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Review of official responsibility for the Salish Sea marine environment
This paper introduces official responsibility for the protection and management of the Salish Sea marine environment. Focusing on governments and their legally constituted bodies, the complex management structures on the American and Canadian sides of the Salish Sea are identified. Both countries operate in cooperative federalist systems, but there exist differences in management structures arising notably from constitutional differences, Tribal and First Nation relations, and jurisdictional authority. Both state and provincial governments have the authority to create and enforce environmental regulations but are constrained by federal legislation. Collaborative and stakeholder-engaged environmental planning and stewardship have been recognized on both sides of the border. Past and present efforts support bottom-up organizational structures that give community members and scientists a greater voice in decision-making, in partnership with government. More evidence exists of community- and state-level autonomy in Washington compared to British Columbia. Political and administrative boundaries have been recognized by some as counter to needs of environmental management, with an alternative and preferred approach being the use of ecological planning units such as watersheds or estuaries. The international boundary dividing the Salish Sea remains an administrative and organizational impediment despite evidence of trans-boundary collaborative efforts. -
Salish Sea Circulation Diagram
Diagram of deep water flows and intermediate and surface water flows in the Salish Sea. It provides direction and relative magnitude (line width) of net water flow and exchanges for marine waters and freshwater rivers. -
How to Read an Academic Paper
Informational video introducing students to the techniques involved in reading scholarly literature and extracting information quickly. It discusses reading through papers in three passes and questions to ask while reading. -
How to Read a Scholarly Article
Video workshop on how to identify peer reviewed scholarly articles, common sections in science and social science research, a note on humanities research, and reading strategies. -
Land
Book section from Native Studies Keywords examining the perspectives and history of the term and concept of “land” in Native American studies projects. Land relates to other terms like sovereignty, belonging, rights, and responsibility. -
Food Sovereignty: A Growing Movement
Podcast episode from All My Relations with guest Valerie Segrest (Muckleshoot), a Native nutrition educator, about Indigenous food systems, traditional foods, and the food sovereignty movement and activists. -
Native Studies Keywords
Volume analyzing the history of the words sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous knowledge in Native American studies projects. Sections contain essays with perspectives on definitions, meanings, and significance of the concepts within historical, social, and political contexts. -
NWIC Cooperative Extension
Vimeo profile for the Northwest Indian College Cooperative Extension in Bellingham, Washington, who provides community education on topics including Financial Literacy for Native American families, Traditional Plants and Foods, Cultural Arts, professional development, and health and wellness activities. -
Indigenous Time Travel
Video of discussion with Susan Blight and Peter Morin about spatial knowledge, thinking beyond decolonization, expansiveness, and kinship. -
GRuB
Vimeo profile for the nonprofit organization GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty) who brings people together with food and agriculture and creates partnerships with youth and people with low-incomes for empowering individual & community food solutions. -
The Story of 13 Moons: Developing an Environmental Health and Sustainability Curriculum Founded on Indigenous First Foods and Technologies
Journal article about the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s development of an informal environmental health and sustainability curriculum for teaching science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics with a basis in Swinomish beliefs and practices. The curriculum focuses on free-choice learning and increasing awareness. -
Imagine if Toronto were reclaimed by nature
Video introducing the Indigenous futurism virtual reality experience by Filmmaker Lisa Jackson and 3D Artist Mathew Borrett. Biidaaban: First Light reflects on systems of governance as it imagines a future Toronto through the languages Wendat, Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Anishinaabe (Ojibway). -
Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) | Full Film
Stop-motion short film directed by Amanda Strong tells the story of Biidaaban, a young gender non-binary Anishinaabe person who joins forces with a 10,000-year-old shape-shifting Sasquatch, a Ghost Caribou, and a Ghost Wolf to revive ceremonial sap harvesting in suburban Ontario, Canada. -
Curriculum, Replacement, and Settler Futurity
Journal article by Eve Tuck and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández describes how settler colonialism and white settler supremacy shape the past and present of “curriculum” in the United States through strategies of replacement, which is described as goal of replacing Indigenous peoples with settlers as the ones rightfully on the land. The authors use the character of Natty Bumppo from James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales as an allegory for the replacement project. The authors also apply concepts like critical race theory, “browning,” rematriation, and refusal. -
Interview with Peter Morin
Peter Morin, a Tahltan Nation artist and curator, discusses the anthropological museum space, experience working with the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, the polemics of art institutions, the gallery space, racism and microaggression, Indigenous power in the museum space, and Tahltan knowledge. -
Oka Apesvchi: Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and Protest
Essay by Bethany Hughes (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) analyzing protest performances about water using the Indigenous feminist concept of radical relationality to elaborate on relations and obligations of humans and water. -
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
Indigenous Action Media article argues that the concept of allyship is increasingly commodified and exploited in ways that benefit off the struggles they say to support. The article discusses the term accomplice as an alternative to ally. -
What The Heck Is Afrofuturism?
