Contributors
Bill Angelbeck is an archaeologist and anthropologist who is interested in the histories and cultures of Salishan peoples of the Northwest Coast and Interior of North America. Since 2000, he has worked throughout the region on various archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical projects. He has published his research in World Archaeology, Current Anthropology, and Ethnohistory, among other outlets. He acquired his doctorate at the University of British Columbia and is currently a faculty member of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONJames Casey earned a master's degree in International Environmental Policy at the University of Northern British Columbia, after which he worked with WWF-Canada on topics ranging from eelgrass and marine planning to hydropower and the Water Sustainability Act. This experience established a base of knowledge he is now applying to the context of the Fraser Estuary Key Biodiversity Area. For Birds Canada, James is building support for the development of a Fraser River Estuary Management Plan for this Key Biodiversity Area.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONKris Cu grew up in the bustling city of Manila, in the Philippines and often watched the Pied Fantails forage around his neighbour's garden. Upon moving to Canada, Kris completed a Biological Sciences degree from Simon Fraser University and has embarked on numerous science communication roles. As the Conservation Engagement and Outreach Worker for Birds Canada, he supports the team through photography, videography, social media, and outreach. Kris considers it a privilege to be able to share what he loves and is ecstatic about connecting minority communities with birds and the natural world.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONTristan Douglas grew up on the Cowichan Bay estuary. As an undergrad he studied the bottom-up influence of microbes on ecosystem functions, including their role in global climate-change mitigation. His MSc work at the University of Victoria, looked at carbon sequestration in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia, with a particular focus on intertidal biofilms. A PhD candidate at IRSS, Tristan is mapping and monitoring biofilms in Fraser River Delta, a critical stopover site for migratory birds. When not in the field or lab, Tristan has a secret life as a musician; he releases and tours music on Planet Mu records, UK.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONHazel Fairbairn is a fiddle, viola, and violin player/sound artist, who works with electronic regenerations and manipulations of acoustic sources and instruments. She created a strings-based score for Kim Trainor's film realisation of her long poem Ledi, which they performed live in Fall 2021 at the New Media Gallery, and is creating experimental scores and soundscapes for Kim's poetry-film series 'Seeds'. With roots in Irish Folk music, and a PhD in ethnomusicology, Hazel is endlessly curious about the way sound connects cultures, migrations, and the natural world.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONChief Jim Hornbrook, elected Chief of the Hwlitsum First Nation since 2017, has spent a good part of his life fishing and plying the waters of the Fraser Estuary and the Salish Sea. Born and raised in the area he has gained a lifetime of experience through oral histories passed down for generations. Following in the steps of those before him, he is honoured and humbled to continue to lead the Hwlitsum People in upholding their custodial duties to the Creator in accordance with their Indigenous laws and culture.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONAmy-Claire Huestis, co-curator of walk quietly, lives on Canoe Pass at Westham Island. She makes artworks through ritual and attention to the landscape over time. She has a daily walking practice at Brunswick Point, and in this thinking-through-walking she considers how we might live better with more-than-human kin. Her work is experimental and community-oriented; some of her collaborators, partnerships, and programs have included North Pacific Cannery Museum, Aadmsteti: Stinging Nettle Net, Time Lapse Dance, Henry Andersen Elementary School, Birds Canada, UCLA Art/Science Center, and many beloved artists and individuals. Amy-Claire teaches fine arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONAmie MacDonald is a biologist with Birds Canada. She studies shorebird ecology and is working to expand the Motus Wildlife Tracking System in Western Canada. Motus is revolutionizing our understanding of small animal migration, telling new stories in extraordinary detail about how and when individual animals are moving across the landscape. Amie has studied Dunlin in the Fraser Estuary, Red Knots on the James Bay coast, and Semipalmated Sandpipers in the Bay of Fundy. Amie loves being in the field and she's interested in migration, population ecology, and conservation.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONBruce Granville Miller is a Professor of Anthropology at UBC and worked with Chief Rocky Wilson and others to record Hwlitsum history. Bruce is the editor of Be of Good Mind: Essays on the Coast Salish and author of Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONKim Trainor, co-curator of walk quietly, writes poetry and makes poetry films steeped in local ecologies. She is the granddaughter of an Irish banjo player and a Polish faller who worked in logging camps around Port Alberni in the 1930s, as well as a descendent of the Husband family of Ladner. A thin fire runs through me will appear with icehouse poetry/Goose Lane Editions in 2023. She teaches at Douglas College at the kwikwəƛ̓əm campus.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONJared Qwustenuxun Williams is a passionate traditional food sovereignty chef. For the last 13 years, he worked for and has learned from the Cowichan Elders. He is a Hul'q'umi'num language teacher, knowledge holder, and storyteller. He is also a father and owner of Medieval Chaos the largest live action role playing game in Western Canada. He shares his traditional teachings with care and respect for land, family, and people.
VIEW CONTRIBUTIONLindsey Jay Wilson was born April 6, 1956, at Canoe Pass, BC. He is a commercial salmon fisherman and knowledge keeper. "I travelled the coast my whole life. I'm very honoured and grateful to have had wisdom passed down from Elders coastwide. Being my grandfather's oldest grandson, he told me stories of sasquatches, sea monsters, and Jim Thorpe being the greatest athlete ever. He also told me about his introduction to the residential school on Kuper Island. I am passionate about passing on the wisdom and stories I have gained to our people."
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