Collaborative Research and Co-Learning

We discuss linked Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) ecological knowledge and place-based spirituality related to federal lands in the southern Great Basin, USA. Nuwuvi or ‘the people’ are Numic speakers who consider this area to be their ancestral homeland and a close relative since the time when the world was new. The current land holdings of these six federally and one non-federally recognized Native American nations are a fraction of the pre-contact period. The ancestral territory was fragmented and knowledge transmission hindered by gradual encroachment by settlers, reorganization onto reservations, land annexation by federal agencies, relocation to government boarding schools barring indigenous languages, and more. We present two applied interpretive and resource management projects aimed at revitalizing Nuwuvi relationships with their ancestral territory currently governed by several federal agencies. Our framework considers co-learning among indigenous peoples, federal land managers, and the general public to be vital to the revitalization process. Co-learning occurs in these projects by utilizing collaborative ethnographic methods in conducting research, integrating a variety of perspectives, creating opportunities for intergenerational knowledge transmission and interactions with ancestral lands, and enhancing government-to-government consultation and public education

Economic growth · Geography · Government (linguistics · Homeland · Indigenous · Political science · Relocation · Traditional knowledge · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Public Administration · Ecology

• Quantitative, qualitative, and collaborative methods

  Open Access•Jeremy Spoon•Conservation Ecology•2014

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• Cultural and spiritual significance of nature

  Bas Verschuuren, Josep-Maria Mallarach et al.•Cultural and spiritual…•2021

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• Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute), Shifting Fire Regimes, and the Carpenter One Fire in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada

  Open Access•Jeremy Spoon, Richard Arnold et al.•Journal of Ethnobiology•2015

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• Unbalanced or Absent

  Open Access•Leah Rosenkranz, Jeremy Spoon et al.•Heritage & Society•2025

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• Emancipatory spaces

  Open Access•Alicea Garcia, Petra Tschakert et al.•Geoforum•2021

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