This article explores the meaning of community-driven and owned science in the context of an Inuit-led land-based program, the Young Hunters Program. It is the foundational program of the Arviat Aqqiumavvik Society, situated in Nunavut, Canada, a community-led group dedicated to researching challenges to community wellness and designing and delivering programs to help address those challenges. We show how the program emerged locally and blends Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) with tools of western science in respectful ways given its core sits within and emerges from what Inuit have always known to be true. We offer a description of six dimensions inherent in Inuit cultural practices and beliefs and foundational to the program activities and show how they open up various learning trajectories and possibilities for the involved young people to engage in community science. We then discuss in what ways the revitalization of IKS and practices led to community science projects that were locally meaningful and empowering with important implications for scientific work that mattered in light of locally experienced and devastating climate change threats. The study speaks to the importance of rebuilding relations and decolonizing knowledge systems and science practices, two key tools to Inuit self-determination and social transformations, and essential to achieving more social justice and equity in and beyond community science.

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通过社区驱动和拥有的科学重建关系并对抗擦除：因纽特人自决和社会转型的关键工具

本文探讨了在因纽特人主导的陆上计划“青年猎人计划”的背景下，社区驱动和拥有的科学的意义。它是位于加拿大努纳武特地区的 Arviat Aqqiumavvik 协会的基础项目，该协会是一个社区领导的团体，致力于研究社区健康面临的挑战，并设计和实施帮助应对这些挑战的项目。我们展示了该计划如何在当地出现，并如何以尊重的方式将土著知识系统（IKS）与西方科学工具融合在一起，因为其核心源于因纽特人一直以来所知道的真理。我们描述了因纽特文化习俗和信仰固有的六个维度，也是项目活动的基础，并展示了它们如何为参与社区科学的年轻人开辟各种学习轨迹和可能性。然后，我们讨论 IKS 和实践的振兴如何导致社区科学项目对当地有意义，并对科学工作产生重要影响，考虑到当地经历的毁灭性气候变化威胁。该研究谈到了重建关系以及知识体系和科学实践去殖民化的重要性，这是因纽特人自决和社会转型的两个关键工具，对于在社区科学内外实现更多社会正义和公平至关重要。然后，我们讨论 IKS 和实践的振兴如何导致社区科学项目对当地有意义，并对科学工作产生重要影响，考虑到当地经历的毁灭性气候变化威胁。该研究谈到了重建关系以及知识体系和科学实践去殖民化的重要性，这是因纽特人自决和社会转型的两个关键工具，对于在社区科学内外实现更多社会正义和公平至关重要。然后，我们讨论 IKS 和实践的振兴如何导致社区科学项目对当地有意义，并对科学工作产生重要影响，考虑到当地经历的毁灭性气候变化威胁。该研究谈到了重建关系以及知识体系和科学实践去殖民化的重要性，这是因纽特人自决和社会转型的两个关键工具，对于在社区科学内外实现更多社会正义和公平至关重要。