Coastal Review Online (2025)
February 12, 2025 - ‘Words matter’: Accepted ‘pocosin’ definition unsupported
Journalist Trista Talton interviews Ryan about his BioScience article on scientific misrepresentation of the Indigenous term, pocosin.
“He surfaced with not only the fact there is no evidence to support the longstanding translation, but a broader lesson about humility in accepting the unknown, vigilance in search of the truth, and ethically and responsibly distinguishing between Western academic knowledge and Indigenous knowledge.”