This work has begun to come together out of several years of work on separate but linked stories about indigenous food sources and the struggle to protect the landscapes to which they are tied from the creep of colonial development and land pressure. From the northern California coast and the tense conflict for access to abalone and seaweed, to the far northern coast of British Columbia and the fight to save salmon populations there from natural gas pipeline development, to the dense timber-rich history of resource conflicts on the islands of Haida Gwaii—many first peoples are fighting in grass roots campaigns to maintain their access to, and the existence of, their food sources and knowledge. [Segments of this work were made possible with support from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.]

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