Salish Sea Curriculum Repository

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• Sen̓áḵw

  Website describing the Squamish Nation's sustainable economic development and design project on Sen̓áḵw Lands, a Squamish Village location that was located where Vancouver City, British Colombia is today. The project focuses on reconciliation and Squamish leadership with climate, urban development, and economic development.

• ‎How to Survive the End of the World

  Podcast series by Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown, who are writers, activists, and facilitators. The podcast focuses on community practices and learning in the midst of endings and apocalypse.

• The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance

  Episode of Emergence Magazine Podcasts features an essay written and spoken by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) about reciprocity in the gift economy and learning from Indigenous wisdom about currencies of exchange while harvesting serviceberries alongside birds.

• Army Announces Modified Plan For Ala Wai Flood Project

  Hawai’i Public Radio presents a news article about a modified plan for the Ala Wai Flood Control Project after public resident opposition. The Army Corps of Engineers proposed a method to reduce flood risk and increase climate adaptation in the Ala Wai Watershed for residents living along the Makiki, Mānoa, and Pālolo streams.

• Ala Wai Flood Risk Management Project

  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website page providing details on the Ala Wai Flood Risk Management Project and overview, location, flooding impact, and flood risk of the Ala Wai Watershed.

• Hawai'i Non-Linear Conversation with Chris Leong, Dominic Leong, Sean Connelly and Sanford Kwinter

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Lecture Series presents a Research Studio conversation about the empowerment of Indigenous Hawaiian Knowledge and the ecological devastation and racial injustices of U.S. settler colonialism. Hawai’i Non-Linear connects the lifestyle of Indigenous Knowledge to architecture.
  

• Trucking industry working to get around catastrophic B.C. highway closures

  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news presents a story about the impacts of British Columbia, Canada highway closures due to flooding and landslides. Truckers work to reduce supply chain disruption.

• Cascadia Vision 2050 Report Argues Hub-Cities Can Solve Affordability and Sustainability Challenges

  The Urbanist presents a news article on proposals for high-speed transit between hub cities to improve housing affordability and reduce environmental concerns during continued development of the Cascadia mega-region, including Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Cascadia Needs New Zoning, Not New Cities

  The Urbanist presents an article that argues that the Canada Vision 2050 proposal to develop four hub cities from British Columbia to Oregon for development will not sufficiently support growth. The article offers other ways to promote sustainable development and growth.

• Cascadia Innovation Corridor Highlights

  Microsoft presents a video about the proposed collaboration between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia for a corridor for connectivity, productivity, and innovation.
  

• Indigenous Activists Say the Legacy Of Colonialism Has Limited Their Access To COP-26

  National Public Radio presents a podcast episode about Indigenous youth activists at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Indigenous activists from around the world talk about the impacts of colonialism on the lack of access to the conference.
  

• Direct Impacts of Northwest Refinery Pollution

  Sightline Institute presents an article on the negative impacts of Washington State oil refineries’ air and water pollution on human health and wildlife. The article discusses health risks, Clean Air Act violations, and impacts on communities like Anacortes, Ferndale, Tacoma and the Swinomish Tribe.

• Oil Refinery Profits, Taxes, and Spending: A Primer

  Sightline Institute presents an article on oil refinery profits and tax payments in Washington State. The article discusses the economic impacts and environmental costs of the industry.

• Oil Refinery Workforce 411

  Sightline Institute presents an article on oil refinery employment in Washington State, especially Whatcom and Skagit counties. It discusses pay, safety, and a history of striking to demand safer working conditions.

• Two Possible Futures for Northwest Oil Refining

  Sightline Institute presents an article on possible futures for oil refining in Washington State as climate change shifts energy demands away from oil.

• Southern Resident Orca Task Force: Final report and recommendations

  Report from Cascadia Consulting Group discusses the purpose and progress of the task force to develop recommendations addressing the decline of the Southern Resident orca population and the threats of extinction due to less Chinook salmon, disturbance from traffic, toxic contaminants, and climate change and population growth.

