By honouring the past and present, we can write stories for our collective futures, so we don’t ignore solutions because we assert that one knowledge system is better than the other
Volunteers help the SeaChange society prepare eelgrass for transplant as part of a seagrass restoration effort in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island.is a Nlaka’pamux Indigenous ecologist, assistant professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia, and principal ofThey don’t listen.
Across the country, our fisheries dwindle. A legacy of mismanagement grounded in the illusion of early settlers to this country that there exists infinite resources for the taking. Historic pictures and stories of salmon piled high on the sides of the Fraser River, left to rot because settlers took more than they needed. They don’t listen.
The devaluation of Indigenous knowledges has a long history on Turtle Island. I became interested in this issue as an ecologist working on the management of invasive species for almost two decades. While I am a proud Nlaka’pamux woman of mixed ancestry, my training came mostly from the Western scientific education I received at both the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia.
Well, I didn’t listen either. I was fuelled by my past experiences, the knowledges shared with me by my Indigenous friends who grew up on their homelands, and the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer in my freshly read and now dog-eared copy ofDuring my PhD research, applying an Indigenous world view to ecology and invasion biology, I came across a story of the Bitterroot Valley that felt oddly familiar.
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