"A Personal Journey with Geospatial Education and Tribal Colleges"

Tammie Grant

Tammie Grant is a consultant for Tribal Colleges in the area of geosciences and geospatial technologies.  Tammie has worked since 2000 with Salish Kootenai College in Education Outreach with college students, middle and high school students and elders on the Flathead Reservation.  Salish Kootenai College is located in NW Montana between Missoula and Glacier National Park. She enjoys working with cultural resources and finding ways to weave technology around traditional thinking. Tammie is most interested in involving tribal youth and elders together to look at natural resources in a way that traditional methods of management links to modern resource management. She is also very interested in international indigenous groups and looking at their resource practices as compared to Native Americans.

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LOCATION: 103 Mulford Hall, UCB, Berkeley, CA 94720

BACKGROUND:

Indigenous Mapping Network meetings at UC-Berkeley convene mapping practitioners, indigenous community members, indigenous rights organizations, researchers, and technology professionals to discuss current issues in indigenous mapping.

Our meetings are intended to create a platform for supporting indigenous mapping collaborations and linking communities with emerging technologies.

Mapping approaches can include thought-maps, performance, materials, as well as GIS, web, and mobile phone technologies.

***We are looking for officers to help us form a Berkeley student group!***

For more information visit http://indigenousmapping.net or contact Sibyl Diver, doctoral student, sdiver@berkeley.edu or Rosemarie McKeon, IMN board member, rosemarie.mckeon@gmail.com