Workshop on Indigenous Perspectives and Linguistic Practices Relevant to Wellness

与健康相关的土著观点和语言实践研讨会

• 批准号: 1747878
• 负责人: Paula Martin
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-15 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747878&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Indigenous; Perspectives; Linguistic; Practices

Documenting the language of a given speech community includes recording the knowledge held by elders and traditional healers regarding physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Importantly, documenting these linguistic practices can increase the scientific understanding of factors important to health and wellbeing, including illness preventions and remedies, healing practices, and perspectives on how to live a healthy life. Native American and Alaska Native communities show a well-documented, major gap in wellbeing measures when comparing these communities and non-Native Americans. This award will fund a workshop that brings together community members and other researchers and experts from diverse backgrounds to explore these issues surrounding wellbeing and to present their findings. Better health outcomes for Alaska Native communities serve the national interest by reducing health inequities. Project activities will broaden participation by underrepresented groups of all ages in the social sciences, including involving high school and university students, some of whom will be trained in video documentation. The conference presentations will be available to the general public and other academics by sharing the recordings online. Sharing Our Knowledge workshops have been held since 1993, bringing together Native and non-Native Tlingit researchers to present their work to a diverse audience. These workshops have been an important bridge between academics and indigenous community members. The Tlingit people have traditionally inhabited coastal Alaska and the contiguous interior of Yukon and British Columbia, and Tlingit is a severely threatened language, with 80 fluent first language speakers and many avid second language learners. The Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, enacted into policy the recognition of the unique status and importance of Native American languages. These workshops serve as a forum conducive to the production, sharing and documentation of Tlingit knowledge and language. The 10th Sharing Our Knowledge workshop will occur in 2017 and the focus on wellbeing will encompass research presentations on the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and economic wellbeing for individuals and communities. Workshop discussions include the multi-generational impacts on Tlingit health due to colonization and the documentation of the wellness teachings deeply embedded in the Tlingit language. Impressionistically speaking, for those who have witnessed the renaissance of Alaska Native traditions and languages, such cultural affinities seem to have improved the wellness of Alaska Natives. Workshop results will also add to the growing literature regarding the positive interactions between indigenous languages and cultures and wellbeing. The workshop will have broad impact, and will offer opportunities to cross traditional academic boundaries including health, biology, traditional ecological knowledge, archaeology, linguistics, museum studies, cultural anthropology, education, ethnohistory, art, music, and indigenous law. Project results will be archived and accessible at the Sealaska Heritage Institute Archive and at the Alaska State Library Historical Collections Archives.

记录一个特定语言社区的语言包括记录长老和传统治疗师关于身体、精神和情感健康的知识。重要的是，记录这些语言实践可以增加对健康和福祉重要因素的科学理解，包括疾病预防和补救，治疗实践以及如何过上健康生活的观点。当将美洲原住民和阿拉斯加原住民社区与非美洲原住民社区进行比较时，这些社区在福利衡量方面显示出充分记录的重大差距。该奖项将资助一个研讨会，该研讨会汇集了来自不同背景的社区成员和其他研究人员和专家，探讨围绕健康的这些问题，并展示他们的发现。改善阿拉斯加土著社区的健康状况有助于减少卫生不平等现象，从而符合国家利益。项目活动将扩大代表人数不足的各年龄段群体对社会科学的参与，包括让高中生和大学生参加，其中一些人将接受录象记录方面的培训。会议报告将通过在线共享录音向公众和其他学者开放。分享我们的知识讲习班自1993年以来一直举办，汇集了土著和非土著特林吉特研究人员，向不同的观众展示他们的工作。这些讲习班是学术界和土著社区成员之间的重要桥梁。特林吉特人传统上居住在阿拉斯加沿海和育空地区和不列颠哥伦比亚省的内陆，特林吉特语是一种严重受到威胁的语言，有80个流利的第一语言使用者和许多热心的第二语言学习者。美国国会于1990年通过了《美洲原住民语言法案》，将承认美洲原住民语言的独特地位和重要性制定为政策。这些讲习班是一个论坛，有助于制作、分享和记录特林吉特知识和语言。第十届“分享我们的知识”研讨会将于2017年举行，重点关注福祉，包括个人和社区的身体、心理、情感、精神和经济福祉的研究报告。研讨会讨论了殖民化对特林吉特健康的几代人影响，以及记录了特林吉特语中根深蒂固的健康教义。从印象上讲，对于那些目睹了阿拉斯加土著传统和语言复兴的人来说，这种文化亲和力似乎改善了阿拉斯加土著人的健康状况。讲习班的成果也将增加关于土著语言和文化与福祉之间积极相互作用的文献。讲习班将产生广泛的影响，并将提供跨越传统学术界限的机会，包括卫生、生物学、传统生态知识、考古学、语言学、博物馆研究、文化人类学、教育、民族历史、艺术、音乐和土著法律。项目结果将在阿拉斯加遗产研究所档案馆和阿拉斯加州州立图书馆历史收藏档案馆存档并可供查阅。

项目成果

Interethnic Marriages and Relationships of the Tlingit Indians in the Russian-American Period and Their Significance

俄美时期特林吉特印第安人的族际婚姻和关系及其意义

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Sexuality & culture
• 作者: Grinëv, Andrei V