RCN: Learning from Indigenous community-based researchers engaged in science around the Arctic

该奖项支持由北极地区当地社区的土著学者和研究人员组成的研究协调网络（RCN）。北极社区的科学研究在很大程度上取决于合作，特别是与当地学者和研究人员的合作，其中许多人是北极土著居民。这个RCN的方法强调了当地和土著研究人员在他们的家乡会面的兴趣和需要，并以当地和文化相关的方式设计研究网络活动。这种方法承认当地北极土著居民在科学领域的代表性严重不足，他们的实践和知识也是如此。该RCN认识到这一差异，并将记录北极社区和科学研究人员之间合作和知识联合生产的共享和最佳实践，以便与更广泛的北极科学界分享。RCN指导委员会（SC）成员是来自北极各地社区和组织的土著男女，包括长老。委员会成员还包括访问科学家和学者（土著和非土著），他们与社区研究人员合作。网络SC成员是Shari Fox Gearheard (PI)，科罗拉多大学；Lene Kielsen Holm（联席主任），格陵兰自然资源研究所；亨廷顿咨询公司亨利·亨廷顿（Co- PI）；Juha Feodoroff, Sevettijärvi，芬兰；Veikko Feodoroff， Skolt Sámi芬兰村委会；布鲁斯·福布斯，拉普兰大学；Niore Iqalukjuak, Kangiqtugaapik, Nunavut；David Iqaqrialu, Kangiqtugaapik, Nunavut；angunguaq Josefsen，卡皮西利特，格陵兰；彼得·康斯坦丁诺夫，雅库特，俄罗斯；Evgenii Khudi，亚马尔，俄罗斯；维特斯·尼尔森（Vittus Nielsen），库恩戈克，格陵兰；George Noongwook，萨沃加，阿拉斯加；阿拉斯加巴罗的Margaret Opie；以及拉普兰大学的弗洛里安·斯塔姆勒。这些研究人员在各种背景下工作，包括与访问科学家的合作研究，社区和社区发起的研究和监测项目，以及采用土著知识和西方科学方法的各种规模的项目。该网络的目标是：1)交流网络不同成员的研究专长、经验和方法；2)记录那些成员认为在土著社区进行以社区为基础的研究的“最佳实践”的经验和方法（注意这些在当地，但也要注意这些在不同社区所代表的地方共享）；3)建立便于网络成员在面对面会议之间保持联系、维持网络、欢迎新成员加入的手段（如社交媒体、定期会议）；4)与其他对北极研究和教育中的土著知识和土著领导感兴趣的现有网络和组织合作并交流专业知识，特别是目前的“促进土著研究，科学和技术（FIRST）”RCN和网络成员组织，包括Skolt Sámi村委会和Skolt文化基金会，拉普兰大学北极中心；Piqqusilirivvik因纽特文化学校和努纳武特北极学院，以及Iñupiat遗产中心；5)与研究生、青年和早期职业科学家进行互动，通过他们参加网络会议，在一次主要会议上进行交流，以及网络成员访问班级和学生团体，分享与北极土著社区合作的观点。RCN将在北极地区举办面对面的研讨会，以便网络成员有机会在对他们重要的地方相互联系，为主持人的经历提供背景，并允许访客直接和现场看到主持人的研究对他们和他们的社区意味着什么。项目团队之前的工作表明，直接的社区-社区交流是最大限度地提高知识和文化交流，促进真正的地方领导会议和研究，以自己的方式，使用自己的方法和方法的理想选择。RCN指导委员会成员内部的早期讨论表明，这些方法将包括在土地上旅行、展示和参与传统活动（例如放牧、狩猎、制作工艺品）、分享食物、老年人和青年之间的会议以及非正式和正式的讨论——也就是说，拟议的RCN将不仅仅依赖于标准的科学风格的研讨会或基于桌子的会议。相反，在尊重和学习所访问国家的活动和生活方式的同时，也会进行交流和讨论。

This award supports a Research Coordination Network (RCN) of Indigenous scholars and researchers from local communities across the Arctic. Arctic scientific research in and about communities depends in large part on collaborations, especially with local scholars and researchers, many of who are Arctic Indigenous people. The approach of this RCN stresses the interest and need for local and Indigenous researchers to meet in their homelands and design research network activities in locally and culturally relevant ways. This approach acknowledges that local Arctic Indigenous people are highly underrepresented in science, as are their practices and knowledge. This RCN recognizes this disparity and will document shared and best practices for collaboration and knowledge co-production between Arctic communities and scientific researchers to share with the broader Arctic scientific community. The RCN steering committee (SC) members are Indigenous men and women, including Elders, from communities and organizations across the Arctic. SC members also include visiting scientists and academics (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) who work in collaboration with the community-based researchers. The network SC members are Shari Fox Gearheard (PI), Univ. of Colorado; Lene Kielsen Holm (Co-PI), Greenland Institute of Natural Resources; Henry Huntington (Co- PI), Huntington Consulting; Juha Feodoroff, Sevettijärvi, Finland; Veikko Feodoroff, Skolt Sámi Village Committee, Finland; Bruce Forbes, Univ. of Lapland; Niore Iqalukjuak, Kangiqtugaapik, Nunavut; David Iqaqrialu, Kangiqtugaapik, Nunavut; Angunnguaq Josefsen, Kapisillit, Greenland; Petr Konstantinov, Yakutia, Russia; Evgenii Khudi, Yamal, Russia; Vittus Nielsen, Qoorngoq, Greenland; George Noongwook, Savoonga, Alaska; Margaret Opie, Barrow, Alaska; and Florian Stammler, Univ. of Lapland. These researchers work in a variety of contexts, including collaborative research with visiting scientists, community-based and community-initiated research and monitoring programs, and projects of all sizes that employ both Indigenous knowledge as well as western scientific approaches.The objectives of this network are to:1) Exchange research expertise, experiences, and approaches from the different members of the network;2) Document those experiences and approaches that the members identify as "best practices" for community-based research in Indigenous communities (noting these locally, but also where these are shared across the different communities represented);3) Establish easily accessible means for network members to stay in contact between in-person meetings, sustain the network, and to welcome in new members (e.g. social media, regular meetings);4) Collaborate with and exchange expertise with other existing networks and organizations interested in Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous leadership in Arctic research and education, specifically the current "Facilitating Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST)" RCN and the network member organizations including the Skolt Sámi Village Committee and Skolt Cultural Foundation, the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, Piqqusilirivvik InuitCultural School and Nunavut Arctic College, and the Iñupiat Heritage Center;5) Interact with graduate students, youth, and early-career scientists through their participation in network meetings, exchange at a major conference, and visits by network members to classes and student groups to share perspectives on working with Arctic Indigenous communities. The RCN will hold in-person workshops in Arctic locations so that network members have the opportunity to connect with one another in places that matter to them, giving context to the hosts' experiences and allowing the visitors to see directly and in situ what their hosts' research means to them and their communities. The project team's previous work has demonstrated that direct community-community exchange is ideal for maximizing knowledge and cultural exchange and facilitating true local leadership of meetings and research in their own ways, using their own approaches and methods. Early discussions within the RCN Steering Committee members indicate such approaches will include travel on the land, demonstration of and participation in traditional activities (e.g. herding, hunting, crafts-making), sharing of food, meetings between Elders and youth, and informal and formal discussions - i.e., the proposed RCN will not rely solely on standard scientific-style workshops or table-based meetings. Rather, exchanges and discussions will also happen while doing, and while respecting and learning about activities and ways of life in the homelands visited.