RAPID: Ethnobotany of Northwest Alaska: Preserving Traditional Knowledge and Engaging Alaska Native Students in STEM

这是一个小型快速项目，与EHR理事会部落学院和大学方案共同资助，利用2013年和2014年通过长老访谈和参与性民族志收集的大量视频片段和定性数据，制作一系列关于阿拉斯加原住民民族植物学知识的短片。由于全球化的压力影响了阿拉斯加原住民的食物来源和食物选择，这种广博的生态知识面临丧失的危险。通过该项目记录的民族植物学知识是北极长期粮食安全的关键之一。此外，这些电影将支持将科学作为嵌入现实世界中的文化和问题的跨学科知识进行教学。这些方法已经在部落大学项目中展示，以支持STEM学习，这增加了美洲原住民印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民和夏威夷原住民学生在科学方面的成功。上述采访中体现的知识有随着当代长老的逝去而丢失的危险，将制作的电影系列不仅将保留这些知识，还将使对其遗产知识感兴趣的年轻一代阿拉斯加原住民、对获取和分析民族植物学知识感兴趣的科学家以及公众能够接触到这些知识。此外，申请者将通过制作关于这一知识的视频，让阿拉斯加原住民学生参与跨学科科学。尽管视频制作并不是吸引年轻科学家的一种新颖方式，但参与者将使用一组独特的跨学科数据，这些数据来自他们自己的文化。此外，部落学院和大学方案(TCUPS)支持民族植物学方案，将其作为支持部落学院STEM基础设施的一种手段。这些视频将通过美国大陆阿拉斯加乡村学院和部落学院的TCUPS项目向部落学院的学生介绍跨学科的科学方法。此外，这些视频将提供给博物馆，让公众更好地了解阿拉斯加土著知识和传统。

This is a small RAPID project, co-funded with the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program, EHR Directorate, to utilize the extensive video footage and qualitative data collected through Elder interviews and participatory ethnography in 2013 and 2014, for the production of a series of short topic oriented films on the ethnobotanical knowledge of Alaska Native peoples. This extensive ecological knowledge is at risk of loss as the pressures of globalization affect food sources and food choices by Alaska Native peoples. The ethnobotanical knowledge recorded through this project is one key to long-term food security in the Arctic. In addition, the films will support the teaching of science as interdisciplinary knowledge embedded in cultures and issues in the real world. These methods have been shown at Tribal college programs to support STEM learning, which increases the success of Native American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students in science.The knowledge that is embodied in the above mentioned interviews is in danger of being lost with the passing of the current generation of Elders, and the film series that will be produced will not only preserve this knowledge but will also make it accessible to younger generations of Alaska Natives interested in their heritage knowledge, to scientists interested in accessing and analyzing ethnobotanical knowledge, and to the general public. In addition, the applicant will engage Alaska Native students in interdisciplinary science through the production of videos on this knowledge. Although video production is not a novel way to engage young scientists, the participants will be working with a unique set of interdisciplinary data of ethnobotanical information from their own cultures. In addition, the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUPS) has supported ethnobotony programs as a means of supporting STEM infrastructure at Tribal Colleges. These videos will be utilized to introduce interdisciplinary scientific methods to Tribal College students through TCUPS programs at the Rural Colleges of Alaska and Tribal Colleges in the continental U.S. In addition, the videos will be available to museums for the public to gain a better understanding of Alaska Native knowledge and tradition.