Category: Geology and First Nation Story
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When Oral Tradition Meets the Rock Record at Qwélqwélústen (Mount Meager)
As a scientist working in First Nations territory in southwest British Columbia, I have come to deeply value the knowledge embedded in Indigenous oral histories. That respect deepened profoundly when a centuries-old Líl̓wat account converged—precisely and independently—with quantitative measurements derived from my own geological fieldwork. Between 2019 and 2023, I conducted detailed geological mapping of…