Making Science Accessible to Inuit, Inughuit, and Iñupiat Arctic Indigenous Communities in Their Own Languages

该项目支持获奖书籍《冰的意义：三个北极社区的人和海冰》的伊努皮亚克（阿拉斯加北方）、卡拉阿里苏特（格陵兰西部）和因纽特（加拿大东部）版本。《冰的意义》由来自三个北极国家的40多名因纽特人、因纽特人和伊努皮亚特人投稿，提供了400多页彩色的个人详细故事、原始插图和艺术品、照片和地图，描述了对海冰的深入了解，以及海冰在北极原住民与环境和彼此关系中所起的关键和复杂作用。 该项目将把《冰的意义》翻译成三本新书，每本书都是撰稿人的三种土著语言之一。 土著语言版本对于在阿拉斯加、格陵兰和努纳武特分发这本书至关重要。 提供这本书在Iñupiaq，Kalaallisut和Inuktitut是一个变革性的方法，研究和出版，以及研究推广，使研究更广泛地提供给土著观众。 该项目展示了支持、促进和保护土著语言的价值和重要性，并通过研究和出版直接解决了土著赋权问题。这将是第一次将这种具有科学重要性的书籍翻译成四种北极土著语言，因此，它有可能改变科学家和社区合作的方式，以及如何将重要的科学信息传达给社区. 该项目还确保使用遗产语言的人能够以自己的语言获得对其日常生活至关重要的科学和传统知识。 翻译？冰的意义是什么？翻译成三种北极土著语言将使阿拉斯加、格陵兰和努纳武特的因纽特人、因纽特人和伊努皮亚特人的研究和著作更容易为他们自己的社区所了解。翻译支持支持和保护北极土著语言的日益增长的需求和兴趣，并在整个研究过程中参与北极居民，包括出版，以鼓励参与和进一步领导研究活动。

This project supports Iñupiaq (Northern Alaska), Kalaallisut (Western Greenland) and Inuktitut (Eastern Canada) versions of the award winning book, "The Meaning of Ice: People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities." "The Meaning of Ice," with contributions by over forty Inuit, Inughuit, and Iñupiat from three Arctic countries, offers personal detailed stories, original illustrations and artwork, photos, and maps in over 400 color pages that describe a great depth of knowledge of sea ice and the critical and complex role that sea ice plays in Arctic Native peoples relationships with their environment and with one another. This project will translate "The Meaning of Ice" into three new books, each being one of the three Indigenous languages of the contributors. The Indigenous language versions are critical for distributing the book in Alaska, Greenland, and Nunavut. Offering the book in Iñupiaq, Kalaallisut and Inuktitut is a transformative approach to research and publishing, as well as research outreach, making research more widely available to an Indigenous audience. The project demonstrates the value and importance of supporting, promoting, and preserving Indigenous languages and directly addresses Indigenous empowerment through research and publishing.This will be the first time a book of this scientific importance will be translated into four Arctic indigenous languages, as such it has the potential of transforming the way scientists and communities collaborate and how important scientific information is communicated back to communities. This project also ensures that heritage language speakers will have access to scientific and traditional knowledge critical to their daily lives in their own languages. Translating ?The Meaning of Ice,? into three Arctic indigenous languages will make the research and writings of Inuit, Inughuit, and Iñupiat more accessible to their own communities in Alaska, Greenland, and Nunavut. The translation supports the growing need and interest of supporting and preserving Arctic Indigenous languages and also engages Arctic residents throughout the research process, including publishing, as a way to encourage participation and further leadership in research activities.