CNAIS faculty Clint Carroll wins NSF Grant!

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 23:13:35 +0000

CNAIS faculty Clint Carroll wins NSF Grant! Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/01/2017 - 16:13

Cherokee elder Crosslin Smith discusses tribal land conservation with Clint Carroll. Photo by Myra Robertson. At the top of the page is an image of wild senna/gvhnage (Senna marilandica), one of the culturally significant plants Carroll is focused on. Photo by Clint Carroll.

CNAIS & Ethnic Studies Faculty, Clint Carroll has been awarded a prestigious early career award. The grant from the National Science Foundation will allow Carroll to continue his work with the Cherokee people, aimed toward advocating tribal environmental education and cultural and ecological resiliency. His research will help to preserve tribal tradition and knowledge for future generations through the Faculty Early Career Development Award, a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

“Essentially the proposal and the project is geared toward producing a new generation of tribal environmental leaders,” Carroll says. “That’s really the grand vision of it, and asking these questions that get at the issue of accessing plants and being able to operate as resource users in a checkerboarded landscape.”
“The health of our people is directly related to the health of our lands,” Carroll continues. “By redirecting resources to tribal land conversation and knowledge revitalization, that will have an effect on the health of our people.”

Carroll, assistant professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has been working with tribal elders to promote traditional knowledge and the conservation of tribal land since 2004. Read the full article in the CU Arts & Sciences Magazine.

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Why Ethnic Studies Matters: Compassion and Solidarity in Times of Strife

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:39:31 +0000

Why Ethnic Studies Matters: Compassion and Solidarity in Times of Strife Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/15/2016 - 15:39

Why Ethnic Studies Matters: Compassion and Solidarity in Times of Strife

The purpose of this forum is multi-fold: to allow students, faculty and staff in the Department of Ethnic Studies and our allies to learn how to be allies and provide respectful support to the tribal activists and families in Standing Rock. In the second hour of the forum we will provide a space of empathy and support for those who feel afflicted by the election results in 2016, especially around issues of race, gender, and immigration status.

This forum will be facilitated by Dr. Danika Medak-Saltzman, Dr. Clint Carroll, Dr. Arturo J. Aldama, among other faculty in Ethnic Studies and allies across CU campus, including WRC & Prof. Chapin, the Law School.

Note: CNAIS faculty Danika Medak-Saltzman and Clint Carroll visited Standing Rock recently and will focus the first hour of the talk on how allies can best support the Water Protectors. Please join us!

When: Wed. Nov. 16 - 2-4pm

Where: UMC 247

This forum will discuss how to respectfully support the Indigenous activists and families in Standing Rock, and additionally will provide a space of empathy and support for those who feel afflicted by the 2016 election results, especially around issues of race, gender, and immigration status.

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