Science Literacy Week September 16-22, 2019

SN G37 C66 2012
Dr. Dolly Garza shows readers how to look for, identify, harvest, preserve, and prepare several specieis of seaweeds and one plant for tasty snacks or for the dinner table.

NB C47 D69 2017
Downstream: Reimagining Water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace and good relationships with one another and the planet. This book explores the key roles that culture, arts, and the humanities play in supporting healthy water-based ecology and provides local, global, and Indigenous perspectives on water that help to guide our societies in a time of global warming.

NN N67 G68 2017
With almost the entire world's water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding how to cooperate with one's neighbor is of global relevance. With this aim, this book explores the nuances of transboundary water governance through the exploration of the "friendly" Canada-US border.

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After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River, tribal members and theatre artist Theresa May developed a play to give voice to the central spiritual and cultural role of salmon in tribal life. Salmon Is Everything presents the script of that play, along with essays by artists and collaborators that illuminate the process of creating and performing theatre on Native and environmental issues.

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For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity.

SNR F73 T34 v. 2
More than 88 ways to prepare salmon and other favorite recipes includes authentic, traditional salmon dishes as well as modern, adapted ones.

NB W35 T44 2018
In There's Something In The Water, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. Using settler colonialism as the overarching theory, Waldron unpacks how environmental racism operates as a mechanism of erasure enabled by the intersecting dynamics of white supremacy, power, state-sanctioned racial violence, neoliberalism and racial capitalism in white settler societies.

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In recent years, Arctic sea ice has been thinning, retreating, and changing its patterns of freeze up and break up. For many indigenous communities in the Arctic, sea ice use and human-sea ice relationships that are deeply rooted in time, as well as identity, are being challenged.

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A coloring and learning book

YUC R38 v.3 2012
The Sea Wolf offers to help Gwai catch fish, but in exchange Gwai must build a totem for him. Gwai agrees and the Sea Wolf helps him bring back a huge net filled with fish, but Gwai takes credit for the catch himself and forgets to build the totem. Only after the Sea Wolf takes back the fish does Gwai honour his part of the bargain. The totem is so fine that the Sea Wolf forgives Gwai for his deceit.

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"Stories of survival and revenge presents three action-packed Inuit folktales: the stories of Nuliajuk, the mother of the sea mammals; Kaugjagjuk, the mistreated orphan who seeks revenge; and the Nanurluk, an enormous polar bear many times the size of a regular bear.

YUA Q28 W35 2014
In the time before animals were as they are today, Walrus, who had spiraled curly tusks and not the long, straight tusks we recognize today, spent his time diving for clams. One day, Walrus was about to surface with a mouthful of tasty clams, when Raven cast a spell on the ocean, freezing Walrus in place under the water. Walrus curly, twisting tusks became frozen in the enchanted ice, but Raven soon discovered that his magic was no match for Walrus great physical strength as he managed to escape but his tusks would never be the same. This fun dynamic animal tale pits two of the Arctic's most popular animal characters against each other in an amusing battle of wits and brawn