Two top scholars leading a $30 million federally funded effort to “braid” indigenous knowledge into science are ignoring requests for comment to explain exactly what that looks like in practice.
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst last year was awarded a five year, $30 million grant — the largest grant in the school’s history — from the National Science Foundation to establish a new international science and technology center at which researchers would work to address issues related to climate change, biodiversity, and changing food systems.
The Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science will take a “transdisciplinary approach” and use “community-based research” to facilitate “place-based studies and projects” while working with 57 indigenous communities at eight international hubs across much of the English-speaking world, according to a 2023 article from the university.
Sonya Atalay, the provost professor of anthropology at UMass Amherst and director of the center, and Jon Woodruff, one of Atalay’s co-principal investigators and a professor of geographic and climate sciences at UMass Amherst, have not responded in recent weeks to The College Fix’s requests for comments. […]
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