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EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown, 2019
EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown, 2019

Madelyn Brown graduated from Eastern Washington University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with an emphasis in American Indian Studies. Madelyn’s research interests focus on traditional Indigenous knowledge and its historical influence on ecological-care techniques utilized by Pacific Northwest tribal communities. She was the recipient of the 2018 Gingolyx Village Government scholarship for academic excellence and a member of both the Native American Student Association and Phi Alpha Theta.

 

Madelyn was accepted into the Master's of Canadian and Indigenous Studies at Trent University, Canada; the American Indian Studies Master's program at Arizona State University; and Master's programs in History at Washington State; Western University, Canada; the Claremont Graduate School; George Mason; and Oregon State University, where she began attending in Fall 2020 with full funding.

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2019 McNair Faculty Research Mentors: Lecturer SimHayKin S. Jack and Dr. Christina Torres Garcia

Research Title: Maintaining Our Land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wildfire Prevention

Abstract: For over 100 years, Euro-American strategies devised and implemented in the western United States have contributed to the exponential increase in wildfires. By enforcing suppressive measures to disrupt the natural fire regimes, U.S. fire management agencies changed forest structures, wildfire severity, and previous preventative methods utilized by Indigenous peoples in the Northwest. Heavily influenced by past policies and Eurocentric beliefs, the continued tactics used to eliminate wildfires from ecosystems have instigated a greater occurrence of fires throughout our western forests as burnable fuels grow rampant. Taking into account the historic discrimination against Traditional Ecological Knowledge and its benefits in forest—and wildfire—management, I propose that these care techniques, specifically the acceptance of fire as a viable influence in forest health, should be taken into consideration when utilizing preventative measures against human-caused events.

18 Scholars Present at 2020 Symposium

18 EWU McNair Scholars Present at EWU Virtual Symposium

By Jaeger, Corinne | 06/10/2020
Photo of Madelyn Brown next to congratulations for her award and a logo for the EWU College of Social Sciences, surrounded by border of rainbow glitter

EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown Awarded Dean Jeffers W. Chertok Honored Student Award

By Jaeger, Corinne | 05/07/2020
Photo of Madelyn Brown next to red confetti background with text congratulating her.

EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown Accepted into Additional Masters Program

By Jaeger, Corinne | 03/17/2020
Photo of EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown next to red confetti backdrop and text congratulating her on acceptance to multiple masters programs.

EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown Accepted into Three Additional Masters Programs

By Jaeger, Corinne | 03/03/2020
Photo of EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown next to announcement of her acceptance to multiple Masters programs in History.

EWU McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown Accepted into Multiple Masters Programs

By Jaeger, Corinne | 02/21/2020
Madelyn Brown

McNair Scholar Madelyn Brown – Recipient of New Relationship Trust Scholarship and Gingolx Village Scholarships!

By Patolo, Najeda | 09/19/2019
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