Sandra Bartlett Atwood Receives Environment & Society Publication of the Year Award

Dr. Sandra Bartlett Atwood, an Indigenous Studies instructor at Lethbridge College and founding member of the AFS Folklore & Science Section, received the Environment & Society publication of the year award from Utah State University for her article titled “Níksókowaawák as Axiom: The Indispensability of Comprehensive Relational Animacy in Blackfoot Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing,” which was published in Society and Natural Resources in April 2023. 

One nominator noted that “this publication looks to move beyond traditional methods to create an Indigenous-focused methodology for doing research,” and another says the article “wonderfully highlights the value of collective methods in collaborative social-ecological research as it articulates Blackfoot and other Indigenous methods of data collection.”

Sandra will receive this award at a celebration at Utah State’s Quinney College of Natural Resources March 26, 2024.

Read Stories of the Iinii, which features aapistamikiitsinikssi* (buffalo stories) story told by Atwood and community members, in the fall 2023 issue of Wider Horizon, a publication of Lethbridge College.