Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon Across the North Pacific, edited by Benedict J. Colombi and James F. Brooks, thematically hit on so many of my interests that I couldn't help but get my hands on it. As I have mentioned before, I I love scholarship that takes old topics and revitalizes them by approaching them from unanticipated angles. This anthology does so on many levels. It combines environmental and indigenous histories - which I love - but then adds the transnational/transcontinental/transoceanic layers by looking at the topic from both sides of the North Pacific. Continue readingFrom the Bookshelf: Colombi and Brooks – Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon Across the North Pacific