Digital Ecocultural Mapping supports visualization and storytelling about our natural, cultural, and historical sites in the Salish Sea, bringing our ancestral village sites, camps, reef net locations and 13 moons food sovereignty or Indigenous stewardship systems back to life.
Our current Digital Ecocultural Mapping project:
WE are partnering with the Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea (IMERSS) and Straits Salish community members to develop a Map Prototype for Pe’pi’ow’ elh, now known as English Camp, located on the west side of San Juan Island.
WE are partnering with the Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea (IMERSS) and Straits Salish community members to develop a Map Prototype for Pe’pi’ow’ elh, now known as English Camp, located on the west side of San Juan Island.
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ABSTRACT
“The First Ones” (NPS.gov 2000) in our intersectional projects, have familial inherent and acquired birth rights tied to this territory. The ancestral village site of Pe’pi’ow’ elh has an archeological history showing a 600-800 ft longhouse. Given the rich ecocultural heritage of this region, the naturalist Caleb Kennerly, of the Northwest Boundary Survey, observed that early settlers encountered “thriving villages'' along the shorelines of American and English Camps, as well as elsewhere in the San Juan archipelago. He considered San Juan Island as "perhaps the best fishing grounds on Puget Sound," where "numerous bands of Indians… plied reef nets''.
“The First Ones” (NPS.gov 2000) in our intersectional projects, have familial inherent and acquired birth rights tied to this territory. The ancestral village site of Pe’pi’ow’ elh has an archeological history showing a 600-800 ft longhouse. Given the rich ecocultural heritage of this region, the naturalist Caleb Kennerly, of the Northwest Boundary Survey, observed that early settlers encountered “thriving villages'' along the shorelines of American and English Camps, as well as elsewhere in the San Juan archipelago. He considered San Juan Island as "perhaps the best fishing grounds on Puget Sound," where "numerous bands of Indians… plied reef nets''.
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Whiteswan Environmental relies on donations from the community to make this vision a reality.
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