Walking in Two Worlds: Engaging the Community and Future Native American Scientists in Environmental Science and Managing Natural Resources on Tribal Lands

行走在两个世界：让社区和未来的美洲原住民科学家参与环境科学和管理部落土地上的自然资源

• 批准号: 1422917
• 负责人: Emi Ito
• 金额: $ 29.69万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1422917&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Walking; Two; Worlds; Engaging; Community

Native Americans exert sovereignty over vast amounts of United States land and water resources, yet are underrepresented in the disciplines that train our nation's future land and water resource managers. Native American resource managers must walk in two worlds, accommodating both traditional and modern methods that may come into conflict. Building on an existing, NSF-funded Manoomin Science Camp, the Walking Two Worlds (W2W) project will employ a systems view of resource management in considering a broad range of resource management issues affecting the region (including its lakes and wetlands, fisheries, forestry, wildlife, and air quality), with the goal of engaging the entire community in environmental and resource management issues of immediate relevance to the community. W2W will incorporate both Western science concerning the physical, chemical, and biological worlds, and traditional environmental knowledge, culture, language, and the judgment of elders. This holistic approach will not only facilitate effective resource management for the community, it will also serve as a 'hook' for engaging students and the community in STEM. A partnership of the Fond du Lac Band (of Lake Superior Chippewa) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) planned collaboratively with the community, W2W will focus on community-inspired, participatory science research projects related to resource management and environmental science. W2W will be facilitated by local teachers, with former participants as mentors, researchers and resource manages as mentors, and UMN faculty as lecturers. W2W recognizes the critical importance of strong STEM education for natural resource management. Using a mixed-methods approach to external evaluation, the project will build knowledge on the contributions of the W2W holistic, systemic approach and theme of community resource management. This will provide the foundation for a future development project that builds a community of place-based learning and community-inspired research projects.

美洲原住民对美国大量的土地和水资源行使主权，但在培养我国未来土地和水资源管理人员的学科中代表性不足。 美洲原住民资源管理者必须在两个世界中行走，适应可能发生冲突的传统和现代方法。 在现有的NSF资助的Manoomin科学营的基础上，行走的两个世界（W2W）项目将采用资源管理的系统观点，考虑影响该地区的广泛资源管理问题（包括湖泊和湿地、渔业、林业、野生动物和空气质量），目标是让整个社区参与与社区直接相关的环境和资源管理问题。W2W将结合西方科学关于物理，化学和生物世界，以及传统的环境知识，文化，语言和长老的判断。这种整体的方法不仅将促进社区的有效资源管理，它也将作为一个“钩”，让学生和社区参与STEM。 作为丰迪拉克乐队（上级齐佩瓦湖）和明尼苏达大学（UMN）与社区合作计划的伙伴关系，W2W将专注于与资源管理和环境科学有关的社区启发性、参与性科学研究项目。W2W将由当地教师促进，前参与者作为导师，研究人员和资源管理人员作为导师，UMN教师作为讲师。 W2W认识到强大的STEM教育对自然资源管理的至关重要性。 该项目采用混合方法进行外部评估，将建立关于W2W整体，系统方法和社区资源管理主题的贡献的知识。这将为未来的发展项目奠定基础，该项目将建立一个以地方为基础的学习和社区启发的研究项目社区。