Salish Sea Curriculum Repository

6 item sets

330 items

• 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
• 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.
• Cultural keystone places: Conservation and restoration in cultural landscapes
• 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.
• Decolonization is not a metaphor
• Decolonizing museums: Representing Native America in national and tribal museums
• Decolonizing the map? Toponymic politics and the rescaling of the Salish Sea
  An academic article by Brian Tucker and Reuben Rose-Redwood analyzing the naming of the Salish Sea and its implications for Indigenous recognition and state authority. It explores how toponymy can both acknowledge Indigenous histories and perpetuate colonial power structures.
• Densho Digital Repository
  Hear the story of the Japanese American incarceration experience from those who lived it, and find thousands of historic photographs, documents, newspapers, letters and other primary source materials from immigration to the WWII incarceration and its aftermath.
• 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.
• Down2Earth 1.3 - Cheryl Bryce (Lekwammen)
• 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.”
• Framing the pipeline problem: Civic claimsmakers and social media
• From safe spaces to brave spaces: A new way to frame dialogue around diversity and social justice
• 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.