'No One Asked for an Ethnography.' Reflections on Community-based Anthropology in Coast Salish Country
- Title
- 'No One Asked for an Ethnography.' Reflections on Community-based Anthropology in Coast Salish Country
- Journal of Northwest Anthropology
- Description
- 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.
- Creator
- Thomas W. Murphy
- Subject
- Coast Salish
- Community-based
- Duwamish
- Environmental Anthropology
- Ethnography
- Samish
- Snohomish
- Snoqualmie
- Stillaguamish
- Tribal Canoe Journey
- Tulalip
- Abstract
- A question posed by a student after a guest lecture about a community-based environmental anthropology field school provoked reflection on community needs in Coast Salish Country. The student expressed an interest in an ethnographic account of field work that had been responsive to community requests. The challenge is that in over two decades of consultations and collaborations no one from Coast Salish communities had asked for an ethnography. Representatives from United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, Tulalip, Stillaguamish, Snoqualmie, Samish, Duwamish, and Snohomish Tribes expressed different needs. They asked community college partners to remember where they came from, support Native American students, develop relations with other than human people, help create culturally relevant jobs, “feed the sea,” assist in bringing salmon back, witness, sing, dance, and ultimately to “pass the mic.”
- pages
- 145-164
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- en
- Is Part Of
- State of the Salish Sea
- Item sets
- Salish Resources