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Tribal Research Specialist: The Podcast#16 - Indigenous Scholars: Making Our Education Work for Tribal Communities - Guest: Lydia JenningsSend us a textIn the episode, the IRC team speaks with Lydia Jennings (Pascua Yaqui and Huichol). Lydia is doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Sciences, with a minor in American Indian Policy at the University of Arizona (UA). Her research interests are in environmental remediation, Indigenous science, mining policy, and environmental data ownership by tribal nations.Lydia’s dissertation research focuses on the identification and characterization of microbial indicators as tools to evaluate mine waste reclamation, while her minor research focuses on the laws around mining on federal lands to which tribes hav...2020-08-221h 09
I BELIEVEPANEL (2/26/2020). Joseph Clair, Brian Doak, Javier Garcia, Lydia Shepard-Kiser (THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH)What is the Church, exactly? Is the Church corrupted by money? Should ministers be paid? Should anyone profit off of working at a Christian institution of any kind? Would Jesus have approved of our churches? What is “low church” and “high church”? Dr. Joseph Clair, our Monday lecturer, along with Pastor Lydia and Dr. Garcia are back as panelists to tackle these questions—and, as always, much more.2020-02-2600 min