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• Coast Salish Food Sovereignty
  
  Valerie Segrest (Muckleshoot), a native nutrition educator and coordinator of Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project, presents about Coast Salish traditional food, food systems, and movements towards food sovereignty for cultures and health across Indian Country at the Western Washington University College of the Environment (previously Huxley) Speaker Series.
• Coast Salish Place Names of the San Juan Islands
  Map that places the Coast Salish at the forefront, prioritizing their relationship and history with their territories. Language and culture are at one with the landscape.
• 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.
• Conservation in heavily urbanized biodiverse regions requires urgent management action and attention to governance
  Journal article from Conservation Science and Practice uses a Priority Threat Management approach to calculate the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation action and co-governance in urbanized areas. Authors focus on species in the Fraser River estuary and argue for strategic planning, governance, and large-scale investment.
• Creating Order: The Liberals, the Landowners, and the Draining of Sumas Lake, British Columbia
  Essay about the draining of Sumas Lake, British Columbia, Canada by the provincial government in the 1920s and the landowner and government ideologies of progress and improvement surrounding the decision. The author argues as to the source behind the financial and environmental problems of the project.
• 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.
• Dams: Rushing Downriver (Part 2)
  A podcast episode about the removal of two dams from the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula. Through research and interviews, the hosts explain what it took to overcome the hurdles to this restoration project, the importance of its success for the ecosystem, and what lessons can be applied to other ecosystem renewal projects.
• Developing Stamina for Decolonizing Higher Education: A Workbook for Non-Indigenous People
  
  A practical guide for non-Indigenous people aiming to decolonize higher education, written in collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. It emphasizes the importance of emotional resilience, self-reflection, accountability, and a long-term commitment to decolonization work.
• 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.
• EagleView Heights - Presentation Centre
  
  Tour of the EagleView Heights Presentation Centre in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada. It shows designs for the EagleView Heights housing.
• Earthquake - Emergency Management
  Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management provides basic information about earthquakes. Lists three types of potential earthquakes, projected effects, and secondary impacts such as landslides, tsunamis, fires, infrastructure failures, and hazardous materials releases.
• Earthquakes Canada
  Webpage tracking recent earthquakes in Southwestern British Columbia. Includes links to recent earthquake reports and an interactive map displaying all earthquakes in the last thirty days.
• Eight Peninsula Tribes, Olympic National Park Sign Pact
  Eight Tribes and Olympic National Park signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2008 to improve open dialogue and collaboration on the Washington State peninsula, as documented in this article. The tribal governments and National Park Service had collaborated on projects before, but this agreement hopes to formalize and strengthen shared stewardship of the land and its resources.
• Elements of Indigenous style: a guide for writing by and about Indigenous Peoples
• Episode 29: Part 3: The Sea Around Us
  
  Western Washington University television show episode follows Bert Webber, who led the naming of the Salish Sea composed of the Puget Sound, Strait of Georgia, and Strait of Juan de Fuca. Webber explains that the name provides a greater understanding of the ecological and cultural roots of the region.
• 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.
• Explore Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre in 3D
  A 3D guide of the entire Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, which includes a museum, art gallery and gift shop, and café. Many museum displays are clearly depicted with legible informational plaques. The cultural center was created in partnership between the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations.
• 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.
• Federal review panel report for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 project
  The Review Panel for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project (in Delta, British Columbia, Canada) presents the results of the federal review panel assessment of the potential environmental effects of the Project. It provides key findings on residual and cumulative effects for habitat and species, conclusions, and recommendations.
• 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.
• Fires - Emergency Management
  Seattle Office of Emergency Management webpage discussing fire emergency management. The page goes over the dangers of fires, safety systems, and how climate change has put wildfires on Seattle’s list of concerns.
• Fishing down the coast: Historical expansion and collapse of oyster fisheries along continental margins
  Environmental science journal article evaluates the patterns of exploitation of oysters and oyster reef degradation due to destructive fishing practices. The article focuses on estuaries in western North America (Ostreola conchaphila), eastern North America (Crassostrea virginica), and eastern Australia (Saccostrea glomerata).
• Five Generations - Salish Sea Speaker Series
  
