(photo credit to the GPRC)

By Jeromy Corrigan

GPRC

GPRC Students to take part in research surrounding Indigenous traditions around wildfire management

Jul 2, 2019 | 12:10 PM

A pair of GPRC students will get the chance to form a unique partnership this summer.

Andrea Rosenberger and Emma Doerkson will be taking part in the Sistering Indigenous and Western Science bursary and mentoring program which embraces both Indigenous cultural knowledge and Western science.

The SINEWS program funds eight pairs of post-secondary female students to take part in the study, with each team consisting of one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous student.

“I’m so excited to dive in and learn,” stated Rosenberger in a press release from GPRC Tuesday morning.

“Due to general attitudes that Indigenous people didn’t have science, our ways of knowing weren’t valued in Canadian systems or reflected in public policy. Even though we’ve retained our teachings, they’ve kind of gone underground.”

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Both Rosenberger and Doerkson completed training in May at the Northern Forestry Centre and are continuing to work with Natural Resources Canada’s fire social scientist, Amy Christianson.

Following their two-month research, the pair will present their findings in a presentation at GPRC.