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Tribal Representation: FGDC Recruiting National Geospatial Advisory Committee Members
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:44 Written by Rosemarie McKeon
See message below regarding search for tribal nominations for the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. Please submit your nominations!!The email below was forwarded with this note : "Perhaps you know of an energetic Native Geo-spatial practitioner that would be an asset to this organization and Native people in this regard?
Greetings all,
With the retirement of Bonnie Gallahan, Federal Geographic Data Committee's Tribal Liaison, I send this email. I recall our path crossing and found our meetings memorable and enriching. I do have a favor to ask each of you. Please help the Federal Geographic Data Committee and the Department of Interior who are seeking nominations for the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. In this case we are specifically seeking Tribal representation.
The
National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), a Federal Advisory
Committee sponsored by the Department of the Interior under the
Federal
Advisory Committee Act, reports to the Chair of the Federal
Geographic Data Committee (the Secretary of the Interior or
designee). The scope and objectives of the NGAC described in the NGAC Charter http://www.fgdc.gov/ngac/national-geospatial-advisory-committee-charter-1.pdf/p> are
summarized as: “The Committee will provide advice and
recommendations
related to management of Federal and national geospatial programs,
the
development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and the
implementation of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-16 and
Executive Order 12906. The Committee will review and comment upon
geospatial policy and management issues and will provide a forum to
convey
views representative of non-federal stakeholders in the geospatial
community.”
Attached
below is the press release announcing the call for nominations. It
is
also posted at:
http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/Department-of-the-Interior-Seeks-
Additional
information about the nomination process is on the website at: http://www.fgdc.gov/ngac/interior-department-seeks-ngac-nominations
Current
members of NGAC are:
http://www.fgdc.gov/ngac/membership
Please
distribute this information.
Your
assistance is appreciated,
Sharon Shin
Denver Federal Center
P.O. Box 25046 Mail Stop 302
Building 810 Room 8000
Denver, Colorado 80225-0946
303-202-4230 fax-303-202-4229
www.fgdc.gov
2010 ESRI International User Conference.- Tribal / Indigenous Program
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Written by David Gadsden ESRI posted by RMcKeon
ESRI 2010 Tribal / Indigenous Session DescriptionsTuesday, July 13, 2010 Room 30-C
Managing Tribal Lands and Resources 8:30-9:45AM
Indigenous Communities face a wide array of pressures both internal and external on their lands and natural resources. This session will focus on the ways Indigenous / Tribal Communities across the country are using GIS technology to define and protect their lands and natural resources.
Presenters: Sandra Gaskell, RPA (Southern Sierra Miwulk Nation) Anthony 'Tony' Hartrich (Quinault Indian Nation)
Presentations: Indigenous Fisheries Historically Managed Along Sierra Nevada Treaty River Miles Sandra Gaskell, RPA, Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation Danette Johnson, GIS, Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation Michael Martin, Ph.D., Merced Flyfishing
Geographic Information System mapping of the culminating inventory of Traditional Cultural Properties of the lineage groups of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation, were overlaid Treaty M, N, and E maps to reveal which existing 1850 river crossings and fishing endeavors were managed along the river miles of
the proposed Treaty areas. Treaty areas had boundaries defined by rivers where fisheries and crossings were affected by dams, ferries, blasting, and hydraulic mining. The historic extent of the seasonal anadromous salmon and steelhead runs in the reaches of the five rivers; the Stanislaus, the Tuolumne, the Merced, Chowchilla, and the Fresno Rivers were recorded with harvesting history compared to the river data of temperatures, gradients, and climate zones of the eco-regions. Information surrounding the lives of indigenous fishermen, the system of family use routes crossing the rivers, and indigenous fishing technology was used at the locations on specific species of fish.
GIS Support for Long-term Sockeye Salmon Habitat Restoration, Quinault River Anthony 'Tony' Hartrich, Quinault Indian Nation
The side channels of the Upper Quinault River have been the traditional spawning habitat for the Quinault Indian Nation's signature sockeye salmon - the Quinault Blueback. Much of this habitat has been lost or degraded. Currently there is a long-term effort underway to restore this habitat, involving the use of engineered logjams. An initial pilot project involving the placment of thirteen of these ELJ's has been put in place at Alder Creek. This presentation seeks to show how GIS has been used to analyze and visualize the geomorphic changes in the Upper Quinault's floodplain and how it is being used to plan further developments.
Realizing the Tribal Enterprise 10:15-11:30A
Tribal GIS programs typically support a wide array of core government business functions ranging from planning, cadastre, natural resource management, cultural resource management, transportation and increasingly, health and economic development. Increasingly Tribal Governments are leveraging enterprise GIS architectures to streamline the flow of information through the tribal government. This session will feature two Tribal GIS Programs who are realizing, and helping define, Enterprise GIS for Tribal Government.
