Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging
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Researchers are weaving Native practices with western methods to revive ecosystems and reclaim food sovereignty“I’m a glorified clam counter.”So said Marco Hatch, a marine ecologist at Western Washington University and an enrolled member of the Samish Indian Nation. Hatch has been conducting surveys of mollusks growing in and around clam gardens in the Pacific north-west, as he collaborates with seven Indigenous communities to build or rebuild these rock-walled, terraced beaches once created and
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