International Symposium 2023

“Indigenous Heritage and Research Ethics”(Fri) 20th, (Sat), 21st and (Sun) 22nd January 2023
【Online】Zoom Webinar
Organizers :Hokkaido University Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity (GSI)
Hokkaido University Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies (CAIS)
Cooperation :Hokkaido Ainu Association

PROGRAM(Fri) 20th JAN

Symposium Social and Keynote Address

17:30

Doors Open for Networking

18:20-18:30

Greetings Prof. Taro Yamauchi, Hokkaido University

18:30-19:15

Keynote Speech Prof. Stanley Ulijaszek, University of Oxford“Nutritional Anthropology”

19:15-1945

Networking

19:45-19:50

Greetings Prof. Hirofumi Kato, Director of GSI, Hokkaido University(Sat) 21st JAN

Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes

09:00-09:05

Opening remarks/announcements

09:15-09:45

Report 1 Prof. Hirofumi Kato, Hokkaido University (Moderator)“Cultural landscape and embedded collective experiences: What can we learn from the Saru
river project?”

09:45-10:45

Report 2 Ms. Tamaki & Nagano Mr. Naoki Fujiya
Biratori Ainu Policy Promotion section, Cultural Environment Conservation Research Office“Twenty Years of Ainu Cultural and Environmental Conservation Projects”

10:45-11:00~~ Tea Break ~~11:00-11:45

Report 3 Dr. Tianxin Zhang, Peking University“Cultural landscape elements and their multi-cultural value evaluation in tourism development”

11:45-12:00
12:00-13:00

Comments Prof. Johan Edelheim, Hokkaido University~~ Lunch ~~1

13:00-13:45

Report 4 Dr. Thomas Thornton, University of Alaska“The conceptualization, representation, and conservation of Indigenous cultural landscapes inSoutheast Alaska: from cosmic Raven, to world heritage, to Indigenous care.”

13:45-14:30

Report 5 Dr. Sven Haakanson, University of Washington“Reclaiming our knowledge through our cultural collections”
Comments Prof. Jeff Gayman, Hokkaido University

14:30-14:45
14:45-15:00~~ Tea Break ~~15:00-15:45

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Mr. Yoshio Nakamura, President of Chitose Ainu Association“Challenges to Promote Ainu Culture in Chitose (tentative)”
15:45-17:00

General discussion(Sun) 22nd JAN Research Ethics, Repatriation, and Indigenous Participation
09:00-09:05

Opening remarks/announcements

09:15-10:00

Report 1 Prof. Joe Watkins, Hokkaido University & University of Arizona (Moderator)“Research Ethics and Indigenous Participation: How the Way We Think Affects How We
Interact with Communities”

10:00-10:45

Report 2 Dr. Carl-Gosta Ojala, Hokkaido University & Uppsala University“Repatriation of Sámi Cultural Heritage”

10:45-11:00~~ Tea Break ~~11:00-11:45

Report 3 Dr. Michael Pickering, Hokkaido University & Australian National University“Experiences and Issues in Australian First Nations Repatriation”

11:45-12:00

Comments Dr. Mayumi Okada, Hokkaido University

12:00-13:00~~ Lunch ~~13:00-13:45

Report 4 Dr. Jilda Andrews, Australian National University“Cultural Continuities – tackling the challenges of our time using with museum collections”

13:45-14:30

Report 5 Prof. Josh Snodgrass, University of Oregon“Minimally invasive biomarkers in health research among Indigenous peoples: Opportunities
and ethical considerations”

14:30-14:45

Comments Prof. Yasuo Tsuji, Hokkaido University

14:45-15:00~~ Tea Break ~~15:00-17:00

General discussion

17:00-17:20

Networking Dr. Sikopo Nyambe, Hokkaido University“GSI e-Journal Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity”

