Indigenous knowledge:a positive challenge?

While recognising the conceptual importance of ‘knowledge integration’ as a factor for policy-making and exemplifying the discussion with the notion of ‘kaupapa Māori’ or the Māori way or agenda, this opinion attempts at underscoring the factor-associated challenges that exact science is currently facing in the process of accommodating the actual research on enormously rich Māori cultural heritage together with the Māori ways of adding value to the process of acquiring universal knowledge.