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

这是一个小型RAPID项目，与EHR理事会部落学院和大学项目共同资助，利用2013年和2014年通过老年人访谈和参与式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知识的主题短片。随着全球化的压力影响到阿拉斯加原住民的食物来源和食物选择，这种广泛的生态知识正面临丧失的风险。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，这些电影将支持科学作为根植于文化和现实世界问题中的跨学科知识的教学。这些方法已经在部落大学项目中得到展示，以支持STEM学习，这增加了美国印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民和夏威夷原住民学生在科学方面的成功。上述采访中所体现的知识正面临着随着这一代长者的逝去而消失的危险，即将制作的系列电影不仅将保存这些知识，而且还将使对其遗产知识感兴趣的阿拉斯加原住民的年轻一代，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，申请人将通过制作有关这些知识的视频，吸引阿拉斯加原住民学生参与跨学科科学。虽然视频制作并不是吸引年轻科学家的新颖方式，但参与者将使用一套独特的跨学科民族植物学数据，这些数据来自他们自己的文化。此外，部落学院和大学计划（TCUPS）支持民族项目，作为支持部落学院STEM基础设施的一种手段。这些视频将被用来通过阿拉斯加农村学院和美国大陆部落学院的TCUPS项目向部落学院的学生介绍跨学科的科学方法。此外，这些视频将被提供给博物馆，让公众更好地了解阿拉斯加原住民的知识和传统。

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.