17:20-17:30

Closing Remarks Prof. Joe Watkins＊Simultaneous interpretation in both English and Japanese will be provided on 21st and 22nd January.
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Keynote Speech Prof. Stanley Ulijaszek
Stanley Ulijaszek is a professor of University of Oxford and a nutritional
anthropologist whose work centres on the evolutionary basis for, and cultural
diversity in, nutritional health. This includes both undernutrition and obesity, andthe diseases associated with them. He has carried out research in India, Nepal,
Sarawak, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, Poland, Italy andAustralia. He has published extensively, in research articles, edited volumes, andauthored books. He is Director of the Unit for BioCultural Variation and Obesity(www.oxfordobesity.org), which has strong cultural and policy orientations towards
obesity and the factors associated with it.
TITLE: Nutritional Anthropology
ABSTRACT: Of the most fundamental aspects of human adaptability are the need to obtain food from thebiological environment (nutrition), and defence against other organisms from using us as a living source of nutrition(infectious disease). This lecture will consider both factors from the perspective of nutritional anthropology. Thisconsiders human diet, past and present, in relation to nutritional health of societies and populations. Humans are
considered as the sum of their evolutionary history and more recent epigenetic and social pasts, as well as theirpresent-day social, cultural and biological life histories. The research agenda of this sub-discipline requires diverse
methods, ranging from ethnographic, historical and archaeological, to nutritional, epidemiological and anatomical.
It also requires considerable interdisciplinarity. This presentation focuses on aspects of nutritional anthropology
which engage with human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility, and present-day undernutrition and infection.
Obesity has emerged as a major phenomenon across recent decades, and the ecology of present-day obesity is also
considered, as something that is changing human relationships to disease.

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Report 1 Prof. Hirofumi Kato (Moderator)
Professor of Hokkaido University, specializing in Indigenous Archaeology andIndigenous Cultural Heritage. He currently organizes an international field school
on Rebun Island and is involved in collaborative research on cultural landscapeswith Ainu communities in Biratori and Teshikaga.
Director of Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity(GSI) andDirector of Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies (CAIS) of Hokkaido University:
Affiliate Professor of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
Uppsala University; Research fellow of Oxford Centre of Asian Archaeology, Art
and Culture, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford; Honorary Professor,
Irkutsk State University.
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TITLE: Cultural landscape and embedded collective experiences: What can we learn from the Saru river project?
ABSTRACT: Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan (1930-2022) said that landscapes are embedded with people's collective
experiences. Even seemingly natural landscapes are embedded with the memories, histories and narratives of local
people. It is not easy to bring out the diverse significance of Indigenous cultural heritage through existing
traditional Western academic knowledge. Here, the potential for collaboration between researchers andindigenous communities can be found. It is also important that such research is organised and carried out by local
communities. Local voices are very diverse and do not necessarily unite in one direction. It is a challenge for
future researchers to consider how to bring together the needs of this diverse community in a multifaceted way.
This report examines the issues raised by the Ainu cultural conservation project in the Saru River basin and thepossibilities for the future.
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Report 2 Ms. Tamaki & Nagano Mr. Naoki Fujiya
Biratori Ainu Policy Promotion section, Cultural Environment Conservation Research Office
TITLE: Twenty Years of Ainu Cultural and Environmental Conservation Projects
ABSTRACT: In Biratori Town, Saru-gun, Hokkaido, the Nibutani Dam (completed in 1996) and the Biratori
Dam (completed in 2022) were constructed on the lower reaches of the Saru River and its tributary, the NukabiraRiver, respectively, as part of the Saru River Integrated Development Project.
The Ainu people have lived in Biratori Town for many years. There are many important places related to Ainu
culture around the dam construction site, some of which went under the water or changed their topography by
being cut away due to the dam construction.
During planning the construction of the Biratori Dam, the Japanese government commissioned Biratori Town
to conduct a survey of the proposed site in order to consider measures to preserve the Ainu cultural environment.
Biratori Town established an assessment committee whose members consisted mainly of Ainu people living in thetown, along with several academic experts.
Concurrently with the construction plan for the Biratori Dam, a survey was conducted on the impact of thedam construction on various aspects of Ainu culture, including spiritual culture such as beliefs and rituals,
lifestyle and food culture, traditional agriculture, and living creatures such as plants, animals, and fish. A summary
report was prepared for the three-year period from 2003 to 2005, and survey work has continued since then. At
the same time, the construction of the Biratori Dam was carefully discussed over a long period of time between
the national government and the local Ainu people.
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Report 3 Dr. Tianxin Zhang
Dr. Zhang is an associate professor in College of Architecture and Landscape,Peking University. His research interests include urban design methodology andtheory, built-environment history, heritage preservation, national park planning,
tourism planning, etc. His research and planning projects include the Influence of
tourism on the Old Town of Lijiang as a world heritage, master planning of
Nanxijiang National Scenic Area, tourism planning of Fujin city, etc.
TITLE: Cultural landscape elements and their multi-cultural value evaluation intourism development
Zhang Tianxin1 and Yamamura Takayoshi2
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Associate professor of College of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University, China.

