Collective Learning

A section devoted to relevant books, films, podcasts, documentaries, reports, and other resources, recommended items that help make sense of our bioregion and the world. It’s stuff we like and hope you will, too.

The Roadless Rule Tribal Hub was created to connect Native communities with the facts, on-the-ground tools to submit letters, and more. 

By: Nicholas Triolo 

A popular climate podcast is upping the stakes with some of the smartest and boldest conversations yet. Here are the five must-listen new episodes from their fifth season so far.
How do we come to terms with the discomfort of our times and reshape it for our purposes? This interview with author Rebecca Solnit explores how. 

By: Kaïa Kirkbride

The most comprehensive assessment of Indigenous Guardians programs to date has just been released, outlining the enormous scale of benefits to communities, First Nations, and the bioregion.

By: Indigenous Leadership Initiative

An interview with systems thinker, educator, and designer Howard Silverman, to learn more about ‘Warm Data’ and an upcoming training in Portland.

By: Nicholas Triolo

For your summer adventures, here are our favorite audio experiences that will inspire, inform, and activate systems change in the bioregion.

By: Magic Canoe

Beyond Ecological Grief is a six-part podcast, based in Salmon Nation, investigating the emotional realities of living through a planetary health crisis.

By: Magic Canoe

As Native students seek careers in conservation and Indigenous-led stewardship, the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission has partnered with University of Washington to create a solution.

By: Nicholas Triolo

Faye Cox, founder and editor-in-chief of Hourbooks, is dedicated to creating a library of hour-long books on essential topics for this critical time on the planet—books that are accessible and authoritative. Small books on big topics.

By: Nicholas Triolo

A podcast series about the rise of mariculture along the Oregon coast.

By: Kaïa Kirkbride

“Ologies” is a comedic science podcast hosted and produced by writer, actress, science-correspondent, comedian, and self-proclaimed “pod-dad” Alie Ward. The series has, previously, been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s top 50 podcasts.

By: Kaïa Kirkbride

A joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. 

By: Robert Macfarlane

2026 marks the ten-year anniversary of the Indigenous resistance at Standing Rock in North Dakota. This book is a must-read history of the movement.

By: Nick Estes

Here are five resources our Magic Canoe staff found in 2025 that oriented us to the moment, and to a promising future.

By: Magic Canoe

A Peabody-nominated podcast from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University tells the story of the world’s dominant economic system—how it emerged and evolved over the centuries—and explores how it might be transformed.
This podcast series by Katy Shields and Vegard Beyer tells the true story of why The Limits to Growth (1972), after positive initial reception, was fought against and has since been largely ignored.
“Salmon Wars” is a six-part podcast series in which one Yakama Nation family tells the story of the fight to save vanishing salmon in the Northwest.
We've distilled research into a pattern of interconnected principles that underlie systemic health to represent the eight pillars of regenerative economic vitality.

By: Capital Institute

With public programming on the chopping block, here are our favorite PBS-supported films about Indigenous communities, situated in Salmon Nation.

By: Nicholas Triolo

Grab a paddle. It’s time to work together.

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