Joshua Tree National Park, CA: Paid Tribal Youth Intern/Oral Historian, The Great Basin Institute
Great Basin Institute
Joshua Tree National Park

In cooperation with the National Park Service Joshua Tree National Park
(JOTR), the Great Basin Institute is recruiting a Tribal Youth Intern. Joshua
Tree National Park has identified a need to provide multiple voices into its
management and visitor programs. This project is intended to integrate
multiple disciplines and park themes such as Native American traditional
culture, homesteading, natural resource, and popular culture, by combining the
stories associated with the individual museum objects from both a global and
personal perspective. The Tribal Youth Intern will work closely with park
professional in the development of research content for park staff in
developing public programs utilizing information tribal members feel the
public should know about their cultural history, and expand the park's ability
to share an accurate enriched narrative. Orientation and safety trainings will
be presented throughout the year.

  
Duties:

The Research Associate, in collaboration with Joshua Tree National Park staff,
will be involved in all aspects of researching, developing, and presenting
educational materials for visitor education programs focusing on the following
duties:

• Conduct original ethnographic research using archives and conducting oral
history interviews with tribal elders and traditional practitioners in the
field;

• Work with park museum curator and interpretive staff to develop interpretive
content based on the research;

• Work with interpretive staff to develop and present public programs based on
NPS interpretive standards and methods;

• Collaborate with park museum curator and interpretive staff to design web
page content for the park's web page and social media outlets; and

• Assist with other interpretive and museum projects (oral history, visitor
services, and topical research).

  
Contract Timeline:

o 6-month appoinment beginning as soon as the right candidate is identified.
Start date determined once federal background check is complete. Possibility
of extension pending positive performance review and funding availability.

  
o Part time, 10-30 hours per week, including some weekends and evenings



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