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Professor of Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University, Japan.

ABSTRACT: Cultural landscape is an important element in tourism development in and around indigenous andhistorical places. This paper compares the characteristic elements and compositional structure of culturallandscape in several islands in Kagoshima and Okinawa. They include Ishigaki, Yonaguni, Tokunoshima, Amami,
and Kakeroma islands. We take natural and cultural elements such as plants, animals, sacred site, traditional
economy products, space symbols, and houses to exemplify their connections with surrounding countries andregions. They show an Influence Spectrum that reflects the influence of different cultures in different historicalperiods. This research area corresponds with the Ryukyu Arc, and the concept of such a multi-cultural landscapecan be shared in many aspects with the Japonesia theory presented by Toshio Shimao. We further analyze theirutilization value in tourism development. They are effective in placing the region within an interconnected
cultural network, in demonstrating their important positions in international cultural communication, and inincreasing the local identity. It is therefore important to re-evaluate and protect the existed or potential culturallandscapes and to integrate them into a larger multi-layered heritage tourism framework.
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Report 4 Dr. Thomas Thornton
Dr. Thomas F. Thornton is currently Director of the Board on Environmental
Change and Society at the National Academies of Science, Engineering andMedicine in Washington DC, and affiliate research Professor of Environment andSociety at the University of Alaska’s Coastal Rainforest Center. From 2008-2018 hedirected the Environmental Change and Management program at the University of
Oxford, where he is currently an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of
Geography and the Environment. He has over 30 years of experience working with
communities around the North Pacific and Eurasia and has published over 100 peer
reviewed articles and 7 books mainly on environmental anthropology, humanecology, environmental change and adaptation, and cultural heritage and natural
resource management issues. His most recent books are Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a
Keystone Species (co-authored with Madonna Moss, U Washington Press, 2020) and the Routledge Handbook of5

Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (co-edited with Shonil Bhagwat, 2021). He is an adopted member of theTlingit Kaagwaantaan clan.
TITLE: The conceptualization, representation, and conservation of Indigenous cultural landscapes in Southeast
Alaska: from cosmic Raven, to world heritage, to Indigenous care.
ABSTRACT: Most Indigenous cultural landscapes in Southeast Alaska, as in other colonial settings, face issues of
mis-conceptualization, mis-representation, and mis-conservation, despite the increasing recognition ofIndigenous rights and policies supporting the protection of cultural heritage and incorporation of Traditional
Ecological Knowledge and tribal engagement in cultural resource management. This presentation will touch on
several case studies involving large parks and (semi) protected areas with transnational and transcultural
boundaries in Alaska-Canada, which the author has engaged with over the past several decades. The presentation
draws on the theoretical and analytical frameworks of historical ecology, ethnoecology, and political ecology, tounderstand and respond to conventional misreadings of important Indigenous cultural landscapes.
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Report 5 Dr. Sven Haakanson
Sven Haakanson is a leader in the documentation, preservation, and revival ofindigenous culture, including his own native Alaskan Sugpiaq traditions. He is arecipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2007), the ATALM Guardians of Culture andLifeways Leadership Award (2012), and his work on the Angyaaq led it to be
inducted into the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame (2020). He was the executive
Director of the Alutiiq Museum from 2000-2013, he then joined the University ofWashington as an associate professor of Anthropology and curator of Native
American collections at the Burke Museum in 2013 and is now the Chair of the
Anthropology Department. He played a central role in the design of the new Burke"Culture is Living" Gallery (2016-19).
TITLE: Reclaiming our knowledge through our cultural collections
ABSTRACT: For the past several centuries visitors have collected cultural pieces from the people theyencountered. They started as trade gifts, exchanges for materials, collections of exotic others, or were taken andor stolen through coercion of the people. The cultural pieces are not static in any way. They represent anembodied history of cultural heritages and knowledge that is now being reawakened within the communities they
were taken from in the past. For the past three decades, with my tribe from Kodiak Island -the Sugpiaq, I havebeen engaged with this process of reconnecting, researching, learning and now celebrating our knowledge, thatwas once thought to be gone, in a living context. As the world becomes more globally aware these collections arebeing reengaged by communities in ways no one ever thought possible. From Sugpiat masks collections that were
only known to reside in France and Russia, to open boat (angyaaq) vessels that had disappeared from our living
knowledge. I have worked to re-engage this knowledge so that our youth can celebrate and use these once again.

