TY - JOUR
T1 - Transforming research and relationships through collaborative tribal-university partnerships on Manoomin (wild rice)
AU - Matson, Laura
AU - Ng, G. H.Crystal
AU - Dockry, Michael
AU - Nyblade, Madeline
AU - King, Hannah Jo
AU - Bellcourt, Mark
AU - Bloomquist, Jeremy
AU - Bunting, Perry
AU - Chapman, Eric
AU - Dalbotten, Diana
AU - Davenport, Mae A.
AU - Diver, Karen
AU - Duquain, McKaylee
AU - Graveen, William (Joe)
AU - Hagsten, Katherine
AU - Hedin, Kari
AU - Howard, Susannah
AU - Howes, Thomas
AU - Johnson, John
AU - Kesner, Shannon
AU - Kojola, Erik
AU - LaBine, Roger
AU - Larkin, Daniel J.
AU - Montano, Melonee
AU - Moore, Seth
AU - Myrbo, Amy
AU - Northbird, Michael
AU - Porter, Meghan
AU - Robinson, Rich
AU - Santelli, Cara M.
AU - Schmitter, Riley
AU - Shimek, Robert
AU - Schuldt, Nancy
AU - Smart, Allison
AU - Strong, Donovan
AU - Torgeson, Joshua
AU - Vogt, Darren
AU - Waheed, Alexander
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Manoomin, the Ojibwe word for wild rice, grows in shallow lakes and streams and provides physical, spiritual, and cultural sustenance as a sacred food and relative for Indigenous peoples across the Great Lakes region of North America. Unfortunately, Manoomin has been declining due to multiple environmental stressors. In 2018, an interdisciplinary group from the University of Minnesota came together with natural resource managers from tribes and inter-tribal organizations to understand Manoomin within its socio-environmental context. This partnership grew despite a history fraught with settler colonial structures of knowledge production and commodification. Based on lessons learned from building this transformational partnership, this paper describes ten tenets for responsible research: 1) Honor Indigenous sovereignty and rights; 2) Address past and present harms; 3) Be on the path together with researchers and Indigenous partners; 4) Recognize, respect, and value Indigenous participation and intellectual labor; 5) Encourage the robust exchange of ideas; 6) Recognize that documents formalizing a relationship are not the whole relationship; 7) Make a plan for identifying and protecting sensitive Indigenous data; 8) Be prepared to navigate institutional obstacles; 9) Seek, support, and collaborate with diverse students; and 10) Actively listen and be open to different ways of engaging with the world. These lessons can serve as tools to form accountable partnerships that enable robust, nuanced, and effective environmental science, policy, and stewardship.
AB - Manoomin, the Ojibwe word for wild rice, grows in shallow lakes and streams and provides physical, spiritual, and cultural sustenance as a sacred food and relative for Indigenous peoples across the Great Lakes region of North America. Unfortunately, Manoomin has been declining due to multiple environmental stressors. In 2018, an interdisciplinary group from the University of Minnesota came together with natural resource managers from tribes and inter-tribal organizations to understand Manoomin within its socio-environmental context. This partnership grew despite a history fraught with settler colonial structures of knowledge production and commodification. Based on lessons learned from building this transformational partnership, this paper describes ten tenets for responsible research: 1) Honor Indigenous sovereignty and rights; 2) Address past and present harms; 3) Be on the path together with researchers and Indigenous partners; 4) Recognize, respect, and value Indigenous participation and intellectual labor; 5) Encourage the robust exchange of ideas; 6) Recognize that documents formalizing a relationship are not the whole relationship; 7) Make a plan for identifying and protecting sensitive Indigenous data; 8) Be prepared to navigate institutional obstacles; 9) Seek, support, and collaborate with diverse students; and 10) Actively listen and be open to different ways of engaging with the world. These lessons can serve as tools to form accountable partnerships that enable robust, nuanced, and effective environmental science, policy, and stewardship.
KW - American Indian
KW - community-engaged research
KW - environmental justice
KW - interdisciplinary
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U2 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.10.010
DO - 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.10.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85094916893
SN - 1462-9011
VL - 115
SP - 108
EP - 115
JO - Environmental Science and Policy
JF - Environmental Science and Policy
ER -