Syilx scholar Jeannette Armstrong, Ph.D, is Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy at UBC Okanagan. An award-winning writer and activist, novelist and poet, her research is in Indigenous philosophies and Okanagan Syilx thought and environmental ethics coded into Syilx oral literatures. She collaborates with Salish speaking groups to re-establish Indigenous languages, historical relationships, and food resource ceremonies through gatherings, trading and protections of water and land practices. She is a recipient of the Eco Trust USA Buffett Award in Indigenous Leadership and serves on Canada’s Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge Subcommittee of Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
Bringing the Salmon Home
