2014 Student Research

Oral Presentation Abstracts
Decolonizing research: Traditional knowledge, History and Science

• Indigenous knowledge of fire ecology and implications for California Condor Habitat, Conor Handley, Humboldt State University

• Traditional Ecological Knowledge & Resilience: The Karuk Tribe Eco-Cultural Resource Management Plan, Nick Dreher, UO Environmental Studies Program – ENVS 511

• Assimilation and Activism: The Evolution of Northern Paiute Education

  Savannah Carter and Ayantu Megerssa, UO Clark Honors College – HC 444

• Two Birds with One Stone: An Analysis of Indigenous Petitions against the Global Climate Crisis, Nicholas Maurer, UO Clark Honors College – HC 434

Climate Impacts and Culture

• Our Squirrels Will Have Elephant Ears: Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change in the South Central United States, Paulette Blanchard, University of Oklahoma

• The Klamath Tribes and Water Rights: A Critical Review of the 1954 Termination of Federal Recognition, Dan Shtob, UO Environmental Studies Program – ENVS 511

• The Effects on Dam Construction on the Traditional Foods and Cultural Practices of the Klamath People, Anthony Kollmorgan, UO Sociology and Native American Studies Program – ENVS 411

• From Policies to People: The Indian Reorganization Act at Warm Springs Reservation, Celia Easton Koehler, UO Clark Honors College UO – HC 444

• Prehistoric Human Adaptations to Climate Change: an Archaeological Case Study from the northern Great Basin, Jordan Pratt, UO Clark Honors College – HC 434

• Climate change and culture change: Greenlandic indigenous peoples in the Little Ice Age, Hannah Fuller, UO Clark Honors College – HC 434

Sovereignty and Environmental Justice

• Idle No More, Indigenous Feminisms and Deconstructing Ecomaternalism, Erica Lee, University of Saskatchewan

• Ice Sheets and the Inuit People: Culture, Traditions and Food Sovereignty the Risk and Response of a Sovereign Nation, Nicholas Sanchez, UO Environmental Studies Program – ENVS 411

• Traditional Persistence: The Past and Present Paiute Diet, Ashleigh Dougill, UO Clark Honors College – HC 444

• Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative: A Case Study on Changing Climate Change Mitigation Narratives, Mairin Peck, UO Clark Honors College – HC 434

• How Translations (Dis)Empower Indigenous Identity Politics, Charlotte Rheingold, UO Clark Honors College – HC 434

Case Studies

• Potential impacts of climate change on brackish water ecosystems of Keaukaha, Hawai’i, Kamala Anthony, University of Hawai’I at Hilo

• Climate Change Adaptation in the NW: Planning for Culture and Resources, Ettie Johnson, UO Environmental Studies Program – ENVS 411

• Tribal Rights to Shellfish Rights in the Face of Climate Change
  Kathryn Boyd-Batstone, University of Oregon – ENVS 411

• This Year the Birds Fly North: An Historical Short Story of Medicine Man Oytes and the Forced Removal of the Northern Paiute to Yakima, Dean Dier, UO Clark Honors College – HC 444

STUDENT POSTER ABSTRACTS (Listed alphabetically by class)

ENVS 411/511: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

• Climate Change and the Lummi Tribe, Ryan Ahrling, UO Environmental Studies & Geography

• Indigenous GIS, Climate Change, and the Convergence of Multiple Ways of Knowing – Adrienne Bovee, University of Oregon

• Ahupua’ a, Traditional Management System Leading Towards a Resilient Hawai’i, Brian Farrar, UO Environmental Studies and Biology

• Sea Ice, Coastal Erosion, and the Inupiat; How indigenous relationships with the land and water influence responses to climate change, Dalton Fusco, UO Environmental Studies

• Exploitation and Destruction of the Waorani peoples in Ecuador, Katrina Henderson, Environmental Studies and Biology

• Indigenous Food Security in Response to Climate Change, Deion Jones, UO Environmental Studies

• Responding to Climate Change within Native American Housing Initiatives, Sustainability as a Vector for Promoting Quality of Life and Culture, Abraham Kelso, UO Architecture

• The U’wa Tribe’s Struggle for Environmental Justice, Teja Kritika, UO International Studies

• Under Fire: Restoration and Information Use in the Willamette Valley, Phoebe Lett, UO Environmental Studies

• The impacts of climate change on traditional medicinal plants of the Northern American tribes, Réna Nénot, UO Environmental Studies

