A new $30 million federally-funded center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will connect Native and western scientists at 8 international hubs and involve 57 Indigenous communities.
A basket of clams studied through Indigenous-based science as part of the new UMass research center.
Center director and anthropologist Sonya Atalay, a member of the Anishinaabe-Ojibwe tribe, said Indigenous tribes are more likely to approach scientific questions through storytelling and respect the priorities and expertise of local communities. Other research will address the impact of climate change on land and water resources, on Indigenous cultural sites and on food systems.
“A lot of what we see is very extractive, literally pulling bodies and materials from the ground,” she said. “Or talking with Native people, recording their knowledge, and then anthropologists, archeologists, scholars claiming it as their own.”
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