You can submit your application to the 2025 Summer Internship through this link.

This internship trains participants how to explore climate changes through the multiple lenses of research instructed by Native scholars. It will center Indigenous Knowledges/sciences and compliment Western Science as it explores the many ways to do climate science work. Each year the internship will travel to one of four research sites of the NSF CoPe RVCC grant #2103843: Hawaii, Alaska, Louisiana, and Puerto Rico, to meet with the scientists, community members and the land itself to be introduced to how we can learn from and care for places. 

Interns will spend four plus weeks in Lawrence Kansas at Haskell Indian Nations University studying about research, writing, the site culture, etiquette and protocols, science communication, TEK, Indigenous science and Western science, and science communication. Week five will take students to Louisiana southern coastal regions to visit some research sites, scientists doing research, and Native Americans from the communities to learn about the multiple ways climate is observed, adapted to, and expressed across disciplines to inform other scientists and community members. 

Meeting Native and Non-Native scientists doing the research in place will allow participants the opportunity to explore how they might consider their own interests and skills to advocate and care for their own homelands with education and research. Participants will be taught how to develop a research question and research to answer their question and communicate their findings in multiple ways which includes mixed media. At the end of the sixth week, interns will return home to finish their summer research project working with faculty on-line to complete their summer research project. Faculty mentors, scientists, and community knowledge holders will be available to help students to independently complete their summer research project.

 For more information contact;

 Dr. Paulette Blanchard (Absentee Shawnee Citizen) at pblanchard@haskellfoundation.org