Just published: a paper on our Swinomish Camas Project & one on regional PNW camas stewardahip! We've learned and done a lot since starting our Swinomish Generation Camas project in 2019. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪🐡🍎⚒️ bioone.org/journals/nat...
Todd Mitchell
@tasmitchell.bsky.social
Native American (Swinomish)/Asian (he/him), Indigenous Scientist, Geologist, Environmental Protection @ Swinomish Tribe. Husband & Dad. Certified Indigenous science teacher. Skeets my own. IG: @tasmitchell; @swinomishdep; Swinomish territory, WA, USA 💙🚴🐈
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. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪⚒️🍎🐡
Yesterday’s 1st intermission is for walking the cat & smelling the tulips! Smols says, “Meow (Go Torrent)!” @seattletorrent.bsky.social
That time of year in WA. Have you heard the pacific tree frogs talking yet?
Todd Mitchell@tasmitchell.bsky.social · last yr.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
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 🐡🍎⚒️🧪
See our latest video about the first modern traditional fire management brought back to Swinomish in 2023 for our Generations Camas Project! 🔥 #IndigenousSTEM 🧪⚒️🐡🍎
Swinomish Camas Project (Part 14 Cultural Burn)(2023)
Traditional food revitalization, learning about camas and how to reintroduce to our Coast Salish Tribal Community in Washington State. Part 14, 2023, First Modern…
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Continuing our Swinomish Generations Camas project video series. See our activities in early 2023 in preparation for our first modern cultural burn! #IndigenousSTEM 🧪⚒️🐡🍎
Swinomish Camas Project (Part 13)(2023)
Traditional food revitalization, learning about camas and how to reintroduce to our Coast Salish Tribal Community in Washington State. Part 13, 2023 Community camas…
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On another note to take a break from the news cycle, it’s that time of year for the groundhog cookies and winter weather forecast by a large rodent! "I'll give you a winter prediction: it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life." - Phil
40 years ago, STS-51L, Teacher in space.🍎 Watched in HS class with rest of country. Place of honor on my patch jacket. Depicts Haley’s comet as intended mission’s research. I’d read patches like this were payload on Challenger, recovered, framed and gifted to each state as commemoration. 🧪🐡⚒️
Restarting 13 Moons bead posts, didn’t get ‘em all last year pədx̌aʔx̌aʔ - Moon of the Sacred Time, last moon of annual cycle as well as the beginning moon of the next Swinomish 13 Moons cycle; time to reflect on the last year, recharge your spirituality, plan for the next year. #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🧪🍎⚒️
Minneapolis leads the way. Fascism cannot stand against a people who rise up by the millions against it.
Please pass the word... we are hiring 3 different positions in our Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection: - Environmental Science Communicator/Outreach Specialist Also, Water Quality Analyst & Vegetation Specialist www.swinomish-nsn.gov/jobs #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🧪🍎⚒️
Please pass the word... we are hiring 3 different positions in our Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection: - Water Quality Analyst Also, Vegetation Specialist & Environmental Science Communicator/Outreach Specialist www.swinomish-nsn.gov/jobs #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🧪🍎⚒️
Please pass the word... we are hiring 3 different positions in our Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection: - Vegetation Specialist Also, Environmental Science Communicator/Outreach Specialist, & Water Quality Analyst www.swinomish-nsn.gov/jobs #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🧪🍎⚒️
Here’s the Christmas ornaments we made and gave out to our Tribal Community along with more Christmas Clams books. Wood discs cut from Lone Tree windfall wood with illustrated clams and our DEP logo laser etched on each side. #IndigenousSTEM 🍎🧪⚒️🐡
Our next Swinomish children’s book came! Basket Ogress as told my late grandfather, Dewey Mitchell in Lushootseed in the 1970’s. Thanks to Jill LaPointe for sending yrs ago from her grandmother’s papers. Now the Mitchells are 4 generations of authors continuing storytelling! #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🧪⚒️🍎
Peak Skagit River flow lower than predicted, still 1/3’ higher than 1990 record. I didn’t go look but news last nite showed water near top of river walk guard-hand rail (far right). Floodwall keeping downtown Mt. Vernon safe, hope they can open up soon for more Xmas shopping! #IndigenousSTEM 🧪⚒️🍎🐡
Predicting a big flood on the Skagit River ~5’ above the record. Mount Vernon west of I-5 evacuated. Hope all our Skagit County community makes it thru ok. We live way up on the hill cuz of geologists (us) house buying criteria back 20+ years ago. #IndigenousSTEM
Christmas cactus blooming like it’s an early Xmas! Pesto in background is not impressed.
It’s the season for Scary Stories (Tee by @ntvsclothing ). Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! #IndigenousSTEM 🐡🧪🍎⚒️
25+ years (and 3 boxes of biz cards) at Swinomish doing Geology, Environmental, and Indigenous Science work. And as department director for 12 years! Thanks to all those who've helped along the way and my Tribe for putting their faith in me to protect our homeland!
Important new piece by Indigenous scholars—including ecologists @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social and @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social (who is here at #ESA2025 this week)—who set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.
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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. 🧪⚒️🍎 #IndigenousSTEM
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...
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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! #IndigenousSTEM 🧪🍎🐡⚒️
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. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪🍎🐡⚒️
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!
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. #IndigenousSTEM 🧪⚒️🍎🐡
