HR: 0800h
AN: ED21A-1226    [Abstracts]
TI: Lakota Land - Mapping historical and recreational Native American areas
AU: * Comeskilling, c
EM: comeskilling_charles@hotmail.com
AF: oglala lakota college, 3 mile creek rd, kyle, sd 57752 United States
AU: mannel, s
EM: smannel@olc.edu
AF: oglala lakota college, 3 mile creek rd, kyle, sd 57752 United States
AB: "Lakota Land" is a new project to locate Lakota historical, cultural and recreational areas. It includes establishing a geodatabase, setting up an online interactive map, and provides the possibility of investigating links of Native sites with geospatial features, such as water or mountains. The rationale for Lakota Land is to, a) preserve sites from destruction, b) advance the understanding of geospatial technology to a broad Native American public c) foster Native identity, d) provide a tool for tribal decision making, e) educate Native and non-native communities, f) provide a database for researchers of Native culture/history g) offer alternatives to socio-economic problems and, h) research geospatial patterns to identify additional sites. This program helps reservation residents to enter and advance in geoscience careers. We will develop unique procedures for documenting Lakota cultural sites: a working database and an interactive online map of sites approved for publication.
DE: 6699 General or miscellaneous
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005