![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/04\/IMG_7049-375x281.jpeg\")
<\/p>\nChad Eneas (apprentice knowledge keeper) and an elder from the Okanagan Nation Alliance joke with Stan De Mello after the Calling the Salmon Home ceremony. Photo credit: Morna McEachern.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Over the course of 12 days, a dozen participants traveled together along the river learning about these complex issues. Among myriad experiences, participants met with Indigenous scholars and activists, local government representatives in BC, went to museums, toured dams (including the first dam on the Columbia, the Mica Dam, and the last one, the Bonneville Dam), met virtually with Canada\u2019s Chief Negotiator, Sylvain Fabfi, at En\u2019owkin Centre where he engaged with elders and leaders of the Okanagan Nation Alliance, met with old friends and Indigenous scholars from the Pacific and Norway (whose communities have very similar relationships both to water, fish and nation states) at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, attended a Calling the Salmon Home Ceremony in Revelstoke, B.C., visited an Indigenous run fish hatchery, visited the Port of Kalama, and had many deep and focused conversations.<\/p>\n
The participants, who were students, academics, K-12 teachers\u2014aged 18-72\u2014continue to process their experiences, making short films, developing curriculum, and writing poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last summer, Morna McEachern, Western Association of Canadian Studies, and Stan De Mello, School of Social Work, led a field course deep diving into the Columbia River Treaty modernization effort and meeting with communities and individuals impacted. This is the third field course to focus on the Columbia River Treaty, previously running in 2015 and<\/p>\n