A Study in the Integration of Western Knowledge and Native American Knowledge Bases

作为加强非正式环境中学习的整体战略的一部分，推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划为各种环境中使用的创新资源提供资金。这项拟议的努力包括几个美洲土著尤特部落、历史科罗拉多自然历史博物馆和考古学领域的科学家的广泛参与，以调查和整合传统生态知识和当代西方科学。该项目将保存来自科罗拉多和犹他州的尤特人的知识，包括传统技术、民族植物学、工程学和数学。该项目的成果将为类似社区的教育工作提供信息。该项目将建立在历史科罗拉多（HC）、南尤特印第安部落、尤特山尤特部落和尤特印第安部落、尤因塔乌赖保留地和多明格斯考古研究组（DARG）之间的长期合作基础上。HC将实施和评估区域非正式学习合作，重点是通过部落计划，当地历史博物馆和教育网络为128，000多名学习者提供Ute传统和当代STEM知识。该项目将促进对综合知识的理解以及Ute人作为STEM学习者和实践者的作用。这个非正式科学学习项目将增加农村社区的终身STEM学习，并为部落、历史博物馆和科学家之间的合作创造一个可复制的模式。

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program funds innovative resources for use in a variety of settings. This proposed effort embraces broad participation by several Native American Ute tribes, the History Colorado Museum of Natural History, and scientists in the field of archaeology to investigate and integrate traditional ecological knowledge and contemporary Western science. The project will preserve knowledge from the Ute peoples of Colorado and Utah, including traditional technology, ethnobotany, engineering and math. Results from this project will inform educational efforts in similar communities.This project will build on the long-standing collaborations between History Colorado (HC), the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and Ute Indian Tribe, Uintah & Ouray Reservation, and the Dominguez Archaeological Research Group DARG). HC will implement and evaluate a regional informal learning collaboration focused on Ute traditional and contemporary STEM knowledge serving over 128,000 learners through tribal programs, local history museums and educational networks. This project will advance the understanding of integrated knowledge and the role of Ute people as STEM learners and practitioners. This Informal Science Learning project will increase lifelong STEM learning in rural communities and create a replicable model for collaboration among tribes, history museums, and scientists.