Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging

Lela Nargi, The Guardian

Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging
Leon Rohrwild, Unsplash

“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 tended by their ancestors.

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