Indigenous vs. European worldviews
As there are different nations around the world, there are also different cultures and worldviews. Therefore, there is a great difference between the worldviews of the Europeans and the worldviews of Native Americans. The reasons for this difference vary starting from the religious beliefs to technological advancement and historical background. However, regardless of the causes, the worldviews of these two significantly distinct groups of people differ immensely. And the differences of these worldviews are discussed further in the paper. 
The major distinction between indigenous and European worldview is that they have a completely opposite approach to science and knowledge. Traditional Europeans and representatives of the “old world” are more focused on one science, and value the depth of knowledge (i.e. how much one knows about one single thing). Indigenous science, on the other hand, focused on knowing the whole first. In other words, Native Americans were much more concerned about the entire universe, its patterns and framework, its flows and processes. After they feel they have a picture of the whole, they could focus on some specific parts. 
While Europeans treat scientists with respect and honor them, according to indigenous science and worldview, those European would not be considered scientists or experts at all. The philosophy behind such an attitude lies in the following concept. Since these people devote so much time to studying one single doctrine (a specific part of the whole), they naturally cannot spend sufficient amount of time to acquire at least decent knowledge about the rest of the whole. Thus, these people are only knowledgeable in one single part of the whole, which is next to useless. According to indigenous worldview, this person should learn from the surrounding populace about what is going on around him or her and try to explore himself and the universe around him, instead of teaching others to focus on one single mite. Knowing one specific part is useless according to indigenous worldview.
Scientists and experts according to indigenous worldview are those people, who have discovered themselves and their beingness, those who are close to the ultimate understanding of the universe and its natural processes. Although it is impossible to conceive all natural processes and flows even for the natives, which they consciously understand and admit, still they try to come as close to this universal experience as possible. 
One of the important features of indigenous science and worldview is the theory of energy. Universe is taken for a huge mixture of energy, which constantly moves, transforms, and flows from one end to the other. Indigenous worldviews claims that one of the highest level a person, a scientist, an expert can achieve is through seeing this flow of energy in the universe. Interestingly, the Europeans have also come up with such ideas only through physics, optics in particular, but not wisdom and self-understanding. And so, while Europeans attempt to catch the wave of light to study it and contribute to optics doctrine, Indigenous worldview supporters try to catch that same wave without any sophisticated instruments, but with their mind, and they do so to understand that specific nature of universe. 
Indigenous worldview is based on the idea that universe is both whole and specific. The major difference between Europeans and Natives is that Europeans try to go understand the specific parts, and then the whole. Indigenous worldview, on the other hand, focuses on understanding everything – the whole – first, and only afterwards on the specific parts, in case it is necessary. Ultimately, indigenous worldview attempts to understand, conceive, and explain the knowledge from without, starting form the grand. However, European worldview approaches knowledge from within, concentrating on a specific part and going deeper into it, and then focusing on the whole.
Bibliography
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