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.
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.
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.
The Indian government’s support for hybrid rice led to widescale deforestation in central India, disrupting Indigenous foodways based around the production and consumption of millets.
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.