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These two are just examples of the many cultural pieces that are now being reawakened and celebrated byindigenous peoples from across the world once again.
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Report 6 President of Chitose Ainu Association
TITLE: Challenges to Promote Ainu Culture in Chitose (tentative)✧･━･✧･━･✧･━･✧･━･✧Commenter Johan Edelheim, PhD (Cultural Studies)
Professor of Tourism and Media at the Research Faculty of Media andCommunication & Graduate School of International Media, Communication andTourism Studies; at Hokkaido University
Professor Edelheim worked for more than a decade globally in the hospitality andtourism industries before becoming a secondary and tertiary educator. He has
diplomas and degrees from education, philosophy, cultural studies, hospitality, andbusiness. Behind most of his research lies a deeply rooted aim to care for human andmore-than-human others.
His research focuses on:a) the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), connected to tourism Higher Education;b) Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) connected to climate change, equality, identity, ethnicity and care;c) foundational philosophies of tourism and hospitality, especially ontology and axiology; andd) animal-related tourism (focused on domesticated companion animals).
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Full Professor, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Education and Hokkaido
University Research Faculty of Media and Communication. Research specialties:
Indigenous Education, educational anthropology. An American by nationality, Jeff
has been living and working in Japan for over thirty years, approximately twenty of
those in support of the Ainu people. Recent publications: Education and Ethnicity of
the Ainu People, in Michael Weiner (Ed), Routledge Handbook of Race andEthnicity in Asia (Routledge, 2021) and, The International Indigenous Movement
Reflected in Alaska Native Educational Strategies, in Chizu Satou (Ed) International
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(Sun) 22nd JAN
Report 1 Prof. Joe Watkins (moderator)
Prof. Joe Watkins, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a Senior
Consultant with Archaeological and Cultural Education (ACE) Consultants, LLC,
in Tucson, Arizona. He is a Visiting Professor here in the Global Station for
Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity, Hokkaido University, Japan, and at the
School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He is internationally known
for his publications on increasing the ethical practice of anthropology and the studyof its relationships with descendant communities in the United States, Australia,
New Zealand, and here in Japan. He was President of the Society for American
Archaeology from 2019-2021.
TITLE: Research Ethics and Indigenous Participation: How the Way We Think
Affects How We Interact with Communities
ABSTRACT: As anthropological researchers, we struggle to create codes of ethics about the ways we interact with
communities – Indigenous or otherwise. How should our code of ethics influence how we interact with our
Indigenous communities? How should our interaction with our Indigenous communities influence our code of
ethics? How much should our codes of ethics be influenced by non-anthropological communities? Or should ourcodes be merely documents crafted to provide “best practices” for practitioners without consideration of those on
whose cultures we work, rather than with? In this paper, I will give a brief history of the codes of ethics of various
North American anthropological associations. Following that, I will then discuss some of the things that led totheir development into the codes as they exist today. Then, I will discuss the ways that those codes haveconsidered the involvement of various communities over time. Finally, I will discuss some of the obstacles to theparticipation of Indigenous communities within anthropological research.
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Report 2 Dr. Carl-Gosta Ojala
Carl-Gösta Ojala is Senior Lecturer in archaeology at Uppsala University, Sweden,
and Associate Professor at the Global Institution for Collaborative Research and
Education, Hokkaido University, Japan.
His main research interests include archaeology and heritage in Northern
Fennoscandia, Sámi archaeology and heritage management, politics of archaeology,
and debates on cultural rights and indigeneity, decolonization, repatriation andreburial.
Ojala has been involved in several research projects investigating research historicalperspectives on northern archaeology in the Nordic countries and Russia, colonial histories and relations in
Sápmi, early modern collecting of Sámi material culture, 19th- and early 20th-century collecting of Sámi ancestral
remains, as well as present-day cultural revitalization and decolonization movements, and repatriation andreburial processes in Sápmi.