  Lummi Elder and Fisherman Tim Ballew Sr. presents at the Northwest Indian College Salish Sea Speaker Series. He speaks about the meaning of being on the water and the experience of change across generations in connection with the water.
• Five Puget Sound cities likely to feel strong shaking in a megaquake
  Article explaining why seismologists predict that east Puget Sound cities (Shoreline, Kirkland, Seattle, Lakewood, Redmond) will feel strongest shaking in the major earthquake that will occur on the Cascadia subduction zone. Notes that factors like construction quality and soil conditions will affect levels of damage.
• Five salmon farms decommissioned (with more to come) as First Nations reach agreement with Cermaq Canada and Mowi Canada West over phase out plan
  SalmonBusiness article about the Indigenous Monitoring and Inspection Plan (IMIP) agreement, which establishes a formal process for First Nations oversight of fish farms operating in the Territories of the ‘Namgis, Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis, and Mamalilikulla First Nations. These sites are in Broughton Archipelago in British Columbia, Canada.
• Flood Hazard Areas
  Interactive flood hazard map created by the Washington Department of Ecology.
• Flood Modeling and Mapping in BC's Lower Mainland: A Project Primer
  Models of potential flooding and related hazards surrounding the Fraser River. These maps aim to improve risk assessment and emergency preparedness as part of developing a region-wide flood strategy for British Columbia’s lower mainland.
• Floods - Emergency Management
  Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management provides basic information about floods. Describes main types of flood hazards, projected effects of climate change, and local flood control infrastructure.
• FNESC Math First Peoples
  Grounded in the view that increased student success can be achieved through adjustments in pedagogy and approach that make mathematics feel more inclusive and engaging.
• FNLC Supports Broughton Area LoU re. Fish Farms
  News release by Union of BC Indian Chiefs about First Nation Leadership Council (FNLC) comments on the Broughton Area Letter of Understanding (LoU), signed between the Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis, Namgis and Mamalilikulla First Nations and British Columbia. It discusses LoU’s role in reaching government-to-government agreement about the aquaculture industry in the area.
• 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.
• Forgotten Giants: The Past, Present, And Future Of Basking Sharks In The Salish Sea And Beyond
  
  If you're surprised to hear that the 2nd largest fish on the planet used to be abundant in the shared waters of British Columbia and Washington, you're not alone! Now almost forgotten, the Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) - which reaches sizes of up to 12 m (40 ft) - used to be abundant from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico. Although these giant filter-feeders are harmless to humans, they were hunted and persecuted throughout much of the 20th century, first for their oil-rich livers and then because they were impeding profitable salmon fisheries by getting tangled in gillnets. In British Columbia in 1949, they were put on the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans list of 'destructive pests', and from 1955 to 1969 a Federal eradication program was directed at them. Today, only a handful of sightings are reported from throughout British Columbia and Washington each year. Can this enigmatic wonder of our ocean world that has survived as a species for at least 30 million years recover here in the Northeast Pacific? How has our treatment of them shifted and what might we do to better understand them and their habitat, and 'turn the tide' for them, and for us?
• Four roles relating to change
  Training for Change handout that identifies effective and ineffective actions associated with four change-making roles: “helper,” “advocate,” “rebel,” and “organizer.”
• Garden of the Salish Sea Curriculum
  GSSC is a K-12 environmental science program that uses shellfish as a vehicle to teach marine science with hands-on learning through field experience.
• Greater Victoria School District Indigenous Education Department
  The purpose of the IED is to prioritize improved educational outcomes for Indigenous learners by promoting practices informed by Indigenous perspectives and ways of knowing.
• 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.
• Guerin Case
  Indigenous Foundations at the University of British Columbia presents information on the Supreme Court of Canada R v. Guerin [1984] decision. It discusses the Canadian government’s fiduciary duty (a trust-like relationship) to First Nations, Aboriginal rights, and Aboriginal title.
• Gulf Islands Ecosystem Communtiy Atlas
  An atlas about the Gulf Islands in B.C. containing maps, charts, and information about their physical environment, ecosystems, and cultural issues, published by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. It seeks to promote the ecological health of the four national parks on the Gulf Islands by serving as a resource for local policy development and land use.
• 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.
• He taught for 10 years without pay: John Craven Jones, Salt Spring Island’s First Teacher
  In the mid-to-late-1800s, integrated schools on Salt Spring Island, B.C. held student bodies of Indigenous, Black, and White children. This article tells how John Craven Jones founded and taught at these schools, with no funding for the first ten years.
• Heat Wave Spread Fire That ‘Erased’ Canadian Town
  New York Times article exploring the heat wave in Lytton, British Columbia, 2021. Record-breaking temperatures of 121 degrees ignited a fire that destroyed 90 percent of the town.
• 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.
• History of Commercial Logging
  Chapter of British Columbia in a Global Context, discussing the history of commercial logging in B.C. The chapter talks about how logging contributed to the building of roads, railroads, and other infrastructure and how that shaped B.C's physical and economic landscape.
• 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.
• Honouring earth
  An article about a comprehensive study (the First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study or FNFNES) by the Assembly of First Nations, University of Ottawa, and Université de Montréal on levels of food insecurity in First Nations communities. The research explains how environmental degradation diminishes access to traditional foods, which impacts the health of First Nations individuals, and how there is an urgent need for policy to address these issues.
• 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.
• How Mount Rainier will tell us when it’s going to blow
  Podcast episode about recording seismic signals coming from Mount Rainier, and how this data might help geologists forecast its eruption.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.