List of Alaska Native inventors and scientists
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The following list of Alaska Native inventors and scientists begins to document Alaska Natives with deep historical and ecological knowledge about system-wide health, knowledge that in many cases precedes and exceeds discoveries published in the scientific literature.{{Cite journal|last1=Cech|first1=Erin A.|last2=Metz|first2=Anneke|last3=Smith|first3=Jessi L.|last4=deVries|first4=Karen|date=2017-01-04|title=Epistemological Dominance and Social Inequality|journal=Science, Technology, & Human Values|volume=42|issue=5|pages=743–774|doi=10.1177/0162243916687037|s2cid=151488176|issn=0162-2439}}{{Cite journal|last1=Mistry|first1=J.|last2=Berardi|first2=A.|date=2016-06-09|title=Bridging indigenous and scientific knowledge|journal=Science|volume=352|issue=6291|pages=1274–1275|doi=10.1126/science.aaf1160|pmid=27284180|issn=0036-8075|bibcode=2016Sci...352.1274M|s2cid=206646704|url=http://oro.open.ac.uk/55342/3/55342.pdf}}{{Cite journal|last1=Johnson|first1=Jay T.|last2=Howitt|first2=Richard|last3=Cajete|first3=Gregory|last4=Berkes|first4=Fikret|last5=Louis|first5=Renee Pualani|last6=Kliskey|first6=Andrew|date=2015-12-12|title=Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods|journal=Sustainability Science|volume=11|issue=1|pages=1–11|doi=10.1007/s11625-015-0349-x|s2cid=131199874|issn=1862-4065|doi-access=free}}
For more than century, Alaska Native naturalists have entered into collaborative relationships with scientists working in the field or in their communities (International Polar Year (IPY), Native Contributions to Arctic Science,{{Cite journal|last=Brewster|first=Karen|date=1997-01-01|title=Native Contributions To Arctic Science At Barrow, Alaska|journal=Arctic|volume=50|issue=3|doi=10.14430/arctic1109|issn=1923-1245|doi-access=free}} Barrow Arctic Research Center). Their many contributions extend from indigenous ways of knowing to practical and applied inventions needed to subsist from the land, air, and waters (Sharing Knowledge Smithsonian Exhibit).
As institutions strive to decolonize, indigenous-settler relationships remain contentious and marked by structural inequities. In the history of the New World, Old World explorers and settlers often relied for their survival on the knowledge and wisdom of indigenous peoples.{{Cite journal|last1=Brewer|first1=Joseph|last2=Kronk Warner|first2=Elizabeth Ann|date=2015|title=Guarding Against Exploitation: Protecting Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Climate Change|journal=SSRN Working Paper Series|doi=10.2139/ssrn.2567995|issn=1556-5068}}
While this list focuses on individual biographies, there are many other collaborative projects (e.g., Barrow Arctic Research Center). In addition to recognizing community-based participatory research (CBPR), this list credits the organizations that develop and advocate for the education of future indigenous scientists and engineers, young scholars who will increase the number of indigenous scientists and engineers earning degrees. According to a 2019 report from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, fewer than 1% of bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering programs go to American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islanders. These organizations include American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) and Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP), Recruitment and Retention of American Indians into Nursing (RRAIN), and Recruitment and Retention of Alaska Natives into Nursing (RRANN).
Inventors and scientists
Native science organizations
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Resources
- Brower, H., & Brewster, K. (2004). The whales, they give themselves: Conversations with Harry Brower, Sr (No. 4). Univ of Alaska Pr.
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990427135839/http://www.ebenhopson.com/ Eben Hopson Memorial Archives:]}} Celebrate the life and leadership of the late Eben Hopson
- [http://jukebox.uaf.edu/site7/seaice Sea Ice Project Jukebox] (This project includes oral history recordings of residents of northern Alaska talking about sea ice conditions, observations over time, and changes that are occurring. The collection includes archival interviews recorded from 1978 to 1980 as part of a study related to potential offshore oil development, and from 2008-2009 as part of a Geophysics Ph.D. project about sea ice thickness along spring whaling trails offshore of Utqiaġvik (Barrow)).
- Sturm, M. (2002). Fifty More Years below Zero: Tributes and Meditations for the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory's First Half Century.