Incorporating Indigenous Knowledges into Federal Research and Management: Best Practices for Engaging Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples Surrounding Indigenous Knowledges
In this webinar, speakers Sara Kahanamoku and Michael Durglo, Jr. discuss examples of best practices and resources for engaging with Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples surrounding Indigenous Knowledges.
Webinar Date
June 1 at 3 PM ET
Webinar Series Summary
The National CASC hosted a virtual webinar series on "Incorporating Indigenous Knowledges into Federal Research and Management" that discusses how to integrate Indigenous Knowledges (IK) into Federal ecological research and resource management programs. It ran bi-weekly from April 6 to June 1, 2023 and centers Indigenous perspectives to explore ethical, legal, and scientific considerations inherent in working within different knowledge systems and provides guidance and case studies reflecting best practices for collaborating with Tribes and Indigenous communities. Learn more about the series here.
Webinar Summary
In this webinar, speakers Sara Kahanamoku and Michael Durglo, Jr. discuss examples of best practices and resources for engaging with Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples surrounding Indigenous Knowledges.
More about the Speakers
Sara Kahanamoku is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Ulana ʻIke Center of Excellence, focusing on utilizing multiple knowledge systems to track historical climate and ecosystem cycles in Hawaiʻi as part of the Rising Voices, Changing Coasts (RVCC) National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub. RVCC has an overarching goal of facilitating convergence research on coastal hazards in a community context through co-production between social and earth sciences and Indigenous knowledge experts. Sara has conducted meta-research on equity in the process of science, including on racial disparities in funding at the National Science Foundation and on place-based science in Hawaiʻi.
Michael Durglo, Jr. is Department Head of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ (CSKT) Tribal Historic Department and has been a leader in climate change adaptation work for nearly a decade. He facilitated the development of a Flathead Reservation Climate Change Strategic Plan for CSKT, the third Tribe to do so in the United States. Particularly unique has been Michael’s all-inclusive and open approach towards climate planning. He has established monthly meetings of a Climate Change Advisory Committee and welcomes all stakeholders, both tribal and non-tribal. This has opened conversations among multiple jurisdictions, connecting people and adding value to solving the problems that will be faced by the impacts of climate change into the future. In 2016, Michael received the White House Champion of Change award and in 2017, Michael received the Climate Leadership Award for Natural Resources.
Resources
Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies on Indigenous Knowledges
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In this webinar, speakers Sara Kahanamoku and Michael Durglo, Jr. discuss examples of best practices and resources for engaging with Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples surrounding Indigenous Knowledges.
Webinar Date
June 1 at 3 PM ET
Webinar Series Summary
The National CASC hosted a virtual webinar series on "Incorporating Indigenous Knowledges into Federal Research and Management" that discusses how to integrate Indigenous Knowledges (IK) into Federal ecological research and resource management programs. It ran bi-weekly from April 6 to June 1, 2023 and centers Indigenous perspectives to explore ethical, legal, and scientific considerations inherent in working within different knowledge systems and provides guidance and case studies reflecting best practices for collaborating with Tribes and Indigenous communities. Learn more about the series here.
Webinar Summary
In this webinar, speakers Sara Kahanamoku and Michael Durglo, Jr. discuss examples of best practices and resources for engaging with Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples surrounding Indigenous Knowledges.
More about the Speakers
Sara Kahanamoku is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Ulana ʻIke Center of Excellence, focusing on utilizing multiple knowledge systems to track historical climate and ecosystem cycles in Hawaiʻi as part of the Rising Voices, Changing Coasts (RVCC) National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub. RVCC has an overarching goal of facilitating convergence research on coastal hazards in a community context through co-production between social and earth sciences and Indigenous knowledge experts. Sara has conducted meta-research on equity in the process of science, including on racial disparities in funding at the National Science Foundation and on place-based science in Hawaiʻi.
Michael Durglo, Jr. is Department Head of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ (CSKT) Tribal Historic Department and has been a leader in climate change adaptation work for nearly a decade. He facilitated the development of a Flathead Reservation Climate Change Strategic Plan for CSKT, the third Tribe to do so in the United States. Particularly unique has been Michael’s all-inclusive and open approach towards climate planning. He has established monthly meetings of a Climate Change Advisory Committee and welcomes all stakeholders, both tribal and non-tribal. This has opened conversations among multiple jurisdictions, connecting people and adding value to solving the problems that will be faced by the impacts of climate change into the future. In 2016, Michael received the White House Champion of Change award and in 2017, Michael received the Climate Leadership Award for Natural Resources.
Resources
Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies on Indigenous Knowledges
Webinar Recording
Interested in Exploring Our Other Webinars?
Check out previously recorded webinars on our website!