Entanglements: Counter-Mapping the History of Asian Migration onto Coast Salish Lands

Anna Nguyen and Madison Heslop, History

Entanglements is a digital counter-mapping project constructed using Omeka and Neatline that charts the settler-colonial conditions of Asian migration onto Coast Salish lands by analyzing the intersections between Coast Salish and Asian American histories in the Seattle and Puget Sound area in a manner that is legible to a public audience. Entanglements uses methods of place-based history that engages with geography, ecology, and the built environment to "read" the city and its environs as a historical text. In doing so, Entanglements addresses how Asian Americans have historically been harmed by, implicated in, and/or resisted colonial-settler logics and structures in the Puget Sound, while also asking how we might generate new pathways towards further solidarity between Asian American communities and Indigenous nations.