HuffPost article by Jamie Broadnax describes the Afrofuturism cultural movement and its differences from other science and speculative fiction. Broadnax refers to Afrofuturist media like the Black Panther comics and film and Octavia E. Butler’s novels. -
Scales of Change - A Field Guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction
Podcast series published by Future Ecologies with support from the University of Victoria brings on guests for each episode to help describe the psychology of climate inaction. The show provides examples and ways to grow the movement of climate action. -
Federal Judge George Boldt issues historic ruling affirming Native American treaty fishing rights on February 12, 1974.
Essay about the Boldt Decision, which reaffirmed the rights of tribes in Washington state to fish in accustomed locations. The essay elaborates on the movement to reassert fishing rights through “fish-ins” in the Puyallup River let by Robert Satiacum and Billy Frank Jr. -
Terminal
Podcast episode from Future Ecologies discusses the implications of urbanization in British Columbia’s Fraser River Estuary to the Orca pod, salmon, and other wildlife. The episode focuses on the creation of a new ferry terminal, the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2), on Tsawwassen First Nation's traditional territory. -
Challenging racist "British Columbia": 150 years and counting
Booklet on the history of racist policies in British Columbia and their impacts on Indigenous, Black, and radicalized communities. It also elaborates on the anti-racist movements of the past and present. -
Tied US Supreme Court decision means Washington must remove barriers to salmon migration
Seattle Times article on the result of the 9th Circuit ruling to leave in place a lower court order requiring state governments to pay for the removal of culverts blocking fish migration. The decision is a victory for recognizing Treaty-protected fishing rights and salmon recovery in Washington State. -
Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855
The complete text of the Point Elliott Treaty, signed by Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, and by Duwamish Chief Seattle, Snoqualmie Chief Patkanim, Lummi Chief Chow-its-hoot, and other chiefs, subchiefs, and delegates of tribes, bands, and villages. -
Ferndale Schools - Inaugural Treaty Day Recognition, 2020
Documentary by Children of The Setting Sun about the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855. The film discusses what the treaty is, why it is important, and Lummi history. -
Explainer: What’s an Environmental Impact Statement?
The Urbanist article defining an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and how it is used as a decision-making tool. The article explains concepts like alternatives, elements, criteria, scoping, public outreach. It also provides advice on how to read an EIS for content and comment. -
Sources of corrosive bottom water to Bellingham Bay, Washington State
Research article in Estuaries and Coasts by Western Washington University Professor David H. Shull aimed at understanding the processes leading to Bottom water acidification in Bellingham Bay relating to Pacific Ocean upwelling and Nooksack River circulation. -
Salmon: More Than Just Food
Video by the Northwest Indian College where Squamish Fisherman Rob Purser explains salmon preparation, salmon preparation, prayer, and salmon’s importance to the forests and streams. -
Chief: Salmon Woman
Video of Lummi Nation hereditary chief Bill James telling the story of Salmon Woman. -
Ancient clam gardens, traditional management portfolios, and the resilience of coupled human-ocean systems
Journal article from Ecology and Society surveying the central coast of British Columbia, Canada for evidence of intertidal clam gardens, an Indigenous mariculture technology and practice for food security and resilience. -
Historical Indigenous land-use explains plant functional trait diversity
Journal article from Ecology and Society about a systematic study of the impact of Indigenous land-use legacies on plant functional diversity in Pacific Northwest forest garden ecosystems. -
A Wall Worth Building: Making Clam Habitat Great Again
On a small island off Canada’s west coast, a group of people is rebuilding ancient clam gardens. -
Clams: Growing in Community Together
Video by Northwest Indian College where Muckleshoot Oral Historian George Warren King and Samish Tribal Member and Western Washington University Professor Dr. Marco Hatch explain clam preparation methods by Coast Salish people, biotoxins in clams, and clam shells’ ecosystem services. -
The effect of climate change on glacier ablation and baseflow support in the Nooksack River basin and implications on Pacific salmonid species protection and recovery
Research article about the effect of climate change on the hydrology of the Nooksack River. It focuses on how glacial melt changes river flow and water temperature and affects salmon. It discusses the collaboration between the Nooksack Indian Tribe near Deming, Washington, government agencies, and scientists to plan for habitat restoration. -
Homecoming: Restoring A River
Film by American Rivers about the removal of Washington’s Middle Fork Nooksack dam, which blocked fish habitat and impacted local tribes. It also mentions other dam removal projects and river restoration with support of American Rivers and local communities. -
Nettles: Generations of Traditional Knowledge
Film by Longhouse Media and the Traditional Plants and Food Program where Elise Krohn, an herbalist and wild foods educator, discusses information about safe harvesting practices, where nettles grow, nutrients and health benefits. -
Introduction to Mount Baker and the Nooksack River Watershed
Section in Climate Driven Retreat of Mount Baker Glaciers and Changing Water Resources about the North Fork, Middle Fork, and South Fork Nooksack River, and glacier runoff and retreat on Mount Baker. -
Where is the Salish Sea?
