The weaving power of Indigenous storytelling - personal reflections on the impact of COVID-19 and the response of Indigenous communities

The academy has always been a complex place for Indigenous scholars. In first entering as students and graduates in the mid-1960s, the growing number of those choosing an academic pathway and career is slowly, yet fundamentally, altering the way research is undertaken and teaching and learning is done. From seeking to find spaces within the Western disciplines with a goal of "Indigenising" the curriculum and through modules on "Indigenous studies," there is a growing move towards the inclusion of traditional knowledges, not just as a way to fit in with Western sciences, but as a knowledge system in their own right.