Update from the ISE Interim Board
The ISE Interim Board is pleased to let the members know that we were successful in securing a new grant from The Christensen Fund. This grant will carry the ISE through the 2012 Congress and allow for continuation of our 3 program areas, an institutional review, and diversification of the funding base for the Society. [Read full article]
ISE Program Updates
The ISE Ethics Program
Two major ethics program initiatives are currently in progress for 2011-2012: Review of the ISE Code of Ethics and establishing an online platform to support continued development of the Ethics Toolkit. The ISE Board is also pleased to announce the appointment of Gleb Raygorodetsky as the Ethics Program Co-Chair with current Chair, Kelly Bannister. [Read full article]
The ISE Global Coalition
In 2011-2012, the Global Coalition plans to establish an online action and information-sharing portal that responds to pressing issues of international, regional or local concerns. The Global Coalition is also involved planning the 2012 Indigenous Forum. Read more about these initiatives and how to become more involved in this Program.
The ISE Darrell Posey Fellowship Program
The 2011-2013 Fellowship Program includes Field Fellowships and Small Grants and new Institutional Grants for graduate students that support research addressing the needs of Indigenous peoples and local communities, while building the field of ethnobiology and promoting ethical research in line with the ISE Code of Ethics. [Read full article]
A part of ISE’s history: Maori claim to the Waitangi Tribunal
The long awaited historic report on the Maori claim to the Waitangi Tribunal was released at a hui on Roma Marae in Northland on Saturday 2 July 2011. The ISE has had a long standing association with this claim and a number of past and present members of the ISE gave evidence to the Tribunal in 1998 at a special hearing convened in Rotorua NZ. Read comments from Maui Solomon and Dave Stephenson.
The ISE’s new online voting process
Developing the option for online voting was discussed and approved by ISE members at the 2012 ISE Congress. The idea is to enfranchise all of our members by allowing everyone to actively participate in Society business, regardless of whether they are able to attend an ISE congress. [Read and comment on the proposed process]
ISE congresses and workshops
2011 2nd ISE Eastern European Workshop
The 2nd ISE pre-Congress Workshop for Emerging Ethnobiologists
Profile: A Biography of Dr. Sudhanshu Kumar Jain
Contributed by ISE member, Arvind Saklani
Dr. Sudhanshu Kumar Jain was born on June 30, 1926 in Amroha, a place of mango and sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh, India. Unlike today, India was devoid of good schooling in small towns and villages. The early education of this son of an agriculturist was entrusted to full-time tutors at home. His first formal education was class 5 in 1933 in his hometown, Seohara. [Read full article]
Ethnobiology and indigenous knowledge: a focus on North America
Diabetes, Cree Nation and traditional medicine
Contributed by Alain Cuerrier, Montreal Botanical Garden and ISE North America Representative
In 2002, I was approached by a pharmacologist, Pierre Haddad, who wanted to help native people prevent and tackle diabetes that prevailed then and now within their population. Diabetes is up to 5 times more prevalent among First Nations communities than in the non-native population of Canada. We decided to form a multidisciplinary team… [Read full article]
Principles and practices of Haudenosaunee environmental knowledge
Contributed by Jessica Dolan, McGill University, ISE Member
Shé:kon, hello! My name is Jessica Dolan. I’m a PhD student currently doing research in Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) communities on how people are putting Haudenosaunee ecological knowledge and traditional philosophies into practice in environmental stewardship projects. [Read full article]
Conference and workshop reports
South-south exchange: design, planning and implementation of indigenous biocultural territories
Contributed by Tammy Stenner
Society of Ethnobiology 2011 conference report
Contributed by Leslie Main Johnson, Newsletter Editor and ISE Secretary