Todd Mitchell

Thanks to Chapter 7 lead @ecohugger.bsky.social for including our narrative!

STACC - STACC, Volume 2 The second volume of the STACC report followed a similar process as the first volume. A steering committee was convened and lead authors were identified and sent an invitation. In addition, the team...

Check out Volume 2 Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report. With @kjrm.bsky.social, we contributed a short narrative on Kukutali Preserve for Ch 7 Indigenous Lead Conservation as an example of leading the work at the first co-owned/managed Tribal State park in the nation.
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Two people holding up 1st salmon ceremony books standing behind a table with stacks of the books. to one side is a display board with photos and captions of past 1st salmon - blessing of fleet ceremonies, to the other side is a big poster of the 1st salmon ceremony books standing behind cover.

swinomish gym full of people seated at tables waiting for the table blessing for lunch.

four Tribal youth standing and holding salmon and berries offerings near Swinomish Channel. they are preparing to go the four compass directions to return the offering to water bodies in each of the directions.

We gave away 1st Salmon Ceremony children’s books written by my late father, Raymond Mitchell, at the Swinomish 1st Salmon Ceremony-Blessing of the Fleet on Thursday and joining our table was a Swinomish Archives display of past ceremonies!
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Don't, I just gotta remember what's important to follow up later or what to type in search bar to find it

Several camas flower clusters blooming with big pretty purple flowers!

Camas in my garden going big blooming flowers now!
The bulbs are a traditional food for indigenous people in the Coast Salish region.
I’ve been growing it for years to collect seeds to propagate for restoration plantings.
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Poster advertising DIA Children’s Day & Book Day, Saturday 26th of April, 1-3 PM at Mount Vernon Library Commons. Free event. Free books, folkloric dance, music, face painting, games, snacks, crafts. Featuring storytime w/ Anneka & Todd Mitchell

Anneka (my Daughter) and I will be reading our Swinomish children’s books (The Enormous Camas & Time of Salmonberries) at the Mount Vernon Library Commons tomorrow, this Saturday, April 26th, 1 PM! Come join us!

cool, i grew up there!which school
in Edmonds?

A prairie meadow on Kukutali Preserve with purple camas blooming near a saltwater bay with islands in the background.

Happy Earth Day!

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A beaded hat pin of a Robin in side profile, with lots of orange red beads making up the breast of this chubby robin, and grey and black beads for its back.

pədx̌ʷi”w̓áac,
pud-hway-WAHTS,
Moon of Whistling Robins signals the music of springtime as the robins return to build nests to lay their eggs.

This Swinomish 13 Moon is time when spring plant shoots and fern roots are gathered, halibut are fished, and canoes and baskets made.
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3 people holding up hardback copies of the Enormous Camas book arm in arm with me.

Great to catch up with friends who helped us learn about camas to start our Swinomish Camas Project!
Each presented our own projects at Cascadia Prairie Oak Partnership conf.
I gifted them my daughter’s book “The Enormous Camas” whose idea came on first trip with them in 2019.
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big pink tulips in a tulip bed, many open flowers in foreground and many budding flowers in background

Tulips in my planting bed getting ready to show all their colors!
Many Skagit Valley fields are either well into bloom or nearly there.

A pacific tree tree made of beads. you looking at the frog head on. It is beaded with shades of light green body and shades of cream and white for underbelly with golden eyes.

waqwaqus, is the Moon When Frog Talks. It is when the pacific tree frogs come out and chorus the beginning of spring!

This Swinomish 13 Moon is a time of herring, smelt, and halibut fishing as well as gathering the first nettle shoots for food. 🧪🐡⚒️🍎 #IndigenousSTEM

single blooming daffodil in a plot of many green bulb leaves.

Spring is coming!

Our Environmental Grant Administrator position is still open and accepting job applications.

Position is funded by Tribal general fund hard dollars, not grant funded soft dollars.

Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge With more than fifty contributors, Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge offers important perspectives by Indigenous Peoples on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indig...

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a hand holding up the paperback book, "Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge". on the cover is an eagle silhouette in white in front of a starry background and above green stylized flower leaves and yellow flowers with red petals.

first page of table of contents of "Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge" book. Chapter 6 is titled: Swinomish Place-based Science, Culture, and Environmental Education: An Indigenous Approach to Environmental and Resource Issues, By Todd A. Mitchell swəlítub, Page 86.

Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Edited by Lara A. Jacobs. "Indigenous Peoples have shared values, but we live them out in ways that reflect the places where our Tribes emerged as People and the communities in which we live. Jacobs has created a touchstone in these collected essays and reflections from Indigenous Peoples throughout the so-called Americas and beyond, giving voice to the various ways we live out relationships, reciprocity, and responsibility. I will return to these words again and again, and so will you." -PATTY KRAWEC, author of Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future With more than 50 contributors, this book offers important perspectives by Indigenous Peoples on TEK and Indigenous value systems. The book aims to educate and inspire readers about the importance of decolonizing how Indigenous Knowledges are considered and used outside of Native communities. By including the work of Indigenous storytellers, poets, and scholars from around the globe, Jacobs and chapter authors effectively explore the Indigenous value systems—relationships, reciprocity, and responsibility—that are fundamental to Indigenous Knowledge systems and cultures. Indigenous languages and positionality statements are featured for each of the contributors to frame their cultural and geographical background and to allow each Indigenous voice to lead discussions and contribute critical discourse to the literature on Indigenous Knowledges and value systems. By creating space for each of these individual voices, this volume challenges colonial extraction norms and highlights the importance of decolonial methods in understanding and protecting Indigenous Knowledges. This is an essential resource for students, academics, members of Tribal, state, and federal governments, Indigenous communities, and non-Indigenous allies as well as a valuable addition to environmental and Indigenous studies collections.

The paper on our indigenous science work at Swinomish has just arrived in the published book "Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge"!

Thanks @ecohugger.bsky.social for getting this published! & thanks @kjrm.bsky.social for helping with all the work!
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Native strawberry white flowers cluster surrounded by its strawberry leaves.

📣We have a new paper out on our work developing a wetland rating system that incorporates Tribal cultural values and functions to create a more robust and culturally relevant wetland rating system.
🌿 Congrats to all my co-authors who have worked on this project! 🧪🍎🐡⚒️ #IndigenousSTEM
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Awesome, way to go, professor!

A mostly white bi-color ragdoll cat with blue eyes, pink nose, and brown ears looking at camera seated next to a clear bag package of multi-colored springs (green, yellow, blues, and pink), with each spring about 1 inch diameter and 2 inches long, like short sections of spirals from spiral bound printed documents.

Happy 3rd birthday to Pesto aka Smols!

He got a pack of 100 toy springs!

May he not lose them like the old original pack of 20 that are nowhere to be found in the house.
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səxʷpupuhigᵂəd (suhw-POO-POO-ee-gwud),
Moon of the Windy Time,
2nd moon of the Swinomish 13 Moons cycle.

A time to hunt water fowl, elk, and deer; make tools and baskets like those made from ironwood.

Cloud & Wind hat pin beaded by forest.valley.craft! #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🍎⚒️🧪

Great to see the interviews with all the Swinomish leaders and WA politicians of the day as wells as @tasmitchell digging clams with the young filmmakers on March Pt! (3/3)

We discussed issues and themes of the movie including Treaty-reserved rights, environmental protection, natural resources contamination, oil refineries, and political effectiveness!
(2/3)

Swinomish Tribal youth filmmakers Cody ( behind camera), Travis, Nick and Todd on a beach, holding clam forks on a sunny day in summer.

Selfie with Swinomish Indigenous science teachers Todd and Jen Willup wearing beaded lanyards with school IDs and standing in front of a whiteboard.

Great day at Swinomish DEP’s Between Two Worlds (BTW) Indigenous Science class screening and discussing the MARCH POINT movie done by Tribal youth and former LaConner High students Nick Clark, Cody Cayou, and Travis Tom in 2005-2008 as part of Native Lens. (1/3)(redo w/pix)🧪🍎⚒️🐡 #IndigenousSTEM

We discussed issues and themes of the movie including Treaty-reserved rights, environmental protection, natural resources contamination, oil refineries, and political effectiveness!

We're still accepting job apps.
We're apparently really going to need all the grants help we can get in the coming years to keep our programs running.
FYI: this is hard money funded position to help look for and manage soft money.

I don’t even know my count, but i’ve used my vaccine cards every time to keep track for me!