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WhatcomTalk Rena Priest, Washington’s New Poet Laureate, Calls Bellingham Home For the next two years, our Washington State Poet Laureate promises to reach out to residents, and bring poetry into the natural world. Photo courtesy Rena Priest Rena Priest, Washington’s New Poet Laureate, Calls Bellingham Home A member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation and an American Book Award winner, Priest is the first Native American poet to serve as our state's poet laureate Bellingham resident Rena Priest made a deal with herself: she would apply for two positions that help her foll...

Date Time Nisga’a scholar launches new Centre for Indigenous Fisheries at UBC A new Centre for Indigenous Fisheries (CIF) is being launched at University of British Columbia, with Indigenous fisheries scientist, conservation biologist and Nisga’a Nation member Dr. Andrea Reid joining as Principal Investigator. The CIF, which will be based at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, aims to support the management of aquatic ecosystems and fisheries in Canada and beyond by combining Indigenous knowledge systems and modern science. Professor Emerita and fisheries historian Dr. Dianne Newe...

The Songhees Nation, a First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada, completed the first marine survey of culturally important species around the Tl’ches archipelago using a small underwater drone. By establishing a baseline for these animals, the Songhees Nation has taken the first steps toward establishing stronger protections for the culturally and ecologically rich site. Their work also demonstrated that the drone, a relatively low-cost commercial product, offered a reasonable alternative to more expensive survey methods, such as scuba diving. The survey has also been hailed as embl...