Making Science Accessible to Inuit, Inughuit, and Iñupiat Arctic Indigenous Communities in Their Own Languages

该项目支持Iñupiaq（阿拉斯加北部）、Kalaallisut（格陵兰西部）和因纽特语（加拿大东部）版本的获奖书籍《冰的意义：三个北极社区的人与海冰》。《冰的意义》由来自三个北极国家的40多名因纽特人、因纽特人和Iñupiat贡献，提供了个人详细的故事、原始插图和艺术品、照片和400多张彩色页面的地图，描述了对海冰的深入了解，以及海冰在北极土著人民与环境以及彼此之间的关系中所起的关键和复杂作用。这个项目将把“冰的意义”翻译成三本新书，每本都是作者的三种土著语言之一。土著语言版本对于在阿拉斯加、格陵兰岛和努纳武特地区发行这本书至关重要。以Iñupiaq、Kalaallisut和因纽特语提供这本书是一种变革性的研究和出版方法，也是一种研究推广方法，使土著读者更广泛地获得研究成果。该项目展示了支持、推广和保护土著语言的价值和重要性，并通过研究和出版直接解决土著赋权问题。这将是一本具有如此重要科学意义的书第一次被翻译成四种北极土著语言，因此它有可能改变科学家和社区的合作方式，以及向社区传达科学信息的重要性。该项目还确保遗产语言使用者能够以自己的语言获得对其日常生活至关重要的科学和传统知识。翻译吗?《冰的意义》这将使因纽特人、因纽特人和Iñupiat的研究和著作更容易被他们在阿拉斯加、格陵兰和努纳武特的社区所接受。该翻译支持了支持和保护北极土著语言日益增长的需求和兴趣，并使北极居民参与到包括出版在内的整个研究过程中，以鼓励参与和进一步领导研究活动。

This project supports Iñupiaq (Northern Alaska), Kalaallisut (Western Greenland) and Inuktitut (Eastern Canada) versions of the award winning book, "The Meaning of Ice: People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities." "The Meaning of Ice," with contributions by over forty Inuit, Inughuit, and Iñupiat from three Arctic countries, offers personal detailed stories, original illustrations and artwork, photos, and maps in over 400 color pages that describe a great depth of knowledge of sea ice and the critical and complex role that sea ice plays in Arctic Native peoples relationships with their environment and with one another. This project will translate "The Meaning of Ice" into three new books, each being one of the three Indigenous languages of the contributors. The Indigenous language versions are critical for distributing the book in Alaska, Greenland, and Nunavut. Offering the book in Iñupiaq, Kalaallisut and Inuktitut is a transformative approach to research and publishing, as well as research outreach, making research more widely available to an Indigenous audience. The project demonstrates the value and importance of supporting, promoting, and preserving Indigenous languages and directly addresses Indigenous empowerment through research and publishing.This will be the first time a book of this scientific importance will be translated into four Arctic indigenous languages, as such it has the potential of transforming the way scientists and communities collaborate and how important scientific information is communicated back to communities. This project also ensures that heritage language speakers will have access to scientific and traditional knowledge critical to their daily lives in their own languages. Translating ?The Meaning of Ice,? into three Arctic indigenous languages will make the research and writings of Inuit, Inughuit, and Iñupiat more accessible to their own communities in Alaska, Greenland, and Nunavut. The translation supports the growing need and interest of supporting and preserving Arctic Indigenous languages and also engages Arctic residents throughout the research process, including publishing, as a way to encourage participation and further leadership in research activities.