ArcGIS StoryMap of the geography of the Salish Sea Bioregion, containing maps and facts about the bioregion, the Coast Salish peoples, waters and islands, watersheds, and more data resources. -
How Nettle Saved the People
Northwest Indian College Institute of Indigenous Foods and Traditions presents a traditional story told by storyteller Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha) about a man’s dreams about the gathering of nettle to help his people. -
People - Lummi Legends: Cuomo Kulshan's Last Potlatch (audio)
Audio recording of artist, teacher, and storyteller Pauline Hillaire telling the legend as told by her father, Kwul-Kwul-'tu, about chief Cuomo Kulshan (Mount Baker), his wife (Mount Rainier), and his daughters (Twin Sister Mountain). -
Survivors of the Flood Story
Lummi Nation Elder Chief Ts’ili’xw (Bill James) shares the story, 'We are survivors of the great flood.' He explains the origin of the “-mish” people (Samish, Dwamish, etc.), who come from the Lhaqtemish people who survived the flood on two canoes. -
Chapter 1 – Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science
Introductory chapter from the book Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science by Gloria Snively and Wanosts’a7 Lorna Williams about cross-cultural Science Education. It focuses on the dismissal of contextual Traditional Knowledge and wisdom in Eurocentric educational systems and the experiences of students. -
Cedar Box Teaching Toolkit
Educational resource and curriculum about important Native foods and cultural traditions in Salish Country with recipes, activities, and stories. There are sections on ecosystems, harvest ethics, cedar, water, camas, cattail, clams, deer and elk, duck, hazelnut, huckleberry, nettle, salal, salmon, seaweed, and strawberry. -
The 13 Moons of the Wsanec
List for curriculum lesson by Gary Fletcher from the booklet “The Saanich Year” by Earle Claxton and John Elliott. Calendars of the 13 Moons of the Wsanec (Saanich people) are listed with information, connections, background, weather, and economic activities related to each. -
Samish 13 Moons
ArcGIS StoryMap of the Samish calendars with a lunar year of 13 moons in one Xws7ámesh Schel7óneng (Samish year). It provides information of the traditions and seasonal plants of the moons in Chents’ólheng Season (Winter), Chenqw’íles Season (Spring), Chenkw’á7les Season (Summer), and Píxwel Season (Fall). -
Map of the Salish Sea & Surrounding Basin
Map of Salish Sea, with elevation and bathymetry data, extending from the north end of the Strait of Georgia to the south end of the Puget sound and west to the mouth of the Straight of Juan de Fuca. Map text focuses on natural features rather than political jurisdictions. -
The Fraser River
Rivershed Society presents a film highlighting the history and challenges of salmon in Vancouver, British Columbia’s Fraser River. -
Hostile Waters: Orcas in Peril
The Seattle Times story series on the struggle of northern and southern resident killer whales (orcas) in the Puget Sound. Articles discuss salmon decline, the impact of ships, climate change, and other human impacts on orca population. -
Assessment of the trans mountain pipeline and tanker expansion proposal
The Tskeuk-Waututh Nation’s assessment of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMEX) proposal in accordance with the Nation’s Stewardship Policy. The document reviews proposed plans and policies within their Consultation Area, including Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, British Columbia. “It describes the seriousness of the potential effects of the TMEX proposal on Tsleil-Waututh title, rights, and interests.” -
Alphabet | Halq'eméylem | FirstVoices
Resource on Halq'eméylem (Halkomelem) alphabet, with sections on words, phrases, songs, and stories. Halkomelem is a language of the Salishan language family and is spoken by the Stó:lō Nation (sometimes written ''Stó:lô'' or ''Stó:lõ'', historically as ''Staulo'’), who inhabit the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada.