Confluence for Climate Education: Aaniiih Nakoda College Addresses Our Changing Environment

Autor/in	McClain, Liz
Titel	Confluence for Climate Education: Aaniiih Nakoda College Addresses Our Changing Environment
Quelle	In: Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 32 (2021) 3 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-5505
Schlagwörter	Tribally Controlled Education; American Indian Reservations; Minority Serving Institutions; Climate; Change; Weather; Ecology; Natural Resources; Environmental Education; Disease Control; Water Pollution; Nursing Education; Nutrition; Food; Gardening; Indigenous Populations; Adjustment (to Environment); Native Language Instruction; Cultural Maintenance; Middle School Students; Elementary School Students; Natural Disasters; Foreign Countries; Wildlife; Extension Education; Montana; Namibia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Indianerreservat; Klima; Wandel; Wetter; Ökologie; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Gewässerverschmutzung; Pflegepädagogik; Ernährung; Lebensmittel; Gartenarbeit; Sinti und Roma; Native language education; Muttersprachlicher Unterricht; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Ausland; Erweitertes Bildungsangebot
Abstract	Students at Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC) are determined to utilize their education to help combat the looming climate change crisis and the effects it will have on their Fort Belknap community. Children at ANC's White Clay Immersion School have built their own weather station and created an Aaniiin language book on climate change for elementary school children. Meanwhile, students in the college's new four-year degree program in Aaniiih Nakoda ecology are taking a fire class, comparing burned and unburned areas on the Montana prairie with grasslands restoration and climate change in mind. Other students in environmental science are immersed in studying the buffalo pasture, measuring biomass and carrying capacity as the effects of global temperature rise take hold. Elsewhere on the Fort Belknap reservation, allied health and environmental science students are collecting mosquitoes during the summer months to test for the West Nile Virus and to predict outbreaks of the disease in their community, while ANC instructor Dan Kinsey is conducting a long-term monitoring study of organisms found in the Milk River, the community's drinking water source, to assess water health. And the new "Grow Our Own" nursing program is collaborating with the college's farm to stress food security, nutrition, and the benefits of community members establishing their own gardens. All these initiatives are like streams that flow into a much larger river--a confluence that will be needed in order to be proactive and adapt to climate change as Indigenous peoples the world over. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. P.O. Box 720, Mancos, CO 81328. Tel: 888-899-6693; Fax: 970-533-9145; Web site: http://www.tribalcollegejournal.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01