Raya Leary 



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Research

Against the Current: Indigenous Survivance in a Post-Salmon Era


For thousands of years, the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest United States have depended on the arrival of salmon to nourish bodies both animal and terrestrial.

This research focuses on a paradigm shift imposed by the growing ecological crisis: without the ability to maintain reciprocal relationships with other beings, the ontological underpinning of indigeneity itself comes under threat.
Professor Zoë Eddy