Poster: How do Indigenous languages shape relationships to environment?

June 1, 2016 | Public Programs, Informal/Formal Connections

Mongolia’s Darhad Valley and regions of Montana can be considered bioregions. A bioregion “encompasses landscapes, natural processes and human elements as equal parts of a whole” (BioRegions.org). Indigenous people live within both regions, and they respectively consider holistic interactions between landscapes, natural processes and humans. Both are faced with change related to developmental pursuits and globalism. Understanding and documenting language and mode of expression is an important way for community members to recognize the value of place and tradition, and how these things are threatened by change. This research works to connect the importance of place through maps and descriptive language.

Document

Teague_AIRA_Poster.pdf

Associated Projects

Informal Science Learning in Ecological Contexts: Science Learning and Native Language Use in Contrasting U.S. and Mongolian Mountain Systems (aka The Yellowstone Altai Sayan Project--YASP)

TEAM MEMBERS

Kendra Teague

Author

Montana State University

Citation

Funders

NSF

Funding Program: IRES, EXP PROG TO STIM COMP RES

Award Number: 1261160

Resource Type: Reference Materials

Discipline: Ecology, forestry, and agriculture | Social science and psychology

Audience: Undergraduate/Graduate Students | General Public | Scientists

Environment Type: Public Programs | Community Outreach Programs | Informal/Formal Connections | Higher Education Programs

Access and Inclusion: Ethnic/Racial | Indigenous and Tribal Communities

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