Conference: Sharing Knowledge about Language and Environmental Change

该奖项支持一个多学科会议，该会议汇集了来自阿拉斯加三个土著语言社区（Tlingit、Haida和Tsimshian）的参与者，以及土著和非土著学者，以生成支持弹性和跟踪语言可行性的数据。美国国会于1990年通过的《美洲原住民语言法案》承认了美洲原住民语言的独特地位和价值。这三个社区经历了重大的环境和社会变化，每个都幸存了下来；从这些经验中吸取的教训嵌入到语言中，为文化弹性提供了宝贵的见解，并有可能定义新的研究问题。会议的更广泛影响包括增加了让代表性不足的阿拉斯加土著青年参与STEM的机会，促进新的创新研究合作的潜力，以及会议演讲的视频记录，这些视频将在网上公开，以供广泛传播。“分享我们的知识”（SOK）会议为土著语言使用者、学习者和来自人类学、语言学、生态学、气象学和水文学等不同学科的科学家提供了一个互动的场所。SOK鼓励并记录在整个会议期间使用土著语言，包括围绕广泛的参与学科的使用情况。与会者准备用三种语言来研究概念。这些活动与其他倡议（包括美国国家科学基金会的“大创意”）所采用的融合的跨学科方法是一致的。会议上面对面的互动使与会者能够利用他们不同的背景来调查区域社会和环境问题，并为区域和其他土著社区的未来规划提供基于复原力的方法。演示文稿的公开可用性有助于通过刺激阿拉斯加土著语言的使用，以及记录和传播有关阿拉斯加土著民族在面对众多变化时的历史、当前和未来弹性的前沿信息交流，来增强和改进STEM。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a multidisciplinary conference that brings together participants from three Alaska Native language communities (Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian) together with Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics to generate data that supports resilience and tracks language viability. The Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, recognizes the unique status and value of Native American languages. These three communities have experienced significant environmental and social change, and each has survived; with the lessons from these experiences embedded in languages, offering valuable insight into cultural resilience and the potential to define new research questions. Broader impacts of the conference include increased opportunity to engage underrepresented Alaska Native youth in STEM, the potential to foster new and innovative research collaborations, and the video recordings of conference presentations, which will be publicly available online for broad dissemination. The "Sharing Our Knowledge" (SOK) conference provides a venue for interaction between Indigenous language speakers, learners, and scientists from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, linguistics, ecology, meteorology and hydrology. SOK encourages and documents the use of Indigenous languages throughout the conference, including usage surrounding the wide range of participating disciplines. Attendees are primed to examine concepts in the three languages. These activities are in line with convergent, transdisciplinary approaches underlying other initiatives, including the Big Ideas at the National Science Foundation. Face to face interactions at the conference enable participants to draw on their diverse backgrounds to investigate regional social and environmental issues and inform resilience-based approaches for future planning in regional and other Indigenous communities. The public availability of presentations contributes to the enhancement and improvement of STEM by stimulating Alaska Native language use, as well as document, and disseminate cutting-edge exchanges of information concerning historic, current and future resilience among participating Alaska Indigenous nations in the face of numerous changes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.