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TITLE: Contested colonial history and heritage in Sápmi: Colonial collecting, repatriation and heritage
management
ABSTRACT: In recent years, histories and legacies of Nordic colonialism in Sápmi have been increasingly
discussed by scholars, and the public awareness of the colonial dimensions of the past and present has been
growing. As part of this much needed broader examination of Nordic colonialism in Sápmi, there is also a needto recognize and critically examine histories and legacies of colonial collecting. These histories include, forexample, the early modern collecting of Sámi material culture, such as the sacred Sámi drums that wereconfiscated and collected in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the collecting of Sámi human remains in the 19thand early 20th centuries, as part of racial science and the assembling of craniological collections in the Nordic
countries.
At the same time, Sámi individuals, groups and institutions have raised demands for greater self-determinationin heritage issues and respect for Sámi cultural rights, which have included demands for repatriation and reburial.
This paper discusses some of the challenges for research and heritage institutions in this field of tension
between past and present. The paper addresses the current situation concerning repatriation and reburial
processes, and their wider implications and importance, in the Nordic countries, stressing the importance of
examining the politics, ethics and power dynamics of archaeology and heritage management.
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Report 3 Dr. Michael Pickering
Dr Michael Pickering is a researcher of Australian First Nations Heritage. He has
worked extensively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organizations,heritage agencies, and museums across Australia. From 2001 to 2022 Dr Pickering
worked at the National Museum of Australia focusing on Repatriation and First
Nations heritage.
He is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Heritage andMuseum Studies, Australian National University, an Associate Professor with the
Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity, Hokkaido University,and a Partner with the Centre for Australian Studies, Cologne University, Germany.
He has a wide range of research interests and has published articles on topics
ranging from material culture, cannibalism, settlement patterns, museum exhibitions, museum ethics, andrepatriation.
TITLE: Experiences and Issues in Australian First Nations Repatriation
ABSTRACT: This paper will first present an overview of the history of First Nations focused repatriation inAustralia. It will then move on to consider issues of research ethics, Indigenous participation, and Indigenous
repatriation, which have arisen over 30 years of repatriation activities.
Australian public museums, and government agencies, have long committed to the return of Ancestral Remains,
Secret – Sacred objects, and, on occasion, secular materials. Many practical approaches have been tested andrefined. Nonetheless, in this process particular conflicts have arisen, not so much in the area of practice as in theareas of governance, ethics, and ‘decolonising museum’ debates.
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The focus of public museums in Australia has been on practical repatriation activities. It is only relatively
recently that the associated areas of theory and philosophy of repatriation have been debated at length in both
popular and scholarly media.
The Australian experience, and responses, helps to inform both domestic and international institutional practice.
The close engagements with Australian First Nations peoples provide valuable case studies that can directly
inform other International First Nations communities.
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Report 4 Dr. Jilda Andrews
Dr Jilda Andrews is an Indigenous Australian cultural practitioner andmuseum ethnographer based in Canberra. Jilda draws from her heritage toinvestigate the connectedness of land, story and culture to objects inmuseum collections. Her focus on material culture and their associatedstories continues to push the definition of custodianship, from one which
is focused on the preservation of objects, to one which strives to maintainconnections between objects and the systems which produce them.
TITLE: Cultural Continuities – tackling the challenges of our time using with museum collections
ABSTRACT: For Indigenous Australians, domestic museum collections contain vast repositories of cultural
material of our past. These collections are by their nature contentious, collected through the course of western
academic ideas and enquiry. Increasingly, these collections are drawn upon to frame our histories and experiencesof colonisation and lifestyles and lifeways pre-colonisation. This paper explores some of the ways that we candraw on these collections in new ways and collaboratively, to help us step toward some of the major challenges ofour present and to lead us in to stronger futures that feature and respect Indigenous philosophies and ideas.
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Report 5 Prof. Josh Snodgrass
Josh Snodgrass is Professor of Anthropology and Global Health at the University ofOregon and serves as President of the Human Biology Association. Professor
Snodgrass has collaborated extensively with the World Health Organization,
including since 2007 on implementation of the Study on global AGEing and adult
health (SAGE). He also serves as co-director of the Global Health Biomarker
Laboratory and as co-director of the Shuar Health and Life History Project. His
research centers on the influence of social and environmental factors on health,biomarkers of physiology and health obtained using minimally invasive techniques,
and the evolution of the human diet.
TITLE: Minimally invasive biomarkers in health research among Indigenous peoples: Opportunities and ethicalconsiderations
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J. Josh Snodgrass1,2,3, Alicia M. DeLouize1, Madeleine Getz1, Lawrence S. Sugiyama1, and Felicia C. Madimenos4
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Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon

