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.
Map by the Burke Museum shows an aerial view of the landscape of the area that now is Seattle in the mid-19th century before colonial settlement. It contains Coast Salish place names, ecosystems, and tours between locations.
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.
Sightline Institute presents an article on how the history of oil refining in the Puget Sound is linked to colonialism. It discusses how refineries were built on Lummi, Swinomish, and Puyallup peoples’ land.
ArcGIS StoryMap of a community-based participatory research project in Victoria, British Columbia by the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, Island Health, and University of Victoria. It is dedicated to spreading awareness about site-supportive transitional housing and breaking the cycle of houselessness.
Interactive map of Musqueam Territory place names with historical photographs, audio from Musqueam’s oral history collection, and a children’s place names book. Vancouver, British Columbia is seated on Musqueam Territory.
Book section from Urbanizing frontiers: Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities. This section focuses on Indigenous peoples and settlers in Victoria, British Columbia from 1858 to 1871. Gold rushes and narratives of European progress transformed spaces and bodies.
Book section from Planning on the Edge: Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development. The book proposes planning and policies for the Indigenous population to reduce social inequality and housing insecurity in Vancouver, British Columbia.
English Language Notes research article about Indigenous and allied scholars, knowledge keepers, scientists, learners, change-makers, and leaders building a field and plans to address human-caused climate change.
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.
Map of land cover in the Salish Sea bioregion with the categories of urban, cropland, forest, other vegetation, bare ground, water, snow and ice land cover modeled using 30x30 meter resolution gridded satellite data from 2015.
Map of jurisdictions including U.S. counties, Canadian regional districts, and major cities (Bellingham, Everett, Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, and Victoria) in the Salish Sea Bioregion.
Map of the Salish Sea’s surrounding watersheds in Western North America, including the Columbia, Fraser, Great Basin, Makenzie, Mississippi, Nelson, Yukon. The Pacific Ocean and Arctic Ocean are also visible.
Map of subbasins (or sub-basins) and bathymetry of the Salish Sea with basins delineated based on water depth and circulation. Shallower areas associated with underwater sills separate many of the basins, creating distinct oceanography. Basins shown include: Admiralty Inlet, Central Puget Sound, East Strait of Juan de Fuca, Hood Canal, South Puget Sound, San Juan Archipelago, South Strait of Georgia, Strait of Georgia, West Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Whidbey.
This paper introduces official responsibility for the protection and management of the Salish Sea marine environment. Focusing on governments and their legally constituted bodies, the complex management structures on the American and Canadian sides of the Salish Sea are identified. Both countries operate in cooperative federalist systems, but there exist differences in management structures arising notably from constitutional differences, Tribal and First Nation relations, and jurisdictional authority. Both state and provincial governments have the authority to create and enforce environmental regulations but are constrained by federal legislation. Collaborative and stakeholder-engaged environmental planning and stewardship have been recognized on both sides of the border. Past and present efforts support bottom-up organizational structures that give community members and scientists a greater voice in decision-making, in partnership with government. More evidence exists of community- and state-level autonomy in Washington compared to British Columbia. Political and administrative boundaries have been recognized by some as counter to needs of environmental management, with an alternative and preferred approach being the use of ecological planning units such as watersheds or estuaries. The international boundary dividing the Salish Sea remains an administrative and organizational impediment despite evidence of trans-boundary collaborative efforts.
Diagram of deep water flows and intermediate and surface water flows in the Salish Sea. It provides direction and relative magnitude (line width) of net water flow and exchanges for marine waters and freshwater rivers.
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.
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.
Book section from Native Studies Keywords examining the perspectives and history of the term and concept of “land” in Native American studies projects. Land relates to other terms like sovereignty, belonging, rights, and responsibility.
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.
Volume analyzing the history of the words sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous knowledge in Native American studies projects. Sections contain essays with perspectives on definitions, meanings, and significance of the concepts within historical, social, and political contexts.
Vimeo profile for the Northwest Indian College Cooperative Extension in Bellingham, Washington, who provides community education on topics including Financial Literacy for Native American families, Traditional Plants and Foods, Cultural Arts, professional development, and health and wellness activities.
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.
Journal article about the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s development of an informal environmental health and sustainability curriculum for teaching science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics with a basis in Swinomish beliefs and practices. The curriculum focuses on free-choice learning and increasing awareness.
Video introducing the Indigenous futurism virtual reality experience by Filmmaker Lisa Jackson and 3D Artist Mathew Borrett. Biidaaban: First Light reflects on systems of governance as it imagines a future Toronto through the languages Wendat, Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Anishinaabe (Ojibway).
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.
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.
Peter Morin, a Tahltan Nation artist and curator, discusses the anthropological museum space, experience working with the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, the polemics of art institutions, the gallery space, racism and microaggression, Indigenous power in the museum space, and Tahltan knowledge.
Essay by Bethany Hughes (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) analyzing protest performances about water using the Indigenous feminist concept of radical relationality to elaborate on relations and obligations of humans and water.
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.
HuffPost article by Jamie Broadnax describes the Afrofuturism cultural movement and its differences from other science and speculative fiction. Broadnax refers to Afrofuturist media like the Black Panther comics and film and Octavia E. Butler’s novels.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seattle Times article on the result of the 9th Circuit ruling to leave in place a lower court order requiring state governments to pay for the removal of culverts blocking fish migration. The decision is a victory for recognizing Treaty-protected fishing rights and salmon recovery in Washington State.
The complete text of the Point Elliott Treaty, signed by Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, and by Duwamish Chief Seattle, Snoqualmie Chief Patkanim, Lummi Chief Chow-its-hoot, and other chiefs, subchiefs, and delegates of tribes, bands, and villages.
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.
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.
Research article in Estuaries and Coasts by Western Washington University Professor David H. Shull aimed at understanding the processes leading to Bottom water acidification in Bellingham Bay relating to Pacific Ocean upwelling and Nooksack River circulation.
Video by the Northwest Indian College where Squamish Fisherman Rob Purser explains salmon preparation, salmon preparation, prayer, and salmon’s importance to the forests and streams.
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.
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.