Subsistence and Outmigration: Connecting Intergenerational Dialogues between Alaska Native Elders and Youth

生存与移民：连接阿拉斯加原住民长者与青年之间的代际对话

• 批准号: 1834685
• 负责人: Linda Green
• 金额: $ 29.58万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834685&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Subsistence; Outmigration; Connecting; Intergenerational; Dialogues

Over the past century, Indigenous populations of Alaska and the circumpolar North have experienced major socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes. Various developments in recent decades, including environmental shifts and demographic flux, have accelerated the ongoing transformation of the circumstances of rural Indigenous people's lives. While these changes have undoubtedly impacted the lives and livelihoods of all Native peoples, they are experienced differently by geography and culture, and influenced by generational and economic factors. Some of the more visible impacts of these developments are changes in subsistence participation and production and the out-migration of Indigenous youth and young adults from their home communities. To compound matters, such phenomena are occurring within a broader context of environmental change that is impacting the sustainability of rural Native communities in the Arctic.The research project seeks to better understand the consequences of these complex processes from the perspective of Alaska Native people across generations in two different regions of Alaska, the Yup'ik of the Yukon-Kuskowkim Delta and the Gwich'in of the Yukon Flats. The two distinct geographical areas and cultural groups allow the research team to capture some of the historical and contemporary complexity of Alaska, given that Alaska Natives are a diverse community with each cultural group possessing its own unique culture, language, history, and economic resource base. Specifically, the investigators will study the range of experiences that both elders and youth face and how they make sense of their past as well as the contemporary shifts in rural lives and livelihoods. Issues of language, tradition, and kinship ties are crucial facets for exploring such dynamics. The researchers will incorporate methods of participant observation, community-based focus groups and individual interviews to capture the central issues and comparative understandings relating to subsistence and out-migration in each of the four communities that are the focus of the study. The research will result in a broad in-depth understanding of issues facing rural Alaska Natives today from their own perspectives. The collaboration between elders and youth will contribute to community discussions on the social, cultural, political and economic issues that each ethnic and ecological area faces, highlighting both the convergences and divergences of policies and practices at the local level. A substantial component of the grant work involves including Native students in cutting-edge research, including training in anthropological and audio-visual methods.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.

在过去的一个世纪中，阿拉斯加和北部北部的土著人口经历了重大的社会经济，环境和文化变化。近几十年来，包括环境变化和人口泛滥在内的各种发展都加快了农村土著人民生活环境的持续转变。尽管这些变化无疑影响了所有土著人民的生活和生计，但它们的地理和文化经历不同，受世代相传和经济因素的影响。这些事态发展的一些更明显的影响是生存参与和生产的变化以及土著青年和年轻人从家庭社区的移民。 To compound matters, such phenomena are occurring within a broader context of environmental change that is impacting the sustainability of rural Native communities in the Arctic.The research project seeks to better understand the consequences of these complex processes from the perspective of Alaska Native people across generations in two different regions of Alaska, the Yup'ik of the Yukon-Kuskowkim Delta and the Gwich'in of the Yukon Flats.鉴于阿拉斯加的本地人是一个多元化的社区，每个文化群体都拥有自己独特的文化，语言，历史和经济资源基础，因此研究团队允许研究团队捕捉阿拉斯加的一些历史和当代复杂性的两个不同的地理领域和文化群体。具体而言，调查人员将研究长者和青年面临的各种经历，以及他们如何理解自己的过去以及当代的农村生活和生计。语言，传统和亲属关系问题是探索这种动态的关键方面。研究人员将结合参与者观察，基于社区的焦点小组和个人访谈的方法，以捕获与研究重点的四个社区中每个社区中每个社区中与生存和迁移有关的比较理解。这项研究将使今天对阿拉斯加农村地区面临的问题有深入的了解。长者与青年之间的合作将为每个种族和生态领域所面临的社会，文化，政治和经济问题的社区讨论做出贡献，从而强调了地方一级的政策和实践的融合和分歧。赠款工作的重要组成部分涉及包括本地学生进行最先进的研究，包括人类学和视听方法的培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来支持的。