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Expanding Toolkits for Heritage Perpetuation: The Western Apache Ethnography and Geographic Information Science Research Experience for Undergraduates

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  • Karl A. Hoerig

    (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA & White Mountain Apache Tribe, Fort Apache, AZ, USA)

  • John R. Welch

    (Department of Archaeology and School of REM, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada)

  • T. J. Ferguson

    (School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)

  • Gabriella Soto

    (School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)

Abstract

From 2010 to 2013, the White Mountain Apache Tribe and the University of Arizona, with funding from the National Science Foundation, hosted the Western Apache Ethnography and Geographic Information Science Research Experience for Undergraduates. Designed to foster practical skills and scholarly capacities for future resource managers and anthropologists, this field school introduced Apache and non-native undergraduate students to ethnographic field research and GIS tools. Building upon the extensive arrays of geographical, cultural, and historical data that are available for Western Apache territory, field school students engaged in community-based participatory research with Western Apache elders and tribal natural and heritage resource personnel to contribute to the Western Apache tribes' efforts to document their cultural histories, traditional ecological knowledge, local understanding of geography, and issues of historic and contemporary resource management. This essay reviews the program and traces how student alumni have incorporated skills and perspectives gained into their subsequent academic and professional work.

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  • Karl A. Hoerig & John R. Welch & T. J. Ferguson & Gabriella Soto, 2015. "Expanding Toolkits for Heritage Perpetuation: The Western Apache Ethnography and Geographic Information Science Research Experience for Undergraduates," International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), IGI Global, vol. 6(1), pages 59-75, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jagr00:v:6:y:2015:i:1:p:59-75
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