Lakota Land. Mapping culture, history and recreation

轨道1：拉科塔土地-映射文化，历史和娱乐“如果一个人失去了什么，回去仔细寻找它，他会找到它。“（坐牛）。 在这个试点项目中，我们定位拉科塔历史，文化和娱乐区。拉科塔土地包括建立一个地理数据库，建立一个在线交互式地图，支持成立一个委员会来处理敏感网站，并调查土著网站与地理空间特征的联系-如水或山。对于拉科塔土地项目，我们是：a）保护遗址免受破坏; B）促进美国土著公众对地理空间技术的理解; c）培养土著身份; d）为部落决策提供工具; e）教育土著和非土著社区; f）为土著文化/历史研究人员提供数据库; g）为社会经济问题提供替代方案; h）研究地理空间模式以确定其他地点。该项目具有广泛的影响。它已经涉及社区、部落大学预科和本科地球科学教育。志愿者和学生采访社区成员，获取美洲原住民遗址的GPS坐标并绘制地图。 他们还研究了网站的重要性。 该计划帮助保留地居民进入和推进地球科学事业。该项目的智力价值在于提高部落居民对地球科学的理解。我们正在开发记录拉科塔文化遗址的独特程序：一个工作数据库和一个经批准出版的遗址互动在线地图。这张地图是一个让部落和非部落成员熟悉地理空间技术、拉科塔价值观和文化的工具。该项目由国家科学基金会刺激竞争研究实验计划办公室（EPSCoR）共同资助。

Track 1: Lakota Land - Mapping culture, history and recreation"If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it." (Sitting Bull). In this pilot project we locate Lakota historical, cultural and recreational areas. Lakota Land includes establishing a geodatabase, setting up an online interactive map, supporting the formation of a committee to handle sensitive sites, and investigating links of Native sites with geospatial features - such as water or mountains. For the Lakota Land project we are: a) preserving sites from destruction; b) advancing the understanding of geospatial technology among the Native American public; c) fostering Native identity; d) providing a tool for tribal decision making; e) educating Native and non-native communities; f) providing a database for researchers of Native culture/history; g) offering alternatives to socio-economic problems and h) research geospatial patterns to identify additional sites. This project has a broad impact. It already involves the community, tribal pre-college and undergraduate geoscience education. Volunteers and students interview community members and acquire GPS coordinates of Native American sites and map them. They also research the importance of the sites. This program helps reservation residents to enter and advance in geoscience careers. This project has the intellectual merit of increasing the understanding of geoscience by tribal residents. We are developing unique procedures for documenting Lakota cultural sites: a working database and an interactive online map of sites approved for publication. This map is a tool to acquaint tribal and nontribal members with geospatial technology, Lakota values and culture.This project is co-funded by the Office of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) at the National Science Foundation.