Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS)

现代世界的自然和建筑环境以复杂的方式相互作用，影响着我们的全球社区。了解这些相互作用及其对社会的影响需要研究人员、社区和组织之间的合作、协调和知识和数据的共享。编织土著知识与科学中心(CBIKS)通过以有效、伦理和新颖的方式将土著知识(IK)与西方科学(WS)相结合，在地方和全球范围内促进关于环境变异性及其对食品和文化系统的影响的知识。基于对CBIKS将与近60个伙伴机构和土著社区开展的30多个地方项目的比较分析，CBIKS制定了一套可推广的结果、工具、培训、协议和最佳做法，以整合知识和工作人员。通过其研究活动，CBIKS团队渴望从根本上改变解决与环境变异性、食品系统和文化遗产保护相关的挑战的方式。CBIKS扩大了科学界代表性不足的群体的参与，主要是通过实现一批土著科学家的参与，他们将领导考古学、地球科学、自然和环境科学领域未来WS和IK综合研究的努力。CBIKS团队在多个研究中心和工作组为众多博士后研究人员、研究生研究助理、本科生研究人员以及土著社区成员和青年研究助理提供指导和研究机会。机构参与包括两个部落学院、四个美洲印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民服务机构、两个西班牙裔服务机构、两个亚裔美国人和美洲原住民太平洋岛民服务机构、一个夏威夷原住民服务机构、一个为非部落机构服务的美国原住民机构，以及许多其他公共和私人研究机构。CBIKS的数据和调查结果通过可公开访问的储存库以及K-12学生和教师、科学家和社区的正式和非正式学习活动广泛传播。CBIKS是根据协商一致的决策以及代际学习和责任的土著模式组织的，有三个主要目标：1)开发一个公共的可供公众访问的储存库，用于存储、组织和共享方法、伦理和指导方针，以有效整合IK和WS系统；2)通过与8个区域中心的57个土著社区合作开展一系列基于地点的研究来实施方法，每个区域中心构成不同的自然环境；3)通过工作组从以地点为基础的研究中收集和提炼数据，目的是促进关于环境变异性、食物系统和文化资源的知识，并提炼综合知识和社会服务研究的方法和伦理指导方针。八个区域研究中心包括来自社会科学、地球科学和环境科学的多个机构的合作伙伴，每个中心都与不同的土著社区合作。七个工作组为所有研究中心提供服务，重点关注与研究开发和设计、数据共享以及科学教育、培训和传播有关的一系列横向主题。通过这种融合和协作的模式，CBIKS不仅可以促进我们对自然世界和人类社会之间相互作用的了解，还可以促进我们如何调查和应对相关的社会挑战。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The natural and built environments of our modern world interact in complex ways that affect our global community. Understanding these interactions and their effects on society requires collaboration, coordination, and sharing of knowledge and data among researchers, communities, and organizations. The Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS) advances knowledge about environmental variability and its effects on food and cultural systems at local and global scales through a focus on combining Indigenous Knowledge (IK) with western science (WS) in effective, ethical, and novel ways. Based on a comparative analysis of over 30 place-based projects to be carried out by CBIKS and nearly 60 partnering institutions and Indigenous communities, CBIKS develops a set of generalizable findings, tools, trainings, protocols, and best practices for integrating IK and WS. Through its research activities, the CBIKS team aspires to fundamentally transform how challenges related to environmental variability, food systems, and cultural heritage conservation are approached. CBIKS broadens the participation of groups underrepresented in science, principally through the realization of a cohort of Indigenous scientists who will lead future efforts in integrated WS and IK research in the areas of archaeology, geosciences, natural, and environmental sciences. The CBIKS team mentors and provides research opportunities for numerous postdoctoral researchers, graduate student research assistants, undergraduate student researchers, and Indigenous community member and youth research assistants, across multiple research hubs and working groups. Institutional engagement includes two tribal colleges, four American Indian and Alaska Native-serving institutions, two Hispanic Serving Institutions, two Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions, a Native Hawaiian Serving institution, a Native American Serving non-tribal institution, and numerous other public and private research institutions. Data and findings from CBIKS are widely disseminated through a publicly accessible repository as well as formal and informal learning activities for K-12 students and teachers, scientists, and communities. CBIKS is organized based on Indigenous models of consensus decision-making and intergenerational learning and responsibility and has three main aims: 1) to develop a common publicly accessible repository for the storage, organization, and sharing of methods, ethics, and guidelines for effective integration of IK and WS systems; 2) to implement methodologies through a series of place-based studies in partnership with 57 Indigenous communities at 8 regional hubs, each constituting a different natural environment; and 3) to aggregate and distill data from the place-based studies through working groups with the objectives of advancing knowledge on environmental variability, food systems, and cultural resources and refining methodologies and ethical guidelines for integrated IK and WS research. Eight regional research hubs include partners from multiple institutions across the social sciences, geosciences, and environmental sciences, and each works in partnership with diverse Indigenous communities. Seven working groups serve all research hubs, focusing on a range of cross-cutting themes related to research development and design, data sharing, and science education, training, and dissemination. Through this convergent and collaborative model, CBIKS can advance not only what we know about interactions between the natural world and human societies, but also how we investigate and address related societal challenges.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.