Yup'ik Environmental Knowledge Project: Natural and Cultural History of the Bering Sea Coast

为一个项目提供了资金，在这个项目中，白令海四个社区的居民与其他沿海的Yup'ik村庄一起努力实现两个密切相关的目标：1）与年长专家合作，与非土著科学家和年轻社区成员合作，编写关于其独特自然历史和文化地理的全面文件，包括传统地名、天气和冰况、收获模式，以及动植物群落; 2）将育空地区三角洲自然和文化历史的文献资料与南部Yup'ik沿海社区的现有文献资料进行整合和比较，包括胡珀湾和切瓦克、纳尔逊岛社区和下Kuskokwim沿海社区。更好地为未来做好准备。 该项目旨在以社区为基础，建立在多个层面、跨学科和比较性的合作基础上，提供各种视角来了解Yup'ik的环境知识，采用全面的方法来了解白令海沿岸自然和人类历史的动态，并在方法上具有创新性。为当地的教育工作者和学生提供机会，与社会科学家和自然科学家在合作和相互尊重的气氛中一起工作。老年专家和村民代表参与各级研究进程，确保社区成员的声音得到倾听。 项目的主要成果将包括双语和人种学出版物、地理信息系统地名图和白令海海岸的地名网站、科学报告和公开介绍以及长期档案中的会议记录。

Funds are provided for a project in which residents of four Bering Sea communities have joined with other coastal Yup'ik villages to pursue two closely-related goals: 1) to work with elder experts in collaboration with non-Native scientists and younger community members to produce a holistic documentation of their unique natural history and cultural geography, including traditional place names, weather and ice conditions, harvesting patterns, and animal and plant communities; and2) to integrate and compare documentation of Yukon Delta natural and culturalhistory with existing documentation for Yup'ik coastal communities to the south, including Hooper Bay and Chevak, Nelson Island communities, and lowerKuskokwim coastal communities.The project will provide a model for how Native and non-Native experts can worktogether to document the past and, in doing so, better prepare for the future. It is designed to be community-based, built on collaboration at a number of levels, interdisciplinary and comparative, providing a variety of lenses through which to understand Yup'ik environmental knowledge, holistic in its approach to understanding the dynamics of natural and human history on the Bering Sea coast, and methodologically innovative.The project will be an important capacity-building process among community members, providing opportunities for local educators and students to work with social and natural scientists in an atmosphere of collegiality and mutual respect. Elder experts' and village representatives' involvement at every level of the research process ensures that community members' voices will be heard. Major project deliverables will include bilingual and ethnographic publications, GIS place name maps and a place-based website for the Bering Sea coast, scientific reports and public presentations, and meeting transcripts in long-lived archives.