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The IAS serves as a home for numerous grant-funded projects and initiatives that operate within and beyond the academy. These initiatives are interdisciplinary in nature and are either led by the IAS or by IAS Affiliates and receive IAS administrative support.

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Challenging Western Modes of Thinking

Issue Seventeen (Fall 2020) of Open Rivers was created in connection with the Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative. As part of the first year of this work, Christine Taitano DeLisle (American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities) worked with Open Rivers staff to help us imagine, coordinate, and create work that could be a resource both for people engaged in the Initiative work moving forward and a broader audience interested in Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies.

The work in this issue focuses on the interrelatedness of Indigenous ways of knowing and what we call the “environment” in Western modes of thinking. We titled this issue “Relationality” to highlight this connectedness. Many of the pieces in this issue offer an implicit challenge: how might our ways of engaging environmental challenges change if we considered ourselves as related, if we considered the “natural world” as other-than-human relatives? How might this interconnectedness impact our relationships with the world around us and with each other?

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A New Partnership with Tribal Colleges to Transform STEM Education

An ambitious new planning project aims to radically remake the role of predominantly white institutions in STEM graduate education by centering Tribal Colleges and Universities in tribal land- and self-determination-based science training. The project is a partnership between the University of Minnesota and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and is led by co-led by Elizabeth Sumida Huaman (Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development; College of Education and Human Development) and Darius Taylor (American Indian Higher Education Consortium), alongside an interdisciplinary team of faculty in the natural/physical and social sciences at the University of Minnesota and leadership at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.

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