06/10/2026
Congratulations Anthropology MA student Bobette Haskett on winning the Jessica Mae Orozco Indigenous Ethnobiologist Fellowship!!
Their project is entitled: “My Indigenous Perspective: How Tribal Cultural Practices Can Perpetuate Healing Mentally, Physically and Spiritually”.
You can read more on their project at the Society for Ethnobiology website or below:
“Egi Davaiye, Ne Tsaan Neesungahka” (Shoshone Language), “This day I feel good”. Hello, my name is Bobette K. Haskett, I am a Shoshone-Bannock Tribal member, from the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. I am in the Anthropology and Languages Graduate Program at Idaho State University, in Pocatello, Idaho. I am working to finish my research thesis, investigating how traditional Tribal and cultural ways can play a critical role in the healing of intergenerational historical trauma within and for my own Tribe. Traditional cultural methods like making tools, hunting and fishing, gathering plants for food and medicine, social gatherings, and spiritual ceremonies, have been taught to generations of Shoshone and Bannock people for millennia. Long ago, their existence was dependent on this cultural knowledge to help them survive and carry on through the most challenging times in their history. Today, I believe these cultural practices can still save and heal Indigenous people. My research methods include autoethnography and ethnography, gathering stories and experiences from Tribal members through focus groups and interviews, all discussing how traditional practices may have helped them to heal. Teaching and sharing Tribal cultural ways to my people, both young and old, is a priority for me and I have taught cultural history, traditional arts/crafts and weaving for close to twenty years. I am a wife, mother, and grandmother, who absolutely adores her grandchildren. My hobbies include beadwork, buckskin hide tanning, weaving, mountain biking, traveling and spending time with family camping, hiking, and fishing. My hope is that my research study will help influence the use of practicing cultural ways to heal from historic trauma and foster a rejuvenation in Indigenous cultural therapeutic healing to help cope with traumatic experiences mentally, physically, and spiritually. I desire my Tribal people to heal, feel peace and have a sense of reconciliation in their lives.
