Sharing Indigenous Knowledge Across Boundaries: Fishing Sovereignty in Alaska and British Columbia

Mon, Nov 08, 2021

Following up on their spring film screening, Yáa at Wooné, the Canadian Studies Center and partners across campus are bringing together representatives from the Tlingit and Heiltsuk Nations, as well as experts in tribal law and natural resource management from both British Columbia and Alaska, to discuss the state of Pacific herring fisheries and what Indigenous communities can learn from each other and share across the border.

Tuesday, November 16

11:00 am – 12:30 pm PST

Online via Zoom

The conversation will focus on how the Heiltsuk Nation's success in regaining control of their fishery might be used as a model, and how different approaches to tribal rights and law in each country affect these efforts.

Panelists:

Louise Brady, Kiks.ádi Tlingit, Founder, Herring Protectors
Louisa Housty-Jones, Heiltsuk, Councillor, Heiltsuk Nation
Matthew Newman, Senior Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund, Alaska
Saul ‘Hazil’hba Brown, Nuu-chah-nulth/Heiltsuk, 3rd year law, University of Victoria, former negotiator for Heiltsuk reconciliation process
Vina Brown, Nuu-chah-nulth/Heiltsuk, PhD candidate, University of Alaska, Adjunct Faculty, Northwest Indian College

Moderated by: Charlotte Coté, Associate Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Washington.

Sharing Indigenous Knowledge Across Boundaries: Fishing Sovereignty in Alaska and British Columbia

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