The Benjamin Loan Mills

Although there was a time when the Benjamin Loan Mills were alive with activity, those days are now gone. They ended a century ago when the gristmill and the sawmill closed in 1901 after yet another fire. When the smoke cleared, Christian Deardorff, the mills\u27 last owner, may have sighed with relief, for he had been trying sporadically to sell the mills for thirteen years, ever since he had rebuilt them after an earlier fire. In 1901, when again faced with fire-damaged mills, Deardorff decided not to rebuild them. In doing so, he also closed the last chapter in the history of these mills. [excerpt

Writing of Indigenous New England: Building Partnerships for the Preservation of Regional Native American Literature

The project will convene a group of regional Native American knowledge keepers, humanities scholars, and digitization and intellectual property experts for project and planning activities associated with the online portal, "Writing of Indigenous New England." At present our growing collaboration includes scholars, librarians, web developers and tribal historians from New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. We seek NEH funding to accomplish three initial goals: (1) convene a 2-day editorial board meeting and planning session, from which we will (2) write up our editorial guidelines and priorities, agree on culturally-sensitive intellectual property protocols, and establish technical specifications for the website; and (3) run three pilot projects at the Tomaquag Museum (RI), Indigenous Resource Collaborative (MA), and Passmaquoddy Heritage Center (ME), to help us establish workflow, clarify budget and staffing expectations, and begin drafting some larger funding proposals

Sovereignty and Sustainability in Mohegan Ethnobotanical Literature

This commentary contends that sustainability can be most useful if understood not as an endpoint or condition, but as an epistemology that attends to continually evolving interactions among ecological and human systems. My case study is a carefully delimited Native American literary tradition: the writing of medicine people from the Mohegan tribal nation, located in what is now Connecticut. I present this body of work neither to romanticize “ecological Indians,” nor to explicate the texts’ ethnobotanical content. Rather, I observe that Mohegan medicine people have used, extended and subverted the conventions of post-Enlightenment ethnobotany. They have used writing to preserve their traditional ecological knowledge, but not in ways that simply document that knowledge, which would render it vulnerable to theft and misuse. Instead, these texts emphasize relations of reciprocity—between text and orality, between Mohegans and non-Mohegans, between humans and plants

Honoring the Mother of All People; Contemporary Indigenous Leadership in Revitalizing Environmental and Cultural Sustainability

This series of events brings Indigenous perspectives from 22 Indigenous speakers across the U.S. and Arctic regions to discussions of sustainable futures within the New Hampshire community. There is growing movement in the academic community to understand how Indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage can deepen our thinking about sustainable futures. While most researchers recognize that anthropogenic climate change and other sustainability challenges require humanistic as well as scientific approaches, many have yet to thoroughly understand the colonial legacies that initiated many of these sustainability problems and continue to impede our study and solutions. The 2020-2021 Sidore Series was designed to increase awareness about Indigenous perspectives on climate change and cultural resilience; showcase examples of how Indigenous groups are engaged in regional, national, and international dialogues on climate and sustainability; explore how the University of New Hampshire can bring these ideas into teaching, research, and scholarship; and initiate relationships with Indigenous communities to pursue collaborative capacity-building for the co-production of knowledge

Internalized misogyny and feminist consciousness among College students

Abstract onlyInternalized misogyny refers to the unconscious acknowledgement of sexist ideas by women, the subliminal projection of sexist ideas onto themselves or other women, such as undermining other women or themselves, and expressing immense distaste for characteristics that are deemed to be feminine, while feminist consciousness is the awareness and criticism of patriarchy and gender inequalities; feminist consciousness also refers to feminist self-identification. There is still a gap in the literature on internalized misogyny and feminist consciousness within educational settings, despite the increase in public awareness and academic studies. Therefore, as a group of female researchers who have experienced our fair share of challenges as women, our desire for social change and societal relevance are just two of the many motivators that have driven us to conduct this study. This research paper explores the concept of internalized misogyny as well as the significance of feminist consciousness. The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between internalized misogyny and feminist consciousness among female college students when grouped according to sexual orientation and year level. A quantitative approach was used. A survey method is used to obtain data from the selected respondents. A probability sampling method, specifically stratified random sampling, was utilized to select 305 respondents based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. The Feminist Consciousness Scale (FCS; Duncan et al., 2020), the Internalized Misogyny Scale (IMS; Pigott. 2004). and a demographic questionnaire were administered for the purposes of this study. As a whole, the respondents showed a low level of internalized misogyny. When determined by sexual orientation, both the queer and heterosexual female students' levels of internalized misogyny were low. In its entirety, the respondents showed a moderate level of feminist consciousness. Moreover, across all categories, the respondents maintained the same level of feminist consciousness—sexual orientation and year level alike. There is a significant relationship between the levels of internalized misogyny and feminist consciousness among female college students. The Pearson's coefficient of -.238 indicates that there is a weak negative correlation (LaMorte, 2021; Miyamoto et al., 2017; Meghanathan, 2016). The study concludes that female college students who have lower levels of feminist consciousness might be more vulnerable to internalizing misogyny from their personal experiences with sexist comments and encounters in their personal lives.Bachelor of Science in Psycholog

Institutional review board challenges related to community-based participatory research on human exposure to environmental toxins: A case study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>We report on the challenges of obtaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) coverage for a community-based participatory research (CBPR) environmental justice project, which involved reporting biomonitoring and household exposure results to participants, and included lay participation in research.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We draw on our experiences guiding a multi-partner CBPR project through university and state Institutional Review Board reviews, and other CBPR colleagues' written accounts and conference presentations and discussions. We also interviewed academics involved in CBPR to learn of their challenges with Institutional Review Boards.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We found that Institutional Review Boards are generally unfamiliar with CBPR, reluctant to oversee community partners, and resistant to ongoing researcher-participant interaction. Institutional Review Boards sometimes unintentionally violate the very principles of beneficence and justice which they are supposed to uphold. For example, some Institutional Review Boards refuse to allow report-back of individual data to participants, which contradicts the CBPR principles that guide a growing number of projects. This causes significant delays and may divert research and dissemination efforts. Our extensive education of our university Institutional Review Board convinced them to provide human subjects protection coverage for two community-based organizations in our partnership.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>IRBs and funders should develop clear, routine review guidelines that respect the unique qualities of CBPR, while researchers and community partners can educate IRB staff and board members about the objectives, ethical frameworks, and research methods of CBPR. These strategies can better protect research participants from the harm of unnecessary delays and exclusion from the research process, while facilitating the ethical communication of study results to participants and communities.</p