Tribes & Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Special Issue: Justice, Equity and Diversity in Environmental Education
Guest Editor: R. Justin Hougham, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Advisor: Derek Hoshiko, Community Organizer and Educator on Climate Change and Environmental Equity e are excited to bring our readers this special edition of CLEARING...
River Newe: Creating New Narratives
River Newe: Creating New Narratives On Historic Landscapes In this article we present our work that directly addresses Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) for our tribal youth of the Shoshone-Bannock people. We have reimagined what JEDI means for us...
Justice and Equity in Environmental Education – Special Issue Winter 2022
CLEARING Special Focus Issue: Justice, Equity and Diversity in Environmental Education Guest Editor: R. Justin Hougham, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Advisor: Derek Hoshiko, Community Organizer and Educator on Climate Change and...
Land Acknowledgement Resource Cards
A New Tool: Land Acknowledgment Resource Cards (LARC) by Grace Crowley-Thomas Throughout Canada, New Zealand, and parts of the United States, educators and leaders are engaging in a practice called “land acknowledgment.” Generally, this is a practice that is meant to...
Perspectives: Educating as if Survival Matters
Educating as if Survival Matters Nancy M Trautmann Michael P Gilmore BioScience, Volume 68, Issue 5, 1 May 2018, Pages 324–326, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy026 Published: 22 March 2018 ver the past 40 years, environmental educators throughout the world have...
Exploring Culture and Environment – Pt 1
Canoes and other forms of human powered watercraft have been utilized by human beings all around the world since time immemorial. For this reason, the study of canoes can serve as a gateway to analyze, compare and learn from the world’s cultures and the...
Exploring Culture and Environment – Pt 2
This article is a story of how fourth-grade students in Moscow, Idaho studied the confluence of cultures throughout Idaho’s history by building a canoe, hand-carving paddles, and actively participating in the resurgence of the traditional canoe throughout the Pacific...
Native Voices: Reclaiming a Culture Through the Traditional Canoe
Native Voices: Reclaiming a Culture through the Traditional Canoe Interview with Nathan Piengkham (In conjunction with Blooming Culture: The Canoe as a Vessel for Exploring Cultures) Nathan Piengkham is a member of the Kalispel Tribe and the Executive Director of The...
Ear to the Ground: Gary Dorr
Native Voices: Reclaiming a Culture through the Traditional Canoe Interview with Gary Dorr (In conjunction with Blooming Culture: The Canoe as a Vessel for Exploring Cultures) Gary Dorr is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe and Chairman of The River Warrior Society....
Journey to Understanding: Lessons from a Canoe Curriculum
Tribal teachers set out to help design an integrated curriculum around the canoes of Pacific Northwest Native American tribes. Article by Suzie Boss Click here to view article in PDF format: Canoe Curriculum PDF
Suquamish Basket Marsh: Creating a Living Library
Traditional Ecological Knowledge The Suquamish Basket Marsh: Creating a Living Library An Outdoor Environmental Learning Classroom for the students of Suquamish Elementary School By Melinda West There is a Salish legend passed down by the First Peoples of the Pacific...
Coastal Margin Science and Education
CMOP: The Best Environmental Education Program You've (Probably) Never Heard About . . Coastal Margin Science and Education in the Era of Collaboratories by Vanessa L. Green, Nievita Bueno Watts, Karen Wegner, Michael Thompson, Amy F. Johnson, Tawnya D. Peterson and...
Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Geoscience Education
It Takes a Community to Raise a Scientist: A Case for Community-Inspired Research and Science Education in an Alaskan Native Community By Nievita Bueno Watts and Wendy F. Smythe The quote, "lt takes a village to raise a child," is attributed to African...
Ecological Métissage: Exploring the Third Space in Outdoor and Environmental Education
Ecological Métissage: Exploring the Third Space in Outdoor and Environmental Education By Greg Lowan An increasing number of scholars, both Indigenousi and non-Indigenous, are asking, “Is it possible to blend Western and Indigenous North American ecological...
Students on the Road for Science
Students on the Road for Science For two weeks in July, seven Heritage University students and 11 high school students from White Swan and Yakima traveled more than 2,000 miles for a class that was one part field experience and one part cultural exchange. The course,...
The Power of One
The Power of One by Michael J. Caduto You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi bout five years ago I started to plan for a new book for children, parents and teachers about global climate change. I soon found that there...
Indigenous Response to Global Climate Change
isdom of the Elders is developing a summer field science camp focused on environmental and climate change issues, and career pathway planning in STEM fields. The Wisdom Project is a youth leadership initiative for Native and low-income youth in the greater...
Learning about waterways and First Nation ways
by Sarah E. Smith from A Newsletter of the Salish Coastal Gathering An innovative education program is introducing Squamish First Nation kids and their non-Native classmates to the richness of plant and animal life along the waterways of their lush corner of Coast...
Approaches to Environmental Education by Indigenous Cultures in North America
-From EETAP Resource Library, prepared by Joe E. Heimlich, Ph.D and Sabiha S. Daudi, GRA. April 1996 One of the major goals of environmental education is to prepare a citizenry capable of making informed choices and able to address its environmental concerns through...
Connecting Kids and Caribou
Connecting Kids and Caribou by Sue Steinacher, Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game Teenagers can be a tough audience to impress. The students from northwestern Alaska let it be known they'd seen plenty of caribou, and had been riding in boats and camping all their lives. So...
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