This week’s BILD guest post comes from another team, and we are so thrilled to welcome the Raising Spirit Project team to the BILD community.

The Raising Spirit Project team includes researchers from the University of Lethbridge’s Institute for Child and Youth Studies, community partners and policy makers from Opokaa’sin Early Intervention Society, and local undergraduate and high school students. Anthropologist Jan Newberry, in collaboration with Tanya Pace-Crosschild, Opokaa’sin’s executive director, spearheaded the initial photo-elicitation project. Our Elder, Francis First Charger, Edna Bad Eagle, and Michelle Hogue have also joined us as community partners and policy makers. The project team includes researchers Kristine Alexander (history/CRC), Erin Spring (literature and education), Amy Mack (anthropology), and Taylor Little Mustache (undergraduate NAS student). Several high school students will join us, beginning in July, as research trainees.
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