Workshop on Indigenous Perspectives and Linguistic Practices Relevant to Wellness

记录特定语言社区的语言包括记录长老和传统治疗师关于身体，精神和情感健康的知识。重要的是，记录这些语言实践可以增加对健康和福祉重要因素的科学理解，包括疾病预防和补救措施，治疗实践以及如何过上健康生活的观点。美洲原住民和阿拉斯加原住民社区在将这些社区与非美洲原住民进行比较时，在福祉措施方面存在有据可查的重大差距。该奖项将资助一个研讨会，汇集社区成员和来自不同背景的其他研究人员和专家，探讨围绕幸福的这些问题，并提出他们的发现。阿拉斯加土著社区更好的健康结果通过减少健康不平等服务于国家利益。项目活动将扩大所有年龄段代表性不足的群体对社会科学的参与，包括让高中生和大学生参与，其中一些学生将接受视频记录培训。公众和其他学者可以通过在线分享录音来获得会议演示文稿。自1993年以来，我们一直在举办分享知识的研讨会，汇集了当地和非当地的特林吉特研究人员，向不同的观众展示他们的工作。这些讲习班是学术界和土著社区成员之间的重要桥梁。特林吉特人传统上居住在阿拉斯加沿海地区以及育空地区和不列颠哥伦比亚省的毗连内陆地区，特林吉特语是一种受到严重威胁的语言，有80名流利的第一语言使用者和许多狂热的第二语言学习者。美国国会于1990年通过的《美洲原住民语言法》承认了美洲原住民语言的独特地位和重要性。这些讲习班是一个论坛，有助于制作、分享和记录特林吉特知识和语言。第10届分享我们的知识研讨会将于2017年举行，对福祉的关注将包括对个人和社区的身体，心理，情感，精神和经济福祉的研究报告。讲习班的讨论包括由于殖民化对特林吉特健康的多代影响以及深深嵌入特林吉特语言的健康教义的文件。印象主义地说，对于那些见证了阿拉斯加原住民传统和语言复兴的人来说，这种文化亲和力似乎改善了阿拉斯加原住民的健康状况。讲习班的成果还将为关于土著语言和文化与福祉之间的积极互动的越来越多的文献增添内容。该研讨会将产生广泛的影响，并将提供机会跨越传统的学术界限，包括健康，生物学，传统生态知识，考古学，语言学，博物馆研究，文化人类学，教育，民族历史，艺术，音乐和土著法律。项目成果将在Sealaska Heritage Institute Archive和Alaska State Library Historical Collections Archives存档和访问。

Documenting the language of a given speech community includes recording the knowledge held by elders and traditional healers regarding physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Importantly, documenting these linguistic practices can increase the scientific understanding of factors important to health and wellbeing, including illness preventions and remedies, healing practices, and perspectives on how to live a healthy life. Native American and Alaska Native communities show a well-documented, major gap in wellbeing measures when comparing these communities and non-Native Americans. This award will fund a workshop that brings together community members and other researchers and experts from diverse backgrounds to explore these issues surrounding wellbeing and to present their findings. Better health outcomes for Alaska Native communities serve the national interest by reducing health inequities. Project activities will broaden participation by underrepresented groups of all ages in the social sciences, including involving high school and university students, some of whom will be trained in video documentation. The conference presentations will be available to the general public and other academics by sharing the recordings online. Sharing Our Knowledge workshops have been held since 1993, bringing together Native and non-Native Tlingit researchers to present their work to a diverse audience. These workshops have been an important bridge between academics and indigenous community members. The Tlingit people have traditionally inhabited coastal Alaska and the contiguous interior of Yukon and British Columbia, and Tlingit is a severely threatened language, with 80 fluent first language speakers and many avid second language learners. The Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, enacted into policy the recognition of the unique status and importance of Native American languages. These workshops serve as a forum conducive to the production, sharing and documentation of Tlingit knowledge and language. The 10th Sharing Our Knowledge workshop will occur in 2017 and the focus on wellbeing will encompass research presentations on the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and economic wellbeing for individuals and communities. Workshop discussions include the multi-generational impacts on Tlingit health due to colonization and the documentation of the wellness teachings deeply embedded in the Tlingit language. Impressionistically speaking, for those who have witnessed the renaissance of Alaska Native traditions and languages, such cultural affinities seem to have improved the wellness of Alaska Natives. Workshop results will also add to the growing literature regarding the positive interactions between indigenous languages and cultures and wellbeing. The workshop will have broad impact, and will offer opportunities to cross traditional academic boundaries including health, biology, traditional ecological knowledge, archaeology, linguistics, museum studies, cultural anthropology, education, ethnohistory, art, music, and indigenous law. Project results will be archived and accessible at the Sealaska Heritage Institute Archive and at the Alaska State Library Historical Collections Archives.