Patricia CochranExecutive Director, Alaska Native Science CommissionThe Use and Application of Traditional Knowledge to Sustainable Fisheries
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Over the past several years, the use of traditional knowledge as a legitimate component in the decision-making process has grown dramatically. This has prompted the need to establish guidelines for use of TK by researchers, policy makers and other communities and to encourage the use of TK and teaching practices by minimizing the potential for misuse and misunderstanding in the process. This session will discuss several key issues including Native worldview, value systems, what is TK, challenges and benefits to using TK, guidelines, recent concerns and observations.
Patricia Cochran, is an Inupiat Eskimo born and raised in Nome, Alaska. Ms. Cochran serves as Executive Director of the Alaska Native Science Commission (ANSC), a non-profit organization created to bring together research and science in partnership with Alaska Native communities. ANSC serves as a clearinghouse for proposed research, an information base for ongoing and past research and an archive for significant research involving the Native community. ANSC provides information, referral and networking services for researchers and Alaska Native communities.
Ms. Cochran previously served as Administrator of the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage; Executive Director of the Alaska Community Development Corporation; Local Government Program Director with the University of Alaska Fairbanks; and Director of Employment and Training for the North Pacific Rim Native Corporation (Chugachmiut).
Ms. Cochran has served as Chair of the American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Caucus of the American Public Health Association; Science Advisor to the Arctic Research Commission; Member of the Alaska Global Planning Team, Member of the Science Steering committee for the National Science Foundation Human Dimension of the Arctic System; NSF Office of Polar Programs Advisory Committee Member; Program Chair for the Indigenous Program of the Tenth International Congress on Circumpolar Health; Treasurer and Governing Council Member of the International Union for Circumpolar Health; Member of the National Native Science Education Advisory Council; Member of the National Research Council Committee on Managing Wolf and Bear Populations in Alaska and Committee on Cumulative Environmental Effects of Alaskan North Slope Oil and Gas Activities; board member of the American Society for Circumpolar Health, trustee of the Albrecht-Milan Foundation, board president of the Abused Women’s Aid in Crisis center; member of the Southcentral Native Educators’ Association; and U.S. lead for the Youth and Elders Initiative of the Arctic Council.
Barnhardt, R. and A. O. Kawagley. 2005. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Alaska Native Ways of Knowing. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 36(1):8-23. (read only Emerging Research Associated with Indigenous Knowledge Systems section)
Merculieff, L. and P. A. L. Cochran. Native Science and Sense Making. unpublished manuscript 2005.
The Value and Use of Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom: Partnerships for the Bering Sea. In: 2002. Alaska Native Fish, Wildlife, Habitat and Environment Statewide Summit Report, Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc. pp. 16-20.
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