indigenous peoples

Drawing upon archival records in Namibia, South Africa, Portugal, the United States, and the United Kingdom, this article argues that concerns over the spread of plague across land borders led to the development of a nascent invasive species framework which indicted border-crossing “migrant” South African gerbils for the international spread of the disease.

Kata Beilin’s short story narrates of a scholar’s Amazonian journey, which awakens her from ambition’s illusion to the deeper truth of the interbeing in the forest.

A story about the environmental conflict between GM soy growers and Maya beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.

In this book, author and cultural historian L. Sasha Gora blends food studies with environmental history to explore how Indigenous restaurants reshape relationships between cuisine, land, and cultural identity in Canada.

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.