YAKIMA, Wash. – The community is invited to an in-person conversation with Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau program member and professor Kestrel A. Smith at the Yakima Valley Museum on Wed., March 13, according to a press release.
The conversation will discuss the lasting effects of the “Fish Wars,” which refers to protests and acts of civil disobedience in the 1960s and 70s for the government to recognize tribal fishing rights.
Smith, the Department Chair of the American Indian Indigenous Studies (AIIS) program at Wenatchee Valley College-Omak, will look over evidence and events before and after the Fish Wars which impacted Washington for decades.
Smith’s work primarily involves figuring out how to place Indigenous epistemologies and education within historical and cultural contexts. She moved to Washington in Fall 2018 to start the AIIS program at Wenatchee Valley College-Omak.
The “Fish Wars: Tribal Rights, Resistance, and Resiliency in the Pacific Northwest” conversation is open to the public. It takes place at 6 p.m. at the Yakima Valley Museum, located at 2105 Tieton Drive.
