Salish Sea Curriculum Repository

Items

• ‎Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not “a Nation of Immigrants"

  Episode from the podcast Book Club with Jeffery Sachs features a conversation with author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. They discuss myths, settler colonialism, white supremacy, and the history of erasure and exclusion in the United States.

• ‎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.

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.

• Scales of Change - A Field Guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction

  Podcast series published by Future Ecologies with support from the University of Victoria brings on guests for each episode to help describe the psychology of climate inaction. The show provides examples and ways to grow the movement of climate action.

• Terminal

  Podcast episode from Future Ecologies discusses the implications of urbanization in British Columbia’s Fraser River Estuary to the Orca pod, salmon, and other wildlife. The episode focuses on the creation of a new ferry terminal, the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (RBT2), on Tsawwassen First Nation's traditional territory.

• People - Lummi Legends: Cuomo Kulshan's Last Potlatch (audio)

  Audio recording of artist, teacher, and storyteller Pauline Hillaire telling the legend as told by her father, Kwul-Kwul-'tu, about chief Cuomo Kulshan (Mount Baker), his wife (Mount Rainier), and his daughters (Twin Sister Mountain).
  

• 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.

• On Fire: Camas, Cores, and Spores (Part 1)

  Part one of the “On Fire: Camas, Cores, and Spores” series on the podcast Future Ecologies. The episode discusses the history and evolution of fire, and the evolution of plants, animals, and human technologies concerning fire.

• 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.