Pamela Spalding is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice at Syracuse University. She is also an Adjunct Professor and Sessional Lecturer at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Pamela is an ethnobotanist whose research examines dimensions of Indigenous people’s relationships with native plants, ecosystems, resource stewardship, Indigenous legal orders, property, and customary legal landscapes. In her current book project, she foregrounds Indigenous women’s legal interests in native plants and terrestrial ecosystems and therein the resurgence of Indigenous laws in plant and resource stewardship, ecosystem health and environmental legislation in Canada and the US. Her collaborative research with T’Sou-ke Nation indicates that the magnitude of native plant use in the traditional economies and lifeways of Indigenous peoples across North America warrants a much larger discussion about Indigenous plant use and ecosystem management in Canadian, US, and tribal law and Indigenous governance. Pamela is a Métis Canadian and an enrolled citizen of Métis Nation BC.