• The Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Impacts to Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon, Kelsi Niece, UO Environmental Studies

• Amazon Dam Complex, Josh Noonan, UO Environmental Studies and Geography

• The Klamath River Basin: Moving from a colonial past toward a cooperative future, Jan Raether, UO Environmental Studies and Geography

• The Nooksack Tribe’s Plan for Adaptation, Emma Rubottom, UO Environmental Studies

• In the Belly of the Beast: Climate Change and the Inuit, Preet Singh, UO Environmental Science

• Effects of Climate Change on The Nez Perce Tribe, Dace Whiteley, UO Environmental Science

HC 434: Climate and Culture in the Americas

• Changing Arctic Foodways, Ben Leamon, UO Clark Honors College

• The Guna People and Climate Change: Power Dynamics, Media Portrayals, and Cultural Resilience, Michael Enseki-Frank, UO Clark Honors College

• The Invisible Hands: How Neoliberalism and Climate Change affect Gender Roles, Megan Gleason, UO Clark Honors College

• The Doctor is Out: Climate Change and its Effects on Traditional Medicine for Canada’s First Peoples, Alex Hardin, UO Clark Honors College

• A Case from Pacific Island Archaeology Illustrating the Role of Anthropology in Countering Climate Reductionist Thinking, Sean Hixon, UO Clark Honors College

• Narrating Glaciers as Ruined Futures, M Jackson, University of Oregon

• Impacts of Climate Change on Inuit Communities: Food Security, Celine Johnson, UO Clark Honors College

• Mental health decline as a result of the loss of place-attachment, Emma Kleck, University of Oregon

• Fire and Forests: Culture and Annual Prairie Burning of the Kalapuya, Wade Martin, UO Clark Honors College

• Dominant Narratives Surrounding Deforestation, Climate, and Indigenous Rights in the Amazon, Julia Metzler, UO Clark Honors College

• Buen Vivir: the challenges to living better, Helena Schlegel, UO Clark Honors College

• Responsibility, Action, and Agency: The Marshall Island Response to Climate Change, Elizabeth Strickland, UO Clark Honors College

• Climate Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Humanities in the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC, Andrew Swift, UO Clark Honors College

• Climate Change, Health and Safety in the Arctic: An Examination of the Effect of Declining Sea Ice on Indigenous Arctic Peoples, Jonathan Wallace, UO Clark Honors College

• The Effects of Global Climate Change on the Migration Patterns and Habitat of Sea Mammals and its Impact on Culture and Lifestyles of Arctic Indigenous Tribes, Alex Worth, UO Clark Honors College

HC 444: Decolonizing Research: The Northern Paiute History Project

• The Warm Springs Boarding School: Constructing White Femininity While Destabilizing Female Tribal Identity, Eva Bertoglio, UO Clark Honors College

• Who was Chief Paulina? Restoration History and the Reconstruction of Paulina’s Identity in Popular Memory, Sarianne Harris, UO Clark Honors College

• The Malheur Reservation: An Examination of the Rights of the Northern Paiutes from Founding to Closing, Sophie Hoover, UO Clark Honors College

• Hidden Hunters: The Little-Known Native Soldiers that Changed Warfare in the West, Tyler Jorgensen, UO Clark Honors College

• The Varying Representation of Northern Paiute Historical Narratives in Oregon Museums, Spencer Kales, UO Clark Honors College

• A True Northern Paiute Hero: An Analysis of Chief Egan and his Leadership in the Bannock-Paiute War of 1878, Kevin Lai, UO Clark Honors College

• The Search for Peace on the Brink of Annihilation: Chiefs Paulina and Weahwewa and the Peace Agreement of 1868, Alec Malnati, UO Clark Honors College

• The Mentality of Massacre: The Frame of Mind of Oregon’s Colonizers Towards the Northern Paiutes, Caleb Nelson, UO Clark Honors College

• Boarding School Education and the Defense of Culture, Hannah Osborn, UO Clark Honors College

• Timber Economics of the Northern Paiutes, Sage Parker, UO Clark Honors College

• “Civilizing” the Northern Paiute Through Christianization, Hannah Saraceno, UO Clark Honors College

• Joel Palmer, the Oregon Superintendency and the Northern Paiutes, 1853–1856, Daniella Stach, UO Clark Honors College

• An Underrepresented Take on the Treaty of 1855: The Northern Paiute Experience and Perspective, Dar Yoon, UO Clark Honors College