Developing Partnerships Among Tribes, Geoscientists, and the National Park Service to Advance Informal Geoscience Learning at Grand Canyon

发展部落、地球科学家和国家公园管理局之间的合作伙伴关系，以推进大峡谷的非正式地球科学学习

• 批准号: 2314229
• 负责人: Steven Semken
• 金额: $ 14.78万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314229&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Partnerships; Among; Tribes; Geoscientists

The Grand Canyon region is the ancestral homeland of eleven Indigenous Nations, the Traditionally Associated Tribes of Grand Canyon, who possess rich land-based expert knowledge of Earth processes and features. Grand Canyon National Park was established in 1919 and has become a globally renowned geoheritage site. Within the Park, geoscience resources and programs support millions of visitors each year to explore the immensity of geologic time and the geologic history through the landscapes and rocks. However, the Indigenous knowledge of the Traditionally Associated Tribes has historically been marginalized and excluded from geoscience education at the Park. This Partnership Development & Planning project seeks to foster respectful, reciprocal, and lasting partnerships at Grand Canyon among members of the Traditionally Associated Tribes, the Grand Canyon Trust, Interpretive Park Rangers, and Grand Canyon geoscientists. With multiple layers of Tribal oversight, the project will use the four Rs of Indigenous research (reciprocity, relevance, respect, and responsibility) and a Dine analytical model to support relationship and trust building activities (e.g., site visits, story circles, a workshop) and co-development. The group will work toward addressing and helping to remedy the historic exclusion of Indigenous presence and Indigenous knowledges at Grand Canyon, explore opportunities for mutually beneficial collaborations and future AISL projects, and draft recommendations for respectfully Indigenizing future interpretive resources and programs. The project will be led by a Steering Committee comprised of a Tribal Council (all of whom are members of the Traditionally Associated Tribes of Grand Canyon), university geoscientists (some of whom are members of the Traditionally Associated Tribes of Grand Canyon) and National Park Service staff. Tribal Council members and other members of the Steering Committee have long-standing relationships as well as backgrounds or interest in geoscience. To ensure that the partnership remains mutually beneficial and fully accountable, and yields value to all partners, the project will center the four Rs of Indigenous research. Relationships will be fostered among members of the Tribes, geoscientists, and the National Park Service through gatherings and mutual engagement in geoscience activities at culturally and scientifically important places in and around Grand Canyon and the Park, in Tribal communities if requested, and at times virtually. The Steering Committee will use the Dine model of nitsahakees (critical thinking), nahat'a (planning), iina (implementation in life); and siihasin (reflection and iteration to renew the cycle) to guide the co-design process. Ultimately, the group will co-design and co-author common and mutually beneficial goals related to informal geoscience learning at Grand Canyon, ensure educational benefits expand to local Native youth, and draft recommendations for respectfully Indigenizing future interpretive resources and programs at the Park. Insights and recommendations will be developed while adhering to the CARE Principles of Indigenous Data Governance, which hold that all Indigenous knowledges remain the credited intellectual property of the appropriate Tribes, who hold control over all uses. When approved by the Tribes, the projects' recommendations will be shared with the informal STEM learning community, including other National Parks. External evaluation will use recognized Indigenous criteria to iteratively assess and inform the project's: 1) ability to establish ethical, respectful, reciprocal partnership(s) among practitioners, community members, and researchers; 2) conceptions of new decolonized, place-based, culturally inclusive plan(s) for informal geoscience education at Grand Canyon; and 3) potential for its approaches and recommendations to extend to other partnerships, Parks, and geoheritage areas. This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which supports projects that: (a) contribute to research and practice that considers informal STEM learning's role in equity and belonging in STEM; (b) promote personal and educational success in STEM; (c) advance public engagement in scientific discovery; (d) foster interest in STEM careers; (e) create and enhance the theoretical and empirical foundations for effective informal STEM learning; (f) improve community vibrancy; and/or (g) enhance science communication and the public's engagement in and understanding of STEM and STEM processes.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.

大峡谷地区是11个土著国家的祖先祖国，这是大峡谷传统上关联的部落，他们拥有丰富的地球过程和特征的陆基专家知识。大峡谷国家公园成立于1919年，已成为全球著名的地理遗址。在公园内，地球科学资源和计划每年都会支持数百万游客，以通过景观和岩石探索地质时间和地质历史的巨大历史。但是，历史上对传统相关部落的土著知识被边缘化并被排除在公园的地球科学教育之外。该合作伙伴关系开发与计划项目旨在在传统相关部落的成员，大峡谷信托基金会，解释性公园游骑兵和大峡谷地球科学家之间在大峡谷建立尊重，相互和持久的伙伴关系。通过多层部落的监督，该项目将使用四个土著研究（互惠，相关性，尊重和责任）和用餐分析模型来支持关系和信任建设活动（例如，现场访问，故事圈，讲习班）和共同开发。该小组将努力解决并帮助纠正大峡谷的土著存在和土著知识的历史性排除，探索互惠互利合作和未来AISL项目的机会，并起草建议将未来的解释性资源和计划尊重的建议。该项目将由一个由部落委员会组成的指导委员会（所有人都是大峡谷传统相关部落的成员），大学地球科学家（其中一些是大峡谷传统相关部落的成员）和国家公园服务人员。指导委员会的部落委员会成员和其他成员与地球科学有长期的关系以及背景或兴趣。为了确保伙伴关系仍然是互惠互利和完全负责的，并对所有合作伙伴产生价值，该项目将集中到本地研究的四个rs。通过聚会和在大峡谷和公园周围的地球科学活动，如果需要，有时甚至几乎实际上，将在部落，地球科学家和国家公园服务部门之间建立关系，并在部落社区中及其周围的地球科学活动相互参与。指导委员会将使用Nitsahakees（批判性思维）的用餐模型，Nahat'a（计划），IINA（生命实施）； Siihasin（反射和迭代以更新周期）指导共同设计过程。最终，该小组将共同设计与合着者共同的和互惠互利的目标，与大峡谷非正式地球科学学习有关，确保教育福利扩大到当地的土著青年，并草拟了公园的未来解释性资源和计划的建议。在遵守土著数据治理的护理原则的同时，将开发洞察力和建议，该原则认为，所有土著知识仍然是适当部落的信誉良好的知识产权，他们对所有用途都有控制权。在获得部落的批准后，项目的建议将与非正式的STEM学习社区（包括其他国家公园）共享。外部评估将使用公认的土著标准进行迭代评估并告知该项目的：1）在从业者，社区成员和研究人员中建立道德，尊重，互惠伙伴关系的能力； 2）大峡谷非正式地球科学教育的新的非殖民，基于地点的，具有文化包容性的计划的概念； 3）其方法和建议可能扩展到其他伙伴关系，公园和地理区域。该项目由前进的非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划提供资金，该计划支持：（a）有助于研究和实践的项目，该项目考虑了非正式的STEM学习在股权中的作用，并且属于STEM； （b）在STEM中促进个人和教育成功； （c）提高公众参与科学发现； （d）促进对STEM职业的兴趣； （e）为有效的非正式STEM学习创建和增强理论和经验基础； （f）改善社区活力；和/或（g）增强科学传播以及公众对STEM和STEM过程的参与和理解。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。