• Bellingham Working Waterfront

• Colonizing and Decolonizing History Tour of Bellingham

  Video of history professor Josh Cerretti leading a tour of downtown Bellingham, Washington, focused on the landmarks and history of colonial settlement on Indigenous Coast Salish land and water. The tour discusses Bellingham’s history of white supremacy and racism that continues today.
  

• The Waterlines Project Map

  Map by the Burke Museum shows an aerial view of the landscape of the area that now is Seattle in the mid-19th century before colonial settlement. It contains Coast Salish place names, ecosystems, and tours between locations.

• City of the Changers

  Journal article from Pacific Historical Review depicts the experiences of the Duwamish and other Indigenous peoples during urban change of Seattle, Washington between the 1880s and 1930s. It talks about transformation like the creation of a canal between Puget Sound and Lake Washington and the straightening of the Duwamish River.

• The History of Northwest Refineries

  Sightline Institute presents an article on how the history of oil refining in the Puget Sound is linked to colonialism. It discusses how refineries were built on Lummi, Swinomish, and Puyallup peoples’ land.

• Making Room: A Transitional Tiny Home Community

  ArcGIS StoryMap of a community-based participatory research project in Victoria, British Columbia by the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, Island Health, and University of Victoria. It is dedicated to spreading awareness about site-supportive transitional housing and breaking the cycle of houselessness.

• Musqueam Place Names Map

  Interactive map of Musqueam Territory place names with historical photographs, audio from Musqueam’s oral history collection, and a children’s place names book. Vancouver, British Columbia is seated on Musqueam Territory.

• Nervous Hybridity: Bodies, Spaces, and the Displacements of Empire

  Book section from Urbanizing frontiers: Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities. This section focuses on Indigenous peoples and settlers in Victoria, British Columbia from 1858 to 1871. Gold rushes and narratives of European progress transformed spaces and bodies.

• Planning Since Time Immemorial: Musqueam Perspectives

  Book section from Planning on the Edge: Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development. The book proposes planning and policies for the Indigenous population to reduce social inequality and housing insecurity in Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene

  English Language Notes research article about Indigenous and allied scholars, knowledge keepers, scientists, learners, change-makers, and leaders building a field and plans to address human-caused climate change.

• Clyde Bellecourt: “Custer Died for Your Sins” Convocation (1971)

  Video of civil rights organizer Clyde Bellecourt’s convocation speech at Augsburg College focused on the treatment of the American Indian community. The title refers to Vine Deloria, Jr.’s manifesto by the same name. Bellecourt talks about the problems of Christianity, education, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  

• Salish Sea Stream Discharge Diagram

  Map of Salish Sea major rivers and average stream discharge in cubic meters per second based on annual averages.

• Salish Sea Land Cover

  Map of land cover in the Salish Sea bioregion with the categories of urban, cropland, forest, other vegetation, bare ground, water, snow and ice land cover modeled using 30x30 meter resolution gridded satellite data from 2015.

• Salish Sea Maps

  A collection of maps archieved by the Salish Sea Institute in WWU Library's Cedar archive.

• Salish Sea Population Density

  Map of human population density in the Salish Sea as people per square kilometer mapped for each census block.

• Salish Sea Jurisdictions

  Map of jurisdictions including U.S. counties, Canadian regional districts, and major cities (Bellingham, Everett, Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, and Victoria) in the Salish Sea Bioregion.
  

• Salish Sea and Western North America Watersheds Contextual Landscape

  Map of the Salish Sea’s surrounding watersheds in Western North America, including the Columbia, Fraser, Great Basin, Makenzie, Mississippi, Nelson, Yukon. The Pacific Ocean and Arctic Ocean are also visible.
  

• Marine Basins

  Map of subbasins (or sub-basins) and bathymetry of the Salish Sea with basins delineated based on water depth and circulation. Shallower areas associated with underwater sills separate many of the basins, creating distinct oceanography. Basins shown include: Admiralty Inlet, Central Puget Sound, East Strait of Juan de Fuca, Hood Canal, South Puget Sound, San Juan Archipelago, South Strait of Georgia, Strait of Georgia, West Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Whidbey.
  

• 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.