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Alaska at the national anthropology conference 2007

2007 November 28 · 1 Comment

106th AAA (American Anthropological Association) Annual Meeting Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2007 Washington, DC
The abstracts are not on-line, but it may be possible to do an Internet search on the author’s names to find their contact information.
Governing the Harvest: Law and Subsistence Hunting in Alaska
Session Title: Legal Pluralism and Popular Justice
Start Date:
Session Time: -
Type: [...]

Tags: Alaska · anthropology

Readings for analysis and interpretation, sciencing

2007 August 4 · 1 Comment

I acquired the original set of readings through recommendations from my Oxford tutor. I added others from my own experience, especially browsing authentic bookstores and open stack libraries. I combined them into a set for teaching a university course in statistical methods– Readings for quantitative analysis and interpretation in biocultural science, human biology, anthropology
The [...]

Tags: anthropology · resources · sciencing

Native Crafts Health Effects Project

2007 March 4 · 2 Comments

As part of the HazArt project | Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) | we tested the ambient air quality during a firing of black-on-black (reduced) pottery. This field project was a collaboration of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc., Sandia National Laboratory, and Tewa Women United.
The project [...]

Tags: ES&H · HazArt · Pueblo · public involvement · published

Welcome

2006 September 16 · 1 Comment

Bienvenidos, Bula, Haeremai, Camai, Bepuwave
always in process…. ;)

Capacity-building among tribal governments & rural communities
Environment, health, information technology, natural resources, & science
Community-based research & economic development & management
Organizational culture nuclear weapons labs
Complex systems
Cultural resources & museums
Strategic planning, public involvement
Teaching, including community outreach and public interpretation

My [...]

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How to Buy Genuine American Indian Arts and Crafts

2006 March 7 · Leave a Comment

Because I have been concerned with the

Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) -
safety and environmental aspects

[and here, http://13C4.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/pueblo-envtl-concerns-solutions/] of Native crafts and art, and in

Small Business in Western Alaska -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/small-business-in-western-alaska/

selling such crafts to the public for artisans, I have also had to learn [...]

Tags: AI/AN · HazArt

Small Business in Western Alaska

2006 January 11 · 3 Comments

In 2004 I set up this discussion page linked from our regular webpage that I set up through the ISP. The QuickTopic is a wonderfully easier way to update information than a regular webpage or even a blog.—

Views: 403, Unique: 179
Since 1943, the Moravian Book Store has served the peoples of the Yukon Kuskokwim [...]

Tags: Alaska · Eskimo · HazArt · planning · public involvement · rural

Biocultural Dimensions of Environment and Health

2006 January 11 · 5 Comments

Bumsted, M. Pamela, Karen S. Young, and Leon H. Tafoya 1994 Biocultural Dimensions of Health and Environment. In John S. Andrews, Howard Frumkin, Barry L. Johnson, Myron A. Mehlman, Charles Xintaras, and Jeanne A. Bucsela, eds. Hazardous Waste and Public Health: International Congress on the Health Effects of Hazardous Waste. pp. 245-252. Princeton: Princeton Scientific [...]

Tags: ES&H · LANL · New Mexico · Pueblo · communities · public involvement · published · rural

VT-CH-94 Vermont’s Earliest Known Agricultural Experiment Station

2006 January 9 · Leave a Comment

man in the northeast 19:1980 pp. 73-82
M. Pamela Bumsted
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Abstract
The first documented prehistoric corn remains from Vermont, in association with abundant gathered foods, were recovered in 1978 from an early Late Woodland (ca., A.D. 1450) site on the Winooski River intervale in the Champlain Lowland. The presence of both cultivated and gathered foods suggests [...]

Tags: AI/AN · rural

Proposal to expand the capacity of communities to develop healthy families through the VISTA program

2005 December 12 · Leave a Comment

VISTA project for 1997
Excerpts from the successful proposal I wrote for expanding the capacity of communities to develop healthy families through the VISTA program
22 September 1996
TO: Center for National Service, Alaska Office (VISTA)
The three VISTAs in 1996 have made a difference to their communities by their service in solid waste, environmental consciousness, hazardous waste cleanup, [...]

Tags: AI/AN · Alaska · ES&H · planning · public involvement · rural · sanitation · solid waste