Yup'ik Environmental Knowledge Project: Natural and Cultural History of the Bering Sea Coast

尤皮克环境知识项目：白令海岸的自然和文化历史

• 批准号: 1021496
• 负责人: Ann Fienup-Riordan
• 金额: $ 85.56万
• 依托单位: Calista Elders Council
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1021496&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Yup; ik; Environmental; Knowledge; Project

Funds are provided for a project in which residents of four Bering Sea communities have joined with other coastal Yup'ik villages to pursue two closely-related goals: 1) to work with elder experts in collaboration with non-Native scientists and younger community members to produce a holistic documentation of their unique natural history and cultural geography, including traditional place names, weather and ice conditions, harvesting patterns, and animal and plant communities; and2) to integrate and compare documentation of Yukon Delta natural and culturalhistory with existing documentation for Yup'ik coastal communities to the south, including Hooper Bay and Chevak, Nelson Island communities, and lowerKuskokwim coastal communities.The project will provide a model for how Native and non-Native experts can worktogether to document the past and, in doing so, better prepare for the future. It is designed to be community-based, built on collaboration at a number of levels, interdisciplinary and comparative, providing a variety of lenses through which to understand Yup'ik environmental knowledge, holistic in its approach to understanding the dynamics of natural and human history on the Bering Sea coast, and methodologically innovative.The project will be an important capacity-building process among community members, providing opportunities for local educators and students to work with social and natural scientists in an atmosphere of collegiality and mutual respect. Elder experts' and village representatives' involvement at every level of the research process ensures that community members' voices will be heard. Major project deliverables will include bilingual and ethnographic publications, GIS place name maps and a place-based website for the Bering Sea coast, scientific reports and public presentations, and meeting transcripts in long-lived archives.

为一个项目提供了资金，在该项目中，四个白令海社区的居民与其他沿海尤皮克人村庄一起追求两个密切相关的目标：1)与年长的专家合作，与非土著科学家和年轻的社区成员合作，编制关于其独特的自然历史和文化地理的全面文件，包括传统地名、天气和冰条件、收获模式以及动植物群落；以及2)将育空三角洲自然和文化历史的记录与南部尤皮克沿海社区的现有记录进行整合和比较，包括胡珀湾和切瓦克、纳尔逊岛社区和库斯科维姆低海岸社区。该项目将为土著和非土著专家如何合作记录过去并更好地为未来做准备提供一个模式。该项目以社区为基础，建立在多个层面的合作基础上，具有跨学科和可比性，提供了了解尤皮克环境知识的各种视角，全面了解白令海沿岸自然和人类历史的动态，并在方法上具有创新性。该项目将是社区成员中一个重要的能力建设进程，为当地教育工作者和学生提供机会，在合作和相互尊重的气氛中与社会科学家和自然科学家合作。资深专家和村代表参与研究过程的各个层面，确保社区成员的声音得到倾听。主要项目成果将包括双语和人种学出版物、地理信息系统地名地图和白令海沿岸地名网站、科学报告和公开介绍，以及长期档案中的会议记录。