Valuing the Indigenous Way of Knowing

My search for the meaning of education especially as it applies to my seven year old son with a "learning difference" and a poor aptitude for academics, has brought me to the doorsteps of the alternative and progressive and unschooling movements.  Through the Alternative Education Resource Education newsletter I discovered this appropriate essay on the limitations of Western knowledge; "The Other Way of Knowing" by Lilian Na'ia Alessa, a descendant of the Salish tribe of British Columbia.  Her writing appears on the site of an equally amazing and appropriate movie titled "Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden", a film that "poses an almost heretical challenge to the long-unquestioned assumption that the western model of education and schooling improves lives wherever it goes."
Please check out the trailer for this important film here:  SD Trailer | Schooling the World