Walking in Two Worlds: Engaging the Community and Future Native American Scientists in Environmental Science and Managing Natural Resources on Tribal Lands

美洲原住民对美国的大量土地和水资源拥有主权，但在培训我国未来土地和水资源管理人员的学科中代表性不足。美国本土资源经理必须在两个世界中行走，既要适应传统方法，也要适应现代方法，因为它们可能会发生冲突。行走的两个世界(W2W)项目将在现有的NSF资助的Manoomin Science Camp的基础上，采用系统的资源管理观点来考虑影响该地区的广泛资源管理问题(包括湖泊和湿地、渔业、林业、野生动物和空气质量)，目的是让整个社区参与到与社区直接相关的环境和资源管理问题中。W2W将融合有关物理、化学和生物世界的西方科学，以及传统的环境知识、文化、语言和长辈的判断。这种全面的方法不仅将促进社区有效的资源管理，还将成为吸引学生和社区参与STEM的“钩子”。作为Fond Du Lac Band(苏必利尔奇佩瓦湖)和明尼苏达大学(UMN)与社区合作计划的伙伴关系，W2W将专注于与资源管理和环境科学相关的社区启发、参与性科学研究项目。W2W将由当地教师推动，以前的参与者担任导师，研究人员和资源管理人员担任导师，UMN教师担任讲师。W2W认识到强有力的STEM教育对自然资源管理的关键重要性。使用混合方法进行外部评估，该项目将建立关于世界第二次世界大战的整体、系统的方法和社区资源管理主题的贡献的知识。这将为未来的发展项目奠定基础，该项目将建立一个以地点为基础的学习和社区启发的研究项目的社区。

Native Americans exert sovereignty over vast amounts of United States land and water resources, yet are underrepresented in the disciplines that train our nation's future land and water resource managers. Native American resource managers must walk in two worlds, accommodating both traditional and modern methods that may come into conflict. Building on an existing, NSF-funded Manoomin Science Camp, the Walking Two Worlds (W2W) project will employ a systems view of resource management in considering a broad range of resource management issues affecting the region (including its lakes and wetlands, fisheries, forestry, wildlife, and air quality), with the goal of engaging the entire community in environmental and resource management issues of immediate relevance to the community. W2W will incorporate both Western science concerning the physical, chemical, and biological worlds, and traditional environmental knowledge, culture, language, and the judgment of elders. This holistic approach will not only facilitate effective resource management for the community, it will also serve as a 'hook' for engaging students and the community in STEM. A partnership of the Fond du Lac Band (of Lake Superior Chippewa) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) planned collaboratively with the community, W2W will focus on community-inspired, participatory science research projects related to resource management and environmental science. W2W will be facilitated by local teachers, with former participants as mentors, researchers and resource manages as mentors, and UMN faculty as lecturers. W2W recognizes the critical importance of strong STEM education for natural resource management. Using a mixed-methods approach to external evaluation, the project will build knowledge on the contributions of the W2W holistic, systemic approach and theme of community resource management. This will provide the foundation for a future development project that builds a community of place-based learning and community-inspired research projects.