Tribal Cumulative Impacts (tci) – Research Support Contract

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Summary from the notice

Pre-Solicitation Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source to Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians for the requirement titled TRIBAL CUMULATIVE IMPACTS (TCI) – RESEARCH SUPPORT under Solicitation 68HERC25R0046 The Government hereby submits a notice of intent for an anticipated five-year contract for research support for a pilot study in collaboration with the Bad River Band to explore cumulative environmental impacts on community-level health. This government-to-government partnership and resulting pilot study titled “Tribal Cumulative Impacts” (TCI) will be guided by culturally relevant participatory research approaches grounded in decolonizing and transdisciplinary methodology. Specifically, partners will seek to quantify cumulative environmental exposures, from chemical and non-chemical stressors, across several socio-environmental domains (i.e., air, water, land, built, sociodemographic) and other culturally significant domains identified by the Bad River Band. Initial scoping discussions between partners suggest the domains to be reflective of the Four Orders of Creation – air, water, land, fire as well as spirituality, built environment, and sociodemographic factors. The partnership will also seek to assess associations with cumulative environmental exposures and health outcomes at the community-level. Our project will be viewed as animate alive and act as a building block to benefit future generations and a greater good for the Bad River Band by provid…