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Community Conservation in Practice Workshop for Representatives of Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
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Last Updated on Saturday, 03 October 2009 09:45 Written by Rosemarie McKeon
Participants in the workshop will report on their discussions and experiences during a session at the ISE Congress on “Community Conservation in context: can designations embrace the diversity of global experiences?”
Please note that only indigenous peoples and local community members who are currently involved in conservation projects may apply. Those selected to attend may propose a colleague from an academic, non-government or government organization who can accompany them in the course. The workshop will be delivered in English, but time will be allowed for discussion and translation in other languages as needed.
Workshop participants must be members of the International Society of Ethnobiology and attend the ISE 12th Congress from 9 – 14 May 2010, also held in Tofino. The ISE has announced a limited number of travel bursaries (typically up to $2000 USD per participant) to offset direct expenses (transportation, hotel, meals, registration) for indigenous and local people who are members of the ISE and involved in ethnobiology at the community or grassroots level. Both new and renewing ISE members are eligible. For ISE membership information, please see http://ise.arts.ubc.ca/membership/. The deadline for applying for these bursaries is 16 October 2009.
With financial support from The Christensen Fund (TCF), GDF may award a limited number of bursaries to cover course fees, materials, accommodation and meals during the three days of the workshop. Candidates from focal regions of TCF and GDF will be given priority and are encouraged to apply. More information on the Global Diversity Fund and its focal regions – Mesoamerica, North Africa, Southeast Asia and Southern Africa – is available on www.globaldiversityfund.org Consult www.christensenfund.org for an overview of The Christensen Fund, including its priority areas: Turkey, Iran and Central Asia; Northern Australia and Melanesia; Greater American Southwest and the African Rift Valley.
An on-line application form, instructions and additional workshop information will be available starting 16 October on the GDF Biocultural Diversity Learning Network website http://www.globaldiversityfund.net . The application deadline is 1 December 2009 and successful candidates will be notified by 15 January 2010.
Enquiries may be directed to Erin Smith erin at globaldiversityfund dot org, GDF International Programmes Coordinator.
IMN at SFSU Oct2009 Mtg: Putting the Wintu Indian Tribe of California on the Map
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 September 2009 09:40 Written by Rosemarie McKeon
"Putting the Wintu Indian Tribe of California on the Map"
Anne McTavish
Various scholars, including ethnographers, linguists, and archaeologists, have published maps and descriptions of the Indian tribes in California. However, if the historic data are re-examined using contemporary tools and data sets, there is still much to be learned. Anne McTavish will compare a variety of maps related to the Winnemem Wintu boundaries researched as part of her MA thesis at San Francisco State University.
Here are a few pictures of Anne's map taken at the ESRI Users Conference 2009: http://bit.ly/5FDUo
Click on image for printing PDF poster
REGISTRATION:
http://imnatucb1009.eventbrite.com
If you are unable to attend but would like to be notified of future meetings, please add yourself to: http://bit.ly/1916x2
LOCATION:
HSS 290, Geographic Analysis Teaching Lab, Dept of Geography & Human Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132
The HSS building is on 19th Ave, close to the corner of Holloway Ave.
Parking can be competitive but is available on the street.
Public transportation is available, check with 511 to find the most convenient route from your location.
Looking for car pool from the East Bay? Please check or request ride on UCB discussion board http://groups.google.com/group/indigmap-ucb
BACKGROUND:
Indigenous Mapping Network meetings at UC-Berkeley convene mapping practitioners, indigenous community members, indigenous rights organizations, researchers, and technology professionals to discuss current issues in indigenous mapping.
Our meetings are intended to create a platform for supporting indigenous mapping collaborations and linking communities with emerging technologies.
Mapping approaches can include thought-maps, performance, materials, as well as GIS, web, and mobile phone technologies.
CFP: Native Lands, Climate Change & Environmental Issues, AAG 2010
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Last Updated on Friday, 25 September 2009 09:06 Written by Rosemarie McKeon
"Native Lands, Climate Change and Environmental Issues"
(multiple sessions possible)
2010 Annual Meeting,
Association of American Geographers,
April 14-18, 2010 in Washington, DC
Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group and the Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group.
Climate change and the associated shifting patterns of weather and plant and animal life have enormous impact on Indigenous peoples. Artic peoples and tropical islanders are currently the most significantly affected, but indigenous peoples as a whole—living closer to the land—are more quickly and acutely affected by the environmental issues of climate change.
There has been increasing scholarly involvement on these issues, including several sessions at recent AAG meetings, as well as other conferences around the hemisphere including the past two Tribal College Forums. In addition, there is increasing involvement of Native scholars and students in adapting GIS and other tools for addressing indigenous issues to perform scholarship in culturally appropriate ways.