Presenters:
]David Wyatt (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
Beau Barela (Ysleta del Sur Pueblo)
Presentations:
Fundamental Tribal Government role providing efficient services to Tribal Community, David Wyatt, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) Governmental departments are challenged with efficient and accurate services to Tribal members: decision support, permitting, services, applications, land management and departmental collaboration with Federal/State. EBCI developed an enterprise GIS ‘Tribal-Integrated-Geographic-Information-System (IGIS)” to serve as the central repository of geographically related government services/business workflow. GIS is the core component of improving workflows in the services driven economy. The IGIS system supports web-services/based applications for land evaluation, land records management, economic assessment/planning, development review, inspection, management, permitting. IGIS integrates business requirements/evaluation by housing, utilities/engineering, cultural/environmental and integration of business, archeological/environmental/disaster planning and EMS/e911 services. IGIS serves fundamental governmental roles by providing efficient services to Cherokee. IGIS supports:
Transparency
Interagency/inter-government information exchange with USDOI/BIA/BLM and state/local governments
Interagency/inter-government federal/state information exchange with DOI, BIA, BLM, EPA, USACE, USFWS, NHP, reporting requirements for water-quality, wetlands, flood management, environmental permitting, NEPA, sustainable land and natural resource management goals.
Interoperability with Electronic-Document-Management-System(EDMS)
Tribal Enterprise GIS Beau Barela, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo
This presentation gives voice to the use of Enterprise GIS within the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indian Tribe. We will discuss how the Tribe is benefiting from the use of GIS and what software programs/platforms
are being utilized in an effort to effectively disperse GIS data throughout the organization. Our use of ArcInfo, ArcSDE, ArcServer, and Erdas Imagine will be touched upon, hopefully giving ideas to other Tribal governments. We will also discuss some of the creative ways we involved the entire community in the use of GIS and GPS technology.
GIS for Tribal Government 1:30-2:45PM
Like any local government, Tribal governments are faced with many challenges in providing effective community services. GIS is increasingly used in support of many diverse Tribal Government services beyond the traditional project level GIS programs. This session will showcase innovative applications of GIS across Tribal Government.
Presenters:
Danette Johnson (Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation Yosemite, CA)
Grant Timentwa (Muckleshoot Indian Tribe)
Presentations:
Real Time Mapping, Populating Boundaries of Yosemite California Treaties, Danette Johnson, Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation Yosemite, CA Anthony Brochini, Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation Sandra Gaskell, ARC Archaeology
Mapping the historic boundary marker references of each of the congressional maps from the eighteen unratified Treaties of 1851–1852 between the California Indians and the United States government required research to correlate data to visualize their locations. When the congressional treaty maps were compared to remnant family use tracts of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation defined by Stephen Powers (1866), they confirmed the literature review, family oral history, and population data reflecting existing occupation sites of 1850 inhabited inside the proposed Treaty areas. The value of retaining population loci has been beneficial in the preservation of traditional cultural properties found within them. The ethnographic villages confirmed through this activity, aligned resources which were to be depleted by the
inflation of the populations located within the Treaty M, N, and E boundaries when the outlying lands were evacuated to provide space for colonization by the growing Gold Rush California immigrants.
Using the Image Server Extension Grant Timentwa, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe
The Image Server extension for ArcGIS Server allows users to directly publish large image collections without extension preprocessing. The Muckleshoot Tribe is using Image Server to serve imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) for large areas of Western Washington. Image Server has simplified the dissemination of these image sets and has increased the productivity of staff who need quick and easy access to this data. This workshop will discuss tips and tricks for administering Image Server and will have a demo on the capabilities of the extension.
Managing Tribal Lands and Resources II 3:15-4:30PM
Indigenous Communities face a wide array of pressures both internal and external on their lands and natural resources. This session will focus on the ways Indigenous / Tribal Communities across the country are using GIS technology to define and protect their lands and natural resources.
Presenters:
Anne McTavish (SFSU)
Neli Nelson (Organized Village of Kasaan)
Presentations:
Putting Wintu Indian Tribe of California on the Map, Anne McTavish, SFSU
Various scholars, including ethnographers, linguists, and archaeologists, have published maps and descriptions of the Indian tribes in California. C. Hart Merriam and Alfred Kroeber disagreed about the location of the northern boundary of the Wintu. Using contemporary tools and data sets, the historic disagreement was re-examined and the analysis showed there is still much to be learned from the data. Anne McTavish will discuss the methodology used to examine and compare existing historic maps and
create new layers from text. The research was done as part of her Geography MA thesis at San Francisco State University.
OVK Brownfields Program Neli Nelson, Organized Village of Kasaan
The Organized Village of Kasaan (OVK) is located on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. The OVK Brownfields Program has been operating since 2008. Brownfields are “Sites that are underutilized or not in active use, on land that is either contaminated or perceived as contaminated.” The Kasaan Bay Watershed Council has identified 33 possible Brownfields sites in the Kasaan Bay Watershed. These are mine sites and prospects that were active from the early 1900’s through the 1970’s. As part of this ongoing project, a file geodatabase of spatial information in the project area was developed. This database includes cadastral information, imagery, roads, and potential Brownfields sites (among other layers). This presentation will cover the basics of the OVK Brownfields program as well as how the GIS database was developed and then used to create an online interactive mapping application showing project sites as well as photos.
Contact Info:
Please contact David Gadsden or Anne Taylor with any questions.
David Gadsden This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (360) 754-4747 x8911
Anne Taylor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (303) 449-7779 x8276
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