The Return: A Native Environmental Health Story

The Native Tradition, Environment And Community Health (TEACH) Project began in 2008 with a small collaborative grant funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. The Northwest Indian College and the Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health at the University of Washington shared the funding and co-managed the project. In the Western scientific tradition, “Environmental Health” is the study of how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives. One of the goals of the Native TEACH Project was to find out how Native ways of understanding the world and our place in it might lead to a unique understanding of environmental health – a “NATIVE Environmental Health Science.” To do this, we got input from Tribal college students, staff and faculty from 30 Tribal colleges around the U.S. We did this through a combination of talking circles, interviews, and written surveys administered at the Northwest Indian College and at the 2009 American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) student conference in Missoula, MT. When we sifted through the information we gathered, we identified three core themes that seemed to appear over and over: Community, Wellness, and Inter-Relationship. Each of these core themes contains many rich associations and layers. Each theme can best be understood as a circle. Native Environmental Health Science is the study of how these three circles intersect and overlap, and what this means for our actions as individuals and communities. The Return is an original story based on our research findings. With it, we hope to share the essence of what we learned from the rich conversations we had with Tribal college students, staff and faculty. It can be read quietly or aloud, used as a coloring book, or even serve as the spark for a group or classroom discussion. Mostly though, it is meant as a gift back to the many people who helped create it by sharing their time, insights, and wisdom.https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/ias_books/1086/thumbnail.jp

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One of the most visited websites on the internet today is Facebook. Facebook is a social network where you have your own personal profile including status, pictures, and comments. Information for these different areas was added by the users\u27 as well as others. There were no rules regarding who can provide what information (except copyright laws). This caused issues for the users\u27 when the information could be used in a harmful way. Recently it was brought to users\u27 attention that personal information shared on Facebook is no longer private regardless of privacy settings. Companies, police departments, and school officials may have the ability to view your profile and could discriminate against you. Our research was designed to show whether or not participants know that there is no secure information on Facebook. Our survey shows the percentages of people who were aware of these terms and whether they will continue using Facebook in the same manner. Our presentation reviews our findings and discusses the rights that users of any internet site may want to be aware of