Resources

Please check back as our resource links will grow with each speaker

Websites on Research Best Practices

Kawerak's website has several reports and resources on working with Indigenous People - https://kawerak.org/natural-resources/social-science/

IARPC has a "Principles for Conducting Research within the Arctic" - https://www.iarpccollaborations.org/principles.html

Arctic Science Special Issue on Co-Production of Knowledge - https://cdnsciencepub.com/toc/as/6/3

Websites on Alaska Native Cultures

Alaska Native Knowledge Network - http://ankn.uaf.edu/

Information on Indigenous programs at UAF: https://www.uaf.edu/indigenous/

Iñupiat Values research by Asiqłuq Topkok - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287646402_Inupiat_Ilitqusiat_Inner_Views_of_Our_Inupiaq_Values

Websites on Indigenous Knowledge

Resources on methodologies around working with Indigenous People

Margaret Kovach's Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts - https://utorontopress.com/us/indigenous-methodologies-4

Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples: https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/decolonizing-methodologies/

Co-Production of Knowledge Framework for Arctic research poster and recorded talk by Carolina Behe, Inuit Circumpolar Council & Raychelle Daniel, Pew Charitable Trusts & Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, Kawerak - https://kawerak.org/co-production-of-knowledge-in-research-valuing-traditional-knowledge/

Open letter criticizing NSF's Navigating the New Arctic

In March 2020, four Indigenous groups from Western Alaska wrote an open letter criticizing NSF's Navigating the New Arctic - https://kawerak.org/knowledge-sovereignty-and-the-indigenization-of-knowledge-2/

In January 2021, 228 Arctic researchers sent an allyship letter to NSF supporting the letter written by the Indigenous leaders.

Courses and Program at University of Alaska Fairbanks

Center for Cross-Cultural Studies - graduate level courses as part of the Indigenous Studies program - particularly recommend Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) as it is developed specifically for science students. https://catalog.uaf.edu/courses/ccs/

Rural Development - undergraduate and graduate level courses - particularly recommend Community-based Research Methods. https://catalog.uaf.edu/courses/ccs/

Alaska Native Studies - undergraduate level course - https://catalog.uaf.edu/courses/ans/

Alaska Native Languages - Several language groups here https://catalog.uaf.edu/courses/anl/, Iñupiaq courses here https://catalog.uaf.edu/courses/inu/, and Yugtun courses here https://catalog.uaf.edu/courses/yup/.

Tamamta program within the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences - https://www.tamamta.org/

Resources on Data sovereignty

The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance - https://www.gida-global.org/care

Indigenous Data Sovereignty Book - https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/caepr/indigenous-data-sovereignty

Resources on Indigenous Science Education

Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley's Book A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit - http://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=28&r=a%7C44

Ray Barnhardt & Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley (2005) paper with science and Indigenous ways of knowing Venn diagram - http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/Articles/BarnhardtKawagley/Indigenous_Knowledge.html

Collection of Ray Barnhardt & Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley work - https://www.uaf.edu/ankn/

Indigenous-centered STEM Graduate Programs

Tamamta (All of Us): transforming western and Indigenous fisheries and marine sciences together at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF): https://www.tamamta.org/

Indige-FEWSS: Indigenous Food, Energy & Water Security and Sovereignty at University of Arizona: https://energy.arizona.edu/indigefewss

Great Indigenous Authors for Scientists

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer - https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass

Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley's Book A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit - http://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=28&r=a%7C44

Gregory Cajete's Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence - http://clearlightbooks.indiancountrybooks.com/product/native-science-natural-laws-of-interdependence/

Non-Indigenous books on ways of knowing/thinking

Shankar Vedantam's Hidden Brain on the unconscious/subconscious brain - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/183326/the-hidden-brain-by-shankar-vedantam/

Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - https://www.amazon.com/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without/dp/0316010669

Non-Indigenous authors on Indigenous ways of knowing/thinking

Rupert Ross's Dancing with a Ghost - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/391556/dancing-with-a-ghost-by-rupert-ross/9780143054269

Fikret Berkes' Sacred Ecology - https://www.routledge.com/Sacred-Ecology/Berkes/p/book/9781138071490?gclid=Cj0KCQjwjPaCBhDkARIsAISZN7TkUai1o12j-TZ0_1tlqGTnvey7VU27WCKRyUXzYzmXaCIZ670A98YaAi0YEALw_wcB

Karim-Aly S. Kassam's Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic (free pdf) - https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781552382530/

Paul Nadasdy's Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon - https://www.ubcpress.ca/hunters-and-bureaucrats

Indigenous Podcasts

Alaska's Coffee and Quaq Podcast, topics on contemporary Alaska Native culture and life - https://www.coffeeandquaq.com/

All My Relations Podcast, topics on research, higher education, and Indigenous identity - https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/

Allyship Resources

The Guide to Allyship - https://guidetoallyship.com/

Accomplices not Allies - https://www.indigenousaction.org/accomplices-not-allies-abolishing-the-ally-industrial-complex/

Native Movement's Untangling Colonialism and Decolonizing Advocacy Resources - https://www.nativemovement.org/resources

Land Acknowledgement Workshop - https://www.melissashaginoff.com/land-acknowledgment-workshop

Instagram accounts - @nowhitesaviors and @decentertheteacher

Allyship in Arctic Research

IARPC's Diversity & Inclusion Working Group - https://www.iarpccollaborations.org/members/people/teams/3862#sort=recent

Nature's How to include Indigenous Researchers and their knowledge - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00022-1

LaDonna Harris & Jacqueline Wasilewski's Indigeneity, an alternative worldview: four R's (relationship, responsibility, reciprocity, redistribution) vs. two P's (power and profit). Sharing the journey towards conscious evolution - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sres.631