Tribal Ecological Knowledge Workshop (Day 2)

The Tribal Ecological Knowledge (TEK) workshop will explore the contributions that Native American (NA) and Alaskan Native (AN) tribal communities bring to the research enterprise. This workshop will focus on the value of TEK for environmental health sciences (EHS) and biomedical research. The term TEK denotes "traditional knowledge [that], like Western science, is based on accumulation of observation. It is knowledge that is transmitted through generations, practice in how tribes carry out resource use practices, and beliefs about how people fit into ecosystems" (Berkes, 2000). The term is widely used by tribal communities to denote a range of factors affecting Native health from an indigenous perspective. We propose that TEK is a culturally appropriate form of community-engaged research that could benefit biomedical research focused on environmental factors affecting health, and may also be a way to increase trust and mutual respect in tribal-academic partnership. In addition, we believe that TEK is an example of citizen science, which we would like to highlight due to the increased attention to citizen science as a viable element of research among researchers and federal agencies. The workshop goals are to explore ways to improve trust in academic-tribal research; to identify methods for incorporating community-acquired data and local TEK into environmental health and biomedical research studies; to consider ethical approaches for tribal specific data collection; and to b...
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