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Coyote and Raven Take a Trip Down Under: Religion, Spirituality & Story Dr. Pat O’Riley is an honorary associate professor in the Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia. She has taught at universities in Canada, Aotearoa-New Zealand, and the USA. Pat’s teaching and research focus on the convergences of technologies (digital, non-digital, ecotechnologies), social justice, and ecological justice in local and global contexts. For over two decades, Pat has been conducting research with Indigenous communities in British Columbia on the regeneration of their traditional ecological knowledges and practices. Her current research is with the Kichwa-Lamista in the High Amazon of Peru to support them in their cultural sustainability and ecological sustainability, and their efforts to have their voices heard in the academy and beyond as counter-narratives to the predominant “progress” narratives through self-directed documentary filming. Pat has been the co-advisor of the MEd in Ecojustice & Sustainability Education, and co-director of the Peru Global Seminar: Ecology, Technology & Indigeneity in the High Amazon. She has served on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education and Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. Dr. Peter Cole is of St’át’imc and Celtic heritage. He is an associate professor, Indigenous Education, in the Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia. He is co-advisor of a MEd in Ecojustice & Sustainability Education cohort, and co-director of the bi-annual Peru Global Seminar: Ecology, Technology & Indigeneity in the High Amazon. Prior to coming to UBC, Peter was an associate professor at the University College of the North, Head of First Nations Education at the University of Victoria, and assistant professor in Environmental Studies at York University. Peter’s scholarship centres on equivalency of Indigenous knowledges and practices, narrativity, and orality as equivalent genres for the creation and dissemination of knowledge, and ecojustice and sustainability learning in the Global North and Global South. All of Peter’s academic publications in books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed academic and literary journals have been written in a narrative form, a type of ‘oral writing/speaking on the page’ so that his scholarship can be accessible not only to the academy, but to the communities with whom he is conducting research, as well as the wider public. For over two decades, Peter’s research with Indigenous communities in British Columbia, and more recently with the Kichwa-Lamista in the High Amazon of Peru, has focused on regeneration of Indigenous languages, knowledges, ways of knowing, and ecotechnological practices to support them in cultural renewal and ecological sustainability. His current research with the Kichwa-Lamista explores how the interdependent enactments between the human and more-than-human contribute to their survival and continuance.