Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS)

编织土著知识和科学中心 (CBIKS)

• 批准号: 2243258
• 负责人: Sonya Atalay
• 金额: $ 2978.14万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2028-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243258&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; Braiding; Indigenous; Knowledges; Science

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.

现代世界的自然环境和建筑环境以复杂的方式相互作用，影响着我们的全球社会。了解这些相互作用及其对社会的影响需要研究人员、社区和组织之间的协作、协调以及知识和数据的共享。编织土著知识和科学中心 (CBIKS) 通过注重以有效、合乎道德和新颖的方式将土著知识 (IK) 与西方科学 (WS) 相结合，推进有关环境变异性及其对当地和全球范围内的粮食和文化系统的影响的知识。基于对 CBIKS 以及近 60 个合作机构和原住民社区将开展的 30 多个地方项目的比较分析，CBIKS 开发了一套用于整合 IK 和 WS 的通用发现、工具、培训、协议和最佳实践。通过其研究活动，CBIKS 团队渴望从根本上改变应对与环境变化、粮食系统和文化遗产保护相关挑战的方式。 CBIKS 扩大了科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与，主要是通过培养一批土著科学家，他们将领导考古学、地球科学、自然和环境科学领域的综合 WS 和 IK 研究的未来工作。 CBIKS 团队为多个研究中心和工作组的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。机构参与包括两所部落学院、四所美洲印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民服务机构、两所西班牙裔服务机构、两所亚裔美国人和美洲原住民太平洋岛民服务机构、一所夏威夷原住民服务机构、一所美洲原住民服务非部落机构以及许多其他公共和私人研究机构。 CBIKS 的数据和研究结果通过可公开访问的存储库以及 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 是根据共识决策和代际学习和责任的本土模式组织的，具有三个主要目标：1）开发一个公共可公开访问的存储库，用于存储、组织和共享方法、道德和指南，以有效集成 IK 和 WS 系统； 2) 与 8 个区域中心的 57 个原住民社区合作，通过一系列基于地方的研究来实施方法，每个区域中心都有不同的自然环境； 3) 通过工作组汇总和提炼基于地方的研究数据，其目标是增进有关环境变异性、粮食系统和文化资源的知识，并完善 IK 和 WS 综合研究的方法和道德准则。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领域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、培训和传播相关的一系列交叉主题。通过这种聚合和协作模式，CBIKS 不仅可以推进我们对自然世界与人类社会之间相互作用的了解，还可以推进我们如何调查和解决相关的社会挑战。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。