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Ed Galindo, PhD

Native American Scholar

Dr. Galindo (Yaqui, American Indian) is a faculty member at the University of Idaho, Associate Director for Education and Diversity for the NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium, Affiliate faculty member at Idaho State University (Biology Department) and Affiliate faculty member at Utah State University (Physics Department). Dr. Galindo has extensive education and research in working with Native American students. While serving as chairman of the science department on the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Reservation, he was twice elected as the National Indian Teacher of the Year, awarded by the National Indian School Board Association. Dr. Galindo describes himself as “round and brown”, full of curiosity for life and learning. He finds humor in most things on this planet, including himself.

Ed is very proud to currently be serving as a board member with the Barry M Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Most recently, Ed was honored to be inducted as a lifetime (Sequoyah Fellow) member of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) for research and educational outreach in the American Indian communities. The Native American Research and Education Foundation was a host of an honoring dinner held at Las Vegas Nevada in April (2016).

7.30 AM - 8.30 AM

Tuesday 14th Sept

Welcome Song & Introductions

Bring your own breakfast and join us for a welcome song. Following that, Ed Galindo will set the stage for the Gathering with introductions.

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM

Tuesday 14th Sept

Nation-building as an Educator and Scientist through tribal employment & as co-founders of River Newe, an Indigenous owned nonprofit organization

We will present an overview, film clip, and update on River Newe, tribal employment roles, and members of our community interactions. There is importance to the positionality as tribal employees with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal government that is becoming pertinent to us and specific to our nation. The specificity is a pattern of storytelling (living metaphors) from theory to praxis, on-the-ground, and real-time cultural-relevancy of experiences. We are concurrently working on proposals to increase this activity and gain support to carry out the work among Indigenous Pedagogy and Methodology development. Through our daily work we are creating up and coming active agents of climate change sciences (social, political, environmental, and legal intersections) through Shoshone-Bannock Traditional Ecological Knowledge (SBTEK) frameworks.

3.30 PM - 4.30 PM

Tuesday 14th Sept

What is the current status of American Indian Communities and NSF Involvement and Why?

4.30 PM - 5.00 PM

Tuesday 14th Sept

Concluding Remarks, Day 1

8.30 AM - 9:30 AM

Wednesday 15th Sept

How to Transition from an American Indian Agenda to an American Indian Research / Education Agenda

9.30 AM - 10.15 AM

Wednesday 15th Sept

Lessons Learned from NSF and KECK Funded Programs and American Indian and Indigenous Community Involvement

11.45 AM - 12.00 PM

Wednesday 15th Sept

Recap Discussions

Join us as we share findings from the previous discussions.

12.00 PM - 1.00 PM

Wednesday 15th Sept

Lunch and Closing Remarks, Day 2

Grab your lunch and join us for the closing remarks.