First Nations

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Charlotte Coté
Professor and Chair
Joshua L. Reid
Associate Professor

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Related Research

Charlotte Coté, “Indigenous Food Sovereignty. Embodying Nuu-chah-nulth Principles of ʔuʔaałuk (to take care of), ʔiisaak (to be respectful), and hišukʔiš c̓awaak (everything is interconnected) in Policy and Practice,” Handbook of Indigenous Public Policy. Indigenous Rights and the Transformation of Policy, Sheryl Lightfoot and Sarah Maddison (Eds.) (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Spring 2024): 253-271.
Lindsey R. Popken, P. Joshua Griffin, Charlotte Coté, Eric Angel. "Indigenous food sovereignty through resurgent self-governance: centering Nuu-chah-nulth principles in sea otter management in Canada." Published in Ecology and Society, Volume 28, Issue 2.
Charlotte Coté, “Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Realizing its Potential for Indigenous Decolonization, Self-Determination, and Community Health,” Introduction to Determinants of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Health, Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Roberta Stout, Roseann Larstone, & Julie Sutherland (Eds.) (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, Summer 2022): 225-236.
Charlotte Coté. A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast. University of Washington Press. January 2022.
Charlotte Coté, “‘Indigenizing’ Food Sovereignty. Revitalizing Indigenous Food Practices and Ecological Knowledges in Canada and the United States,” Humanities, Vol. 5. No. 3 (Spring 2016): 14 pages. Open Access.
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Robin K. Wright, co-editors. In the Spirit of the Ancestors: Contemporary Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum. Seattle: Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art and University of Washington Press, 2013.
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse. "A Collaborative Reframing of Franz Boas's Documentation of the Kwakiutl First Nation in 1930," NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication. February 2018 – July 2018.
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Aldona Jonaitis, co-editors. Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020.
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse. "Inspiring Traditions, Living Aesthetics," National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works Grant. June 2019 – December 2020.