This session or series of sessions seeks to further our ongoing engagement on this topic, and to showcase the latest scholarship in Geography on these issues. We invites scholars working with Indigenous peoples on climate change and environmental issues--anywhere in the world--to present on their work. Papers on any aspect of this topic will be welcome, as we look to see the range of scholarship being done in this important area.
Please send abstracts or paper ideas to the organizer by October 15. If you have already submitted your abstract, please also send your PIN. You need to register for the conference in order to be included in a session.
AAG abstract submission instructions:
In order to submit an abstract, go the AAG website (http://www.aag.org/), click on '2010 Annual Meeting'. You will then need to 'Register to Attend' for the conference and 'Submit an Abstract'. Once you do, you will receive a PIN number. The organizer will need your PIN to include you in a session. The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 28, 2008.
Douglas Herman
Senior Geographer,
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
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Indigenous Mapping Network at UC Berkeley Sept Mtg Summary
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Last Updated on Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:25 Written by Melissa V. Eitzel
September meeting of the Indigenous Mapping Network at UC Berkeley: Tammie Grant shares her experiences working with tribal colleges and geospatial technologies.
More pictures of event on Flickr
It's the beginning of the new semester at Berkeley and we had a nice turnout this evening. In attendance were some graduate students in Anthropology (specifically, archeology) and in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM), including some first year grads in the latter program as well as some old-timers, and an undergrad from the Native American Studies program here to report back on our meeting to her program's newsletter.
The presentation:
Tammie Grant returns to the Berkeley IMN chapter tonight to show us some of her experiences in working with the Salish Kootenai College in Montana as a tribal college geospatial outreach consultant. She began by reviewing some tribal college history, emphasizing the need for more workforce development on reservations, including specifically jobs in civil engineering, nursing, teaching, natural resource management, and business administration. Though the tribes have sovereignty, they often have poor economic development due to several factors, including isolation, lack of capital, shortage of skilled workers, and the short political cycle of tribal government. Many of the teachers at the college and many of the people doing remote sensing or GIS work are often white; a good goal is to train tribal workers in these jobs and to retain them in the community.
Tammie then illustrated a variety of outreach projects, including student internships at federal agencies such as NASA and USGS, and several examples of student projects sampling water quality on a reservation and using MODIS satellite data to detect fires. She emphasized the importance of involving the teachers at the college in these projects to foster student-teacher relationships and to allow the skills and information to integrate more effectively into the community.
The centerpiece of Tammie's presentation was her nearly completed work in integrating geological Western teaching with oral tradition storytelling from elders. In particular in the Flathead Lake area, there is a rich geological history of folding, faulting, and glacial activity which has been well-studied by the University of Montana, and there is a parallel, rich oral history of the area in both the Salish and Kootenai traditions. The project involved teaching the two side-by-side, with the geologist and the elder taking turns telling the stories of the landscape. The products generated by this project are a DVD of stories told by the elders, a teacher's reference guide containing some of the same information, a Google Earth project showing the sites, stories, and photos, field trips with middle school students and elders, and teacher workshops for this material as well as for ArcGIS.
The discussion:
After a demonstration of some of these products, a lively discussion followed on the issues surrounding the recording of oral history and the social issues that can potentially surround teaching on reservations. Tammie reports that all of the students mentioned above have continued to use geospatial technologies, either on the reservation, at the tribal college, or have gone on to grad school at University of Montana. One attendee from archeology had just completed an educational module for a group in the Southwest, and related parallel concerns about the adoption of new curricula. Another attendee from ESPM related her experiences with Arctic tribes in Canada, where the concerns are social before educational. She cited the importance of getting the kids on the land both to address social and behavioral issues as well as being culturally appropriate. Also discussed was the issue of respectfully using the elders' time, and the organic way in which native storytelling often unfolds – perhaps not resulting in the stories that were originally desired, or at least not immediately. One of the managers of the Geospatial Innovation Facility here at Berkeley related how colleagues of his at the American Natural History Museum have developed tools for including stories and photos in Quantum GIS, an open-source GIS product. The discussions in general seemed fruitful as people from different areas compared notes and learned from others' experiences.
Melissa V. Eitzel, PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Circle of Purpose: Wind of the Wings of the Kundur Anka
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 September 2009 13:42 Written by Tupac Enrique posted by Rosemarie McKeon
Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples
Wind of the Wings of the Kundur Anka
20th Anniversary of the First Continental Encounter of Indigenous Peoples
June 14-16, 2010 in Quito, Ecuador
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