Request for Letters of Research Interest (LOI)
Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service
And Pea Ridge National Military Park, Arkansas
Title: Pea Ridge National Military Park Ethnobotany: Inventory and Documentation
The Midwest Region Cultural Anthropology program, in collaboration with the Osage Nation, is soliciting interest in conducting a survey and inventory of culturally significant plant species that are present at PERI. The MWR Cultural Anthropology program, acting on behalf of PERI, is seeking a university-based partner to aid in identifying and understanding the best management practices for culturally significant plants located on land encompassed within the boundaries of the park. The study will be conducted in collaboration with the Osage Nation and document the plant species the tribe identifies as culturally significant and which may be the subject of a later request by the tribe to gather the identified species, subject to the provisions and criteria for tribal plant gathering agreements (36 CFR 2.6).
The cooperating partner will be tasked with completing an ethnographic study that will inventory and document such culturally significant plants. This project is a comprehensive evaluation based on ethnographic interviews of associated tribal members from the Osage Nation. The study shall conform to professional and scholarly standards regarding methodology of anthropological research and writing. Stylistic and bibliographical standards shall conform to the current requirements of the journal American Anthropologist, and the current Chicago Manual of Style.
PERI letter of interest 2018
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