Born and raised in Washington State, Dr. Joshua L Reid (registered member of the Snohomish Indian Nation) is an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the John Calhoun Smith Memorial Endowed Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. This Spring, he's away from campus, or at least the Seattle campus. He's teaching AIS 311 The Indigenous History and Environment of the Salish Sea, at UW's Friday Harbor Labs on San Juan Island. It makes perfect sense then, that he was recently interviewed as part of a Seattle Times article about the traditional Lummi fishing practice of reef netting.
It's a great article, which follows several businesses and families currently reef netting in the Salish Sea and the history of how the practice was almost driven completely out of the area and is now returning. Read the full story here.