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Center for Global Health, University of Oregon

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Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity, Hokkaido University

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Department of Anthropology, Queens College (CUNY)

ABSTRACT: Biomarkers—biological measures that serve as indicators of health status, physiological response,
environmental exposure, and/or disease susceptibility—have been used extensively in human biology and related
disciplines to examine how social and environmental factors shape physiology and health, as well as to provide
epidemiological data and medical information on the health of underserved communities. The development ofminimally invasive techniques, such as finger prick blood collection with point-of-care testing, has been
particularly valuable when working with Indigenous communities, for whom gaps in health services are often
pronounced and disease burden is disproportionately higher because of myriad geographic, economic, political,
and sociohistorical factors. In this paper, we review the use of minimally invasive biomarkers in population-based
research among Indigenous groups. We then describe our community-based collaborative research in the Shuar
Health and Life History Project (Amazon region, Ecuador) and the Indigenous Siberian Health and Adaptation
Project (Sakha Republic, Russia), discussing how we partnered with communities and how they benefitted fromthe project. We highlight important ethical considerations, including emphasizing researcher responsibilities for:1) protecting and respecting communities; 2) safeguarding medical information; 3) making long-term community
structural investments and creating pathways towards improving health; and 4) addressing complicated issues ofdata sovereignty.
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Associate Professor at Office of Ainu Relations and Initiatives (aynu sisam urespa ukopirkare us i)/Center for
Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University✧･━･✧･━･✧･━･✧･━･✧Commenter Prof. Yasuo Tsuji
Professor at Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University
He is specialized in political theory, and working on multicultural and Indigenous
issues. He has been considering how to apply various theories to Japanese contexts.

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Networking Dr. Sikopo Nyambe
Sikopo is an Assistant Professor for the Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, and
the Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity (GSI) at Hokkaido
University. She also acts as the Editorial Manager for GSI’s new e-journal, namely‘Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity’. Sikopo has a B.A in Education(Psychology and French language), M.A in Child and Adolescent Psychology and a Ph.
D in Health Sciences. Her research interests focus on participatory action research andparticipatory research methodologies as a means of improving transdisciplinary
research and engaging with diverse peoples and societies.

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Acknowledgement
This program was supported by JSPS Core-to-Core Program, International Research Networks for Indigenous
Studies and Cultural Diversity (Grant number: PG7E210001) and KAKENHI Grant Number 21H04352202.

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