Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, PhD
sauyaq.bsky.social
Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, PhD
@sauyaq.bsky.social
Inupiaq, honoring my ancestors, self-determination | Fulbright Arctic ❄️ | Climate advocate | sustainability 🌎| Science Diplomat | Researcher | Evaluator | Speaker | Trainer | futurist 💡| connecting Indigenous Peoples worldwide 🌺 | evidence based policy|🐈
It is knowledge and science for critical management decisions and environmental governance extends more broadly than EuroAmerican systems grounded in this cosmography (centering humans in science, meaning, and decisions around land). We need the most data to make the best evidence-based decisions.
October 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This is a major planetary security issue, for humans, nonhumans, ecosystems, and for futures. The anthropocentric approach of considering the planet as a "resource" for human use has led to ecological collapse and climate crises.
October 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I am not the first to say this though. This principle is shared quite widely. My work looks at HOW to do this. How do we bring Indigenous Knowledges and Sciences into management decisions?
October 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I will be talking about my work in Alaska that has led me to this Fulbright, and what I am working on currently from learnings in Nunavut and my planned trip in Sapmi. This addresses the lack of inclusion of Indigenous Knowledges and Sciences in land, onshore water, and ocean management decisions.
October 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Qualified evaluators will have experience in Indigenous and Western evaluation methodologies and will demonstrate a strong capability for carrying out a quasi-experimental design model, mixed-methods approaches, advanced statistical analysis, and reporting regarding school outcomes.
August 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Chugachmiut requests considerations from qualified researchers or research firms to serve as the Independent Evaluator (IE) in a five-year grant program funded under the FY25 Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Grant, Early Phase Projects. Seeking a fidelity and impact evaluator.
August 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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What's "in real terms", what's "Real Life",... & "these last months & years", these last decades & today's "now", eh? 🤙🙏
Tomorrow's "Yesterday",...
The "past", what's "passed", "What's happening?!" & "conveyance" indeed!✌️✊
What's the time? Indigenous temporalities and the "Everywhen" - ABC listen
We tend to think of time as a universal experience, something that carries us all along in the same direction at the same pace. So it might seem strange to think of time in terms of "temporalities", d...
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July 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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If you're a visual learner: white represents money FEMA is granting to build detention centers. Blue represents too much money to spend saving little girls (and a hundred other people) from drowning
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
NCRE Scholars provides career development support and mentoring to early career Native American investigators and late-stage graduate students interested in research on substance use and disorder and Native child and adolescent development.
July 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
NCRE Scholars is situated within the Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE) network, which brings together researchers studying child development from birth through emerging adulthood in Native communities.
July 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ah ok no worries. I sent an update. Hope all is well. I am slammed right now but trying to keep what I can on track.
July 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
📍 Strengthen intergenerational bonds under UNDRIP
📍 Inspire long-term thinking from now into the next century

#GIYSCC2025 #Indigenous #youth #allies #climatechange
July 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our goals are powerful and clear:
📍 Connect Indigenous youth from dozens of countries and languages (all youth welcome, including allies!)
📍 Share observations, strategies, and lived experiences of climate impacts
📍 Build lifelong capacity for engagement in UNFCCC and climate diplomacy
July 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hosted by Future Earth with the Science Diplomacy Center, and supported by INGSA Africa Chapter & INGSA Asia, #GIYSCC2025 amplifies Indigenous youth voices leading the fight on climate action.
July 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The third annual Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change, a virtual platform by, for, and among Indigenous youth worldwide, is being held on the United Nations International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
July 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM