Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Exploring fire as medicine to revitalize cultural burning in the Upper Midwest

规划：FIRE-PLAN：探索火作为药物，以振兴中西部北部的文化燃烧

• 批准号: 2349282
• 负责人: Ferin Anderson
• 金额: $ 15.92万
• 依托单位: SHAKOPEE MDEWAKANTON SIOUX COMMUNITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2349282&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; FIRE; PLAN; Exploring; fire

This planning project-- Fire as Medicine-- aims to develop training and knowledge development for Indigenous land management practitioners to promote healthy ecosystems and communities. Indigenous people used fire for centuries to not only ensure ample supplies of important resources, such as food and fiber materials, but also to connect with the land. European colonization changed the close connections between Indigenous people and fire. Today, many land management agencies use prescribed fire to achieve several goals, but these efforts often have limited cultural value for Tribal communities. This project first seeks to understand the cultural context of burning in Indigenous lands and what Indigenous peoples aim to achieve in terms of both ecological and cultural objectives. In developing this research the project provides knowledge, training, and resources to conduct culturally-meaningful burns that are safe and effective. Strong connections with the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium and the USDA Agricultural Research Service ensure broad dissemination and use by a large stakeholder community in the region.Many Indigenous communities believe regaining control of fire in their landscapes will help heal damage passed down from generation to generation. This project develops capacity for underrepresented communities in the Upper Midwest to understand and implement cultural burning themselves. Specifically, listening sessions with elders and land managers in Indigenous communities aim to inform what is currently known and practiced with respect to cultural burning across the upper Midwest, and identify barriers, knowledge gaps, and under-developed opportunities that currently limit cultural burning. Following the listening sessions, common themes are presented to a focus group of regional Indigenous stakeholders to identify priorities for education and training to be addressed in subsequent phases of the Fire as Medicine project. The team facilitates the development of an Indigenous model of fire regimes based on Traditional Ecological Knowledge for the prairies and woodlands of the Upper Midwest and adjacent regions in Canada. The project includes under-represented groups in all stages of the project development, implementation, and dissemination.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.

该规划项目——“火作为药物”——旨在为原住民土地管理从业人员提供培训和知识开发，以促进健康的生态系统和社区。几个世纪以来，原住民一直使用火，不仅是为了确保食物和纤维材料等重要资源的充足供应，也是为了与土地建立联系。欧洲殖民改变了原住民与火之间的密切联系。如今，许多土地管理机构使用规定的火灾来实现多个目标，但这些努力对部落社区的文化价值往往有限。该项目首先旨在了解原住民土地焚烧的文化背景以及原住民在生态和文化目标方面想要实现的目标。在开展这项研究的过程中，该项目提供了知识、培训和资源，以进行安全有效的、具有文化意义的烧伤。与 Tallgrass Prairie 和 Oak Savanna 火灾科学联盟以及美国农业部农业研究服务机构的密切联系确保了该地区大型利益相关者社区的广泛传播和使用。许多土著社区相信，重新控制其景观中的火灾将有助于治愈由火灾造成的损失。一代又一代。该项目为中西部北部地区代表性不足的社区培养了理解和实施文化燃烧的能力。具体来说，与原住民社区的长者和土地管理者进行的倾听会议旨在告知中西部地区上游文化燃烧方面目前已知和实践的情况，并找出目前限制文化燃烧的障碍、知识差距和未开发的机会。聆听会议结束后，将向区域土著利益相关者组成的焦点小组提出共同主题，以确定“火药”项目后续阶段要解决的教育和培训优先事项。该团队致力于根据传统生态知识，为加拿大中西部北部和邻近地区的草原和林地开发本土火灾机制模型。该项目在项目开发、实施和传播的各个阶段都包括代表性不足的群体。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。