indigenous peoples

The third episode of Archival Ecologies centers around Nlaka’pamux knowledge keeper John Haugen, who describes the meaning and the making of baskets in his community and the recovery of them after the wildfire.

The fourth episode of continues the Nlaka’pamux’ story of basket making through a discussion of the craft with basket makers Judy Hanna and Peter Sam, and their hopes for the continuation of basketry traditions in their community.

In this first episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins discusses the fallout of a devastating wildfire in a village in Lytton, British Columbia, in 2021 and interviews member of the community on the big questions that inspire and inflect the event.

While reading Baron von Humboldt’s 1807 Essay on the Geography of Plants, Paula Unger writes about modern science creating boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and how Indigenous understandings transcend them.

In this Springs article, environmental historian Shen Hou considers the shore lives of both Qingdao and Los Angeles.

A book by Christina Gerhardt that weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world.

In this Springs article, historian Tom Griffiths considers Australia’s devastating 2019 and 2020 bushfires and the cultural and worldwide impact they had.