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Grease Trails Trailer poster

Grease Trails Trailer

View "Grease Trails" the trailer produced by CWIS Associate Scholar Mirjam Hirch. Mirjam traveled into Western Canada several years ago exploring the pathways and trails marked in the forests of British Columbia, Victoria and the State of Washington by the oolichan grease trade that has animated the coastal Salish territories for more than 4,000 years. Mirjiam has earned her doctorate and is a resident of Darmstadt, Germany.

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