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• 'No One Asked for an Ethnography.' Reflections on Community-based Anthropology in Coast Salish Country
  Anthropology journal article about community-based work for Edmonds Community College students’ place-based learning, Coast Salish partners’ and native students’ requests for involvement and “passing the mic,” and the role and uses of ethnography for tribal and non-tribal governments.
• 'Significant day': Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Canada sign Burrard Inlet stewardship agreement
  A newspaper article documenting the signing of the Burrard Inlet stewardship agreement by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Canada in 2021. The agreement includes a $20 million investment to support environmental restoration, and allows the Tsleil-Waututh community to strengthen and maintain their connection to the water.
• "We monitor by living here": community-driven actualization of a social-ecological monitoring program based in the knowledge of Indigenous harvesters
  
  A 2019 study co-authored by Gitga’at First Nation and University of Victoria researchers that developed a social-ecological monitoring program rooted in Indigenous knowledge. It is intended to serve as a model for integrating Indigenous knowledge into ecological monitoring efforts.
• "Why didn't I know this?": Land education as an antidote to settler colonialism in early childhood education
  A 2021 article arguing that land education in early childhood education disrupts settler colonial narratives by centering Indigenous knowledge and environmental relationships. The authors argue that this approach supports critical reflection of education and supports decolonizing education.
• 100% Carbon Offset - Blackcomb Helicopters - Fly Carbon Neutral
  Blackcomb Helicopters' video documenting their sustainable carbon offsetting business model on Quadra Island. Their mission is to neutralize the emissions from their helicopters by permanently preserving the existing forests, encouraging other high-emission businesses to follow suit.
• 13 Moons First Foods Resource Curriculum
  
  This program is built on the definition of health, including environmental health, as founded on the cooperative relationships between humans, non-humans, and their environment.
• 2020 Sustainability Report - Western Forest Products
  Sustainability report from Western Forest Products. It compiles information on company values, workforce demographics, sustainability models in response to climate change, and their efforts to create collaborative Indigenous relationships in Vancouver and the B.C. Coast.
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• 2030 Olympic Bid
  Webpage detailing the 2030 Olympic Bid made by four nations: Lil̓wat7úl (Lil’wat), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). This would be the first Indigenous-led bid in history, aiming for reconciliation through sport. The webpage has since been updated, stating that the B.C. Government is not in support of this bid.
• A Conversation with Seattle Times Environmental Journalist, Lynda Mapes
  
  ​​Lynda Mapes talks about how she got to where she is and orca (killer) whales in the Salish Sea during her talk at the Western Washington University College of the Environment (previously Huxley) Speaker Series.
• A Conversation with Washington State Representative Debra Lekanoff
  
  A video of a conversation with Debra Lekanoff, a Washington State Representative and member of the Tlingit Tribe, at Western Washington University. She discusses challenges, progress, and goals for the environmental health and climate of the Salish Sea and Washington State.
• 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.
• Aboriginal Fisheries in British Columbia
  Indigenous Foundations at the University of British Columbia presents information on Aboriginal fishing since time immemorial, Coast Salish harvesting methods, the introduction of canneries and a wage-based economy, the creation of an Aboriginal “food fishery,” and Aboriginal fisheries in the courts (Sparrow, Van der Peet, etc.).
• Aboriginal Rights
  Indigenous Foundations at the University of British Columbia describes Aboriginal rights. It defines the term and provides information about the history of Aboriginal rights and the Crown, how the court system is addressing Aboriginal rights, Aboriginal rights as inherent, and Aboriginal perspectives on government-defined Aboriginal rights.
• Aboriginal Title
  Indigenous Foundations at the University of British Columbia presents information on Aboriginal Title. It defines the term and provides information about a history of the Crown & Aboriginal Title, Aboriginal Title in British Columbia, Aboriginal understandings of title, and what Aboriginal Title means for private property interests.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• An Unprecedented Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Rings Alarm Bells
• 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.
• Ancient Forest Alliance Homepage
  The non-profit organization Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) website. AFA works to protect Vancouver, British Columbia’s endangered old-growth forests and to ensure a sustainable, value-added, second-growth forest industry.
• Animation of the Fraser River Delta
  
  Museum of Anthropology at University of British Columbia video featuring Musqueam community members’ quotes alongside an animation of the Fraser River Delta’s development, major First Nations settlements, and colonial settlements from 9000 years ago to 2015.
• 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.
• 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.”
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• 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.
• Blackcomb Helicopters Limited Partnership (BHLP) Land Use & Tenure
  The Blackcomb Helicopters company explains the federal permission they have been granted to operate throughout the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. This Land Act tenure grants the company access to the land for commercial recreational purposes. Indigenous communities and impact on the environment were considered before tenure was granted.
• Burrard Inlet Action Plan
  The Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s action plan for improving the health of the Burrard Inlet ecosystem by 2025 is summarized on this webpage. The plan involves monitoring and supporting water quality and marine wildlife with measurable goals.
• Canada heatwave cooks up to one billion shellfish alive
  
  News video about the 2021 heat wave’s effect on British Columbia’s ecosystem. Up to one billion shellfish died, an example of climate change’s effects on agriculture and farming families.
• Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project Public Hearing Phase Overview of Oral Hearing Submission by Semiahmoo First Nation
  Semiahmoo First Nation presents an overview of their oral hearing submission for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project in British Columbia, Canada. It discusses Aboriginal rights and title, Traditional Territory, demand for more studies about project effects, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Chief Bill James & Troy Olsen - Salish Sea Speaker Series
  
  Chief Tsi'li'xw (Bill James) and Su'hun'up Hussmeen (Troy Olsen) of the Lummi nation present at the Northwest Indian College Salish Sea Speaker Series. They tell stories about the importance of the art of weaving with cedar and wool in the Coast Salish tradition and how the art is impacted by changing Salish Sea conditions.
• Chief: Salmon Woman
  
  Video of Lummi Nation hereditary chief Bill James telling the story of Salmon Woman.
• City of Bellingham Public Works: Waste Treatment Plant
  
  City of Bellingham presents a video covering the steps of cleaning wastewater at the Post Point Resource Recovery Plant starting from when it leaves a house to when it reaches Bellingham Bay.
• 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.
• Clam Digging through 3,500 Years of Indigenous History
  Hakai magazine presents an article on how radiocarbon dating research on Quadra Island has revealed that the Coast Salish clam garden technology is at least 3,500 years old. This discovery pushed back the known history of these structures by about 2,000 years.
• Clam Gardens in the Pacific Northwest
  Video featuring Marco Hatch, lead of the Coastal Communities and Ecology Lab at Western Washington University, discussing sea gardens on Quadra Island. The lab collaborates with Coast Salish tribes to research the mechanics of clam gardens and how to use sea garden technology to measure changing sea levels.
• Clams - Powerpoint Lecture
  
  Marine ecologist Marco Hatch (Samish) lectures about shellfish and soft substrate intertidal zones. He discusses and compares the characteristics of the Varnish Clam, Olympia Oyster, Pacific Oyster, Manila Littleneck Clam, Native Littleneck Clam, Cockle Clam, Butter Clam, Horse Clam, and Geoduck.
• 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.
• 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.
• Coal in the Puget Sound Region
  Essay detailing the history of how railroad expansion and Washington coal mines for fuel and export shaped the economy and society of the Puget Sound. The essay also contains historical photographs from coal mines.
• Coast Mountain Ecology