Environmental Justice on Cheyenne River

描述(由申请人提供) 夏延河苏族部落(CRST)忍受了超过一个世纪的环境不公正，从附近堆浸金矿的影响，到将保留地的一部分用于空中射击靶场，再到故意淹没超过100,000英亩的主要保留地，包括超过80,000英亩的生产性河底土地。这项提议的主要目标是促进部落成员对突出的环境健康问题的认识和认识，足以推动环境健康活动、规划和政策的有组织的议程，以改善部落成员的健康和保留地的生态。这一目标将通过几个紧密联系在一起的具体目标的实现来实现：1)利用基于社交网络的非专业健康顾问模式，发展一支部落成员干部队伍，能够就突出的环境健康问题对其他人进行教育和培训；2)利用这些接受过环境健康培训的部落成员，对部落成员与一系列环境健康问题有关的知识、态度和行为进行广泛调查；3)开展一项有组织的多媒体宣传活动，目的是向部落成员宣传，并广播环境健康信息，重点是调查结果；以及4)利用参与性行动研究方法，促进建立一个部落环境卫生咨询委员会，该委员会将发挥与部落政府的联络作用。 这些目标的基础是明确的计划，以保持一套增强的技能和理解，一个与环境健康相关的活动计划，以及朝着积极管理的部落环境健康政策议程的势头，这些议程加在一起很有可能在这一赠款支持期限之后保持下去。

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.