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Unless she is in a field where she is studying natives, there is no such thing as a native scientist. Science is science and most scientific fields are both standardized and very international, so background is irrelevant. A native American scientist is as much a scientist as one from say France or Japan. What she is talking about is things like folk wisdom and traditional medicine.
I agree with the guy's response in that its different ways of approaching the world and she seems really racist and desperate to try to make them the same thing. Even natives know that what they do is different and antiquated, but to them if it works it works. Traditional medicine for example is still very big in East Asia and it is treated differently than "western" medicine. In places like Taiwan traditional doctors still have to study in medical school and get licenced before they can open a practice. They are not seen as lesser than doctors that specialize in western medicine, just an alternative. Everyone I have talked to about this always has a story were they or someone they know had a problem that the western-style doctor could not treat, but the traditional one cured just fine. It's not the most high-tech or advance approach, but tried and true herbal remedies can sometimes do the trick. After all there is a reason why they have been doing that way for hundreds of years.
