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The Importance of Partnering: The 1st of the Four Principles of the Roadmap

Respect and honor diverse voices and rights when designing priorities, placing emphasis on listening more, giving back, and supporting.

• Support sovereign Nations by advocating for self-directed decision-making on their territories, addressing inequalities in conservation, and elevating the great work already happening on the grasslands.

• Include Traditional Ecological Knowledge, cultural strategies, and generations of experience from Indigenous communities, ranchers, and ejidatarios.

• Recognize policies regarding property rights, proprietary research, and mapping, especially for Indigenous communities and other historically marginalized groups.

Featured Resource

The National CASC is hosting a virtual webinar series on how to integrate Indigenous Knowledges (IK) into Federal ecological research and resource management programs. Speakers will explore what it means to ethically engage with Indigenous Knowledges in resource management and conservation spaces. We will learn from Tribal and Indigenous communities about the frameworks they use to protect and share their knowledges, and from Federal agencies about how they navigate their responsibility to foster respectful, mutually beneficial relationships with knowledge holders. 

Best Practices, Publications, and Case Studies

• Engaging with Indigenuity

• Understanding Landback.org

• Honor Native Land

• Tribal Engagement 101 Series

• Templates For Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers

• Carrying on Traditions that Were Meant to Be Erased

• White House Commits to Elevating Indigenous Knowledge in Federal Policy Decisions

• An Interview with Deb Haaland

• Indigenous Resilience Center Newsletters
  
  Food Soveregnty, Land Stewardship, and Wildlife Management

• Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance

• The Tanka Fund

• Ioway National Park

• Achieving food system resilience & equity in the era of global environmental change

• The Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo

• The Potential of Bison Restoration as an Ecological Approach to Future Tribal Food Sovereignty on the Northern Great Plains

• Bison Case Study: Enhancing the Reintroduction of Plains Bison in Banff National Park Through Cultural Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge

• How Indigenous guardians are reinforcing sovereignty and science on their lands

• Importance of prescribed fire for birds

• Cultural Assessment for the “Enhancing grizzly bear management programs through the inclusion of cultural monitoring and traditional ecological knowledge”

  Documentary Premieres

• The celebrated world premiere of Powerlands, a feature documentary directed by Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso and an amazing team that includes editor Tim Tsai, music by Daniel French of Las Cafeteras, and cinematography by Melisa Cardona, working in close collaboration with human rights organizations and Indigenous communities, including Frontline Defenders, Grupo Yansa, Fuerza Mujeres Wayuu, and Black Mesa Indigenous Support.

• South Dakota's "Our Amazing Grasslands" Series: Featuring the Zuya Sica Ranch

• Meeting in the Center for Northeast Colorado and the Soapstone Natural Area

  On Education and Research

• A Perspective from Frank Lake on “Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereignty: Challenges and Opportunities”

• Indigenous knowledge in conservation science and the process of a two-way research collaboration

• Making a case for the consideration of trust, justice, and power in conservation relationships

• Medicine Wheel Journey: An Autobiographical Approach to Developing an Indigenous-centered Helping Framework

• “Changing the role of non-Indigenous research partners in practice to support Inuit self-determination in research”

• “Native American Student Perspectives of Challenges in Natural Resource Higher Education”

• A Research Publication and Grant Preparation Program for Native American Faculty in STEM ~ Implementation of the Six R’s Indigenous Framework