Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship – CBC

Jun 20, 2024

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton and Valérie Courtois say Indigenous knowledge needs to be recognized

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton says she wants to understand the very large and the very small, and that’s why she became the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in astrophysics.

Rousseau-Nepton received her PhD in 2017 from Université Laval in Quebec City. She said that at the time she wasn’t aware she was the first Indigenous woman in Canada to do that.

But she said she did realize that ancestral knowledge from her community was missing in the study of the stars.

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