Environmental Justice on Cheyenne River

描述（由申请人提供） 夏延河苏族部落（CRST）已经忍受了超过一个世纪的环境不公正，从附近的堆浸金矿开采的影响，到将保留区的一部分用于空中射击场，再到有目的地淹没超过10万英亩的主要保留地，包括超过8万英亩的肥沃河底土地。该提案的主要目标是在部落成员中培养对突出环境卫生问题的认识和理解，足以推动有组织的环境卫生活动、规划和政策议程，以改善部落成员的健康和保留地的生态。这一目标将通过以下几个紧密相连的具体目标来实现：1）利用基于社会网络的非专业健康顾问模式，培养一批能够就突出的环境健康问题教育和培训其他人的部落成员; 2）利用这些受过环境卫生培训的部落成员，对部落成员的知识、态度、3）开展有组织的多媒体宣传活动，向部落成员宣传环境卫生信息，特别是调查结果;（四）运用参与式行动研究方法，建立一个部落环境卫生咨询委员会，与部落政府进行联络。 这些目标的基础是明确的计划，以留下一套增强的技能和理解，环境健康相关活动的计划，以及积极管理的部落环境健康政策议程的势头，这些都将有很大的可能性在此赠款支持期间之后持续下去。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) has endured greater than a century's worth of environmental injustices, from the effects of nearby heap-leach gold mining, to use of a portion of the reservation for an aerial gunnery range, to the purposeful flooding of over 100,000 acres of prime reservation land, including over 80,000 acres of productive river bottom lands. The primary goal of this proposal is to foster among tribal members awareness and appreciation of prominent environmental health issues sufficient to drive an organized agenda of environmental health activities, planning, and policy, for the betterment of tribal members' health and the ecology of the reservation. This goal will be accomplished through the performance of several tightly linked Specific Aims: 1) to develop, using a social network-based lay health advisor model, a cadre of tribal members that will be able to educate and train others about prominent environmental health issues; 2) to conduct, utilizing these environmental health-trained tribal members, a broad survey of tribal members' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors relating to a range of environmental health issues; 3) to implement an organized multi-media campaign intended to outreach to tribal members and broadcast environmental health information, keying particularly on findings from the survey; and 4) to promote, using participatory action research methods, the development of a tribal environmental health advisory board that will act in a liaison role with tribal government. Underlying these aims are explicit plans to leave in place a set of enhanced skills and understanding, a program of environmental health-related activities, and momentum toward an actively managed tribal environmental health policy agenda, which together will have a high likelihood of being sustained beyond the period of this grant support.