Acknowledging

Many parts of this book have been written in the temperate rain forest of Canada's West Coast, amid their soggy and vibrant communities.Specifically, many pages have been crafted alongside the Alouette River itself and surrounded by Water Strider, Step Moss, Sword Fern, Pacific Wren, Rough-Skinned Newt, Red Huckleberry, Douglas Squirrel, Skunk Cabbage, Red Cedar, and Chum Salmon, to name just a few.Many more pages have been conceptualized and penned in the presence of Harbor Seals, Pink Salmon, Glaucus Gull, Bald Eagle, Purple Sea Star, Gooseneck Barnacle, Bull Kelp, Hermit Crab, and the generous Pacific Ocean.These places and beings brought us inspiration, gifted us with ideas, and made pos si ble other ways of knowing and understanding our responsibilities to writing this book.They are our co-teachers and collaborators throughout this book.In similar ways, this book has also been created in companionship and collaboration with Cypress, Golden Ears, and Steele Mountains, Hardangerjøkulen Glacier; in the shadows of Red Cedar, Hemlock, Broad-leaf Maple, Red Alder, Douglas Fir, and Sitka Spruce; and amid the gifts of Sword Fern, Deer Fern, Lady Fern, Licorice Fern along with Salmon Berry, Black Berry, Huckle Berry, and Blue Berry.We are grateful for the microworld teachings of mosses, lichens, and fungi and to all the twittering, strutting, slipping, and hopping feathered beings and amphibians and reptiles-too vast in number to name.We are grateful to all the four-legged and furry ones who have left tracks, scents, inspirations, and lessons for us along the way.And we express gratitude to all those whirring, fluttering, plodding, scurrying, sliding smaller beings of earth and sky and the stones, soil, Sun, and weather that hold and protect them and us along the way.Our engagement with these beings has occurred on the territory of Indigenous Nations, in par tic u lar the Coast Salish and we are so thankful to the Elders, teachers, and community members who have spent time with the students and patiently listened as we fumbled around in search of moments of understanding.Without their stewardship, guidance, and incredible generosity in terms of patience, shared story, time spent with learners the work and these lands in fact would be the lesser for all.As authors, we write from our perspectives as white settler scholars and educators trying to live in better relationship with the unsurrendered and traditional territories of Shishalh, Katzie, Kwantlen, and Snuneymux peoples in the place colonially known as British Columbia, Canada.

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