HR: 09:30h
AN: B11F-07 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: NativeView: A Geospatial Curriculum for Native Nation Building
AU: * Rattling Leaf, J
EM: james.rattlingleaf@sintegleska.edu
AF: Sinte Gleska University, 101 Antelope Lake Circle PO Box 105, Mission, SD 57555, United States
AB: In the spirit of collaboration and reciprocity, James Rattling Leaf of Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Reservation of South Dakota will present recent developments, experiences, insights and a vision for education in Indian Country. As a thirty-year young institution, Sinte Gleska University is founded by a strong vision of ancestral leadership and the values of the Lakota Way of Life. Sinte Gleska University (SGU) has initiated the development of a Geospatial Education Curriculum project. NativeView: A Geospatial Curriculum for Native Nation Building is a two-year project that entails a disciplined approach towards the development of a relevant Geospatial academic curriculum. This project is designed to meet the educational and land management needs of the Rosebud Lakota Tribe through the utilization of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). In conjunction with the strategy and progress of this academic project, a formal presentation and demonstration of the SGU based Geospatial software RezMapper software will exemplify an innovative example of state of the art information technology. RezMapper is an interactive CD software package focused toward the 21 Lakota communities on the Rosebud Reservation that utilizes an ingenious concept of multimedia mapping and state of the art data compression and presentation. This ongoing development utilizes geographic data, imagery from space, historical aerial photography and cultural features such as historic Lakota documents, language, song, video and historical photographs in a multimedia fashion. As a tangible product, RezMapper will be a project deliverable tool for use in the classroom and to a broad range of learners.
DE: 0402 Agricultural systems
DE: 0480 Remote sensing
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 0855 Diversity
DE: 1632 Land cover change
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting