And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [note: some addresses are blind copied] Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Request for Input from Indigenous People in Science by Sophia Cleland I will be on a panel which will be presenting the problems that American Indians have in pursuing science. This panel will be presenting the problems that we have to the NIH (National Institute of Health) branch heads in August and will be presenting our solutions to these proposed problems. I would like to request all who have been interested in science, have been in science, and are in science to email me their concerns regarding this problem. I have been invited to be on the panel to present a graduate student perspective. I am currently a first year Ph.D. student at Cornell University who is studying genetics; I recently decided to take a year off to think about the implications of my research, and how best I can serve my community. I am Oglala Lakota from the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Reservation in Montana. I am on the road right now through South Dakota and Montana now visiting family and friends; so my internet access will be when I check my email at tribal colleges. My main point I will make on the panel is that researchers do not have the right and will not be allowed to study us by obtaining our blood samples, our genetic material, our medicinal plants, our resources, our biodiversity until they can train our community members to be on par with them. They will have to train us so that we can understand the scientific and ethical reasons for their research, and can contribute equally to their research and do our own research in and on our own communities. When researchers come into our communities, they should train us in order that we can have our own labs to do our own research rather than simply using informed consent. We need to be going beyond informed consent; and ensuring that we can no longer be exploited and will instead regain our rightful place in humanity as people who can contribute to science as it stands today. Please contact me at the this email address. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I will be willing to discuss my ideas further to develop them. Sincerely, Sophia Cleland, Ph.D. Student Cornell University - Section of Genetics and Development Ithaca, NY Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&