Chelsey Geralda Armstrong

Biographic Data

ID209540
NAMEChelsey Geralda Armstrong
GIVEN NAMESChelsey Geralda
FAMILY NAMEArmstrong
SIGNATUREARMSTRONG C G
AFFILIATIONSSimon Fraser University
ORCID0000-0003-2700-8507
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS125
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Legacies of Ancient Forest Gardening Along the Pacific Northwest Coast Highlight Broad Spatial and Cultural Variability

    Open AccessSara Wickham, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2026References: 60

    In British Columbia (BC), Canada, as in many other parts of the world, past Indigenous management of forests has resulted in relict forest gardens composed of herbaceous, understory, tree, and shrub species with nutritional, material, cultural, and/or economic value that continue to grow adjacent to habitation sites, villages, and archaeological sites. However, recognition of these bio-culturally important sites has been lacking in research, cons…

  • Soil phytoliths as indicators of Sts'ailes (Coast Salish) stewardship legacies and history at Lhemqwó: Tel in western Canada

    Open AccessLevi Cormier, Morgan Ritchie et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2026References: 94

  • Ethnoecological perspectives on environmental stewardship: Tenets and basis of reciprocity in Gitxsan and nłeʔkepmx (Nlaka'pamux) Territories

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda Armstrong, Jennifer Grenz et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Local and Indigenous Peoples steward and protect a significant proportion of biologically diverse ecosystems globally. This fact is increasingly acknowledged by researchers and international organizations, offering both opportunities and challenges at the intersection of Indigenous and western knowledge production in the context of environmental management research and policy. Drawing on half a century of ethnoecological research and personal exp…

  • Cultural Keystone Places and Historical Ecology: Conceptual Benefits and Ethical Impacts

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda ArmstrongARTICLEEthnobiology Letters2025Cited by: 1

    The papers in this special issue employ cultural keystone places (CKPs) as a concept to engage scholarship about land. The CKP concept is used in contrast to Eurocentric understandings of place and instead acknowledges the deeper meanings of place to local communities. Research employing the concept is increasingly common through the lens of historical ecology, an integrative research paradigm in ethnobiology and archaeology. In this introduction…

  • Threats to Heritage in Cultural Keystone Places: Fitting Western Concepts into Gitxsan Legal Orders and Laws

    Open AccessArdythe Wilson Dimdiigibuu, Chelsey Geralda ArmstrongARTICLEEthnobiology Letters2025Cited by: 1

    Resource extraction poses significant threats to cultural heritage sites and landscapes across British Columbia (BC, Canada), particularly in Gitxsan Territories, where people’s values are often overlooked in archaeological heritage management and consulting contexts. This research explores how Gitxsan legal orders and stewardship principles can contribute to conserving and restoring culturally and ecologically significant places—crucial work in …

  • Living Archaeological Sites: Documenting and Uplifting 2,700 Years of Cultural-Ecological Heritage in Sts'ailes Territory, SW British Columbia

    Open AccessSage Vanier, Patrick Morgan Ritchie et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2025Cited by: 1

    This study advocates for shifting archaeological praxes to ones that include ecological heritage-biotic features of a landscape that hold cultural, educational, and historical significance. Historically, archaeologists have tended to overlook ecological heritage, such as "living sites," emphasizing built heritage and manufactured tools and features over ecosystems shaped and stewarded by people. We bring together archaeological, ecological, and a…

  • Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency: A Citizen Science Photovoice With Kitselas First Nation

    Tammara Soma, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Planning…2024

    Problem, research strategy and findings Planners conduct community food assessments for the purpose of supporting community food security efforts. However, assessments of community food assets, including their availability and access, are often limited in their consideration of ecological and cultural assets that are central to Indigenous food systems. Moreover, what are considered mainstream food assets may not reflect the everyday lived experie…

  • The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for

    Open AccessAarón Moisés Santana-Cordero, Péter Szabó et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2024References: 64

    In recent decades, there has been a growing number of studies exploring the historical dimensions of the interconnectedness of human societies and the environment. A core approach in this field is historical ecology. We analyzed 544 historical-ecological papers to assess patterns and trends in the field. We found a high degree of interdisciplinarity with a focus on local case studies, of periods of fewer than 500 years, analyzing archival sources…

  • The global relevance of locally grounded ethnobiology

    Open AccessÁlvaro Fernández‐llamazare, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology and…2024Cited by: 3References: 123

    While ethnobiology is a discipline that focuses on the local, it has an outstanding, but not yet fully realized potential to address global issues. Part of this unrealized potential is that universalistic approaches often do not fully recognize culturally grounded perspectives and there are multiple challenges with scaling up place-based research. However, scalability is paramount to ensure that the intimate and context-specific diversity of huma…

  • Reply to Oswald et al: Scale in studies of pre-colonial forests

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda Armstrong, D Lepofsky et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2023

  • Integrating Historical Ecology and Environmental Justice

    Open AccessWolverton, Steve Wolverton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2023

    Environmental justice studies (EJS) provides a framework for interdisciplinary research and advocacy in the realm of cultural heritage research and management. Ethnobiologists, in particular those who focus on environmental archaeology, are no strangers to the heritage arena as our scholarship commonly concerns “cultural keystone places,” which are rich with meaning for one or more groups of people. Three dimensions and three core concepts of EJS…

  • Historical ecology of forest garden management in L a xyuubm Ts’msyen and beyond

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda Armstrong, N Lyons et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2023Cited by: 7References: 10

    Cultural land-use is an important driver of ecosystem change, influencing the composition of species across landscapes and through time. Recent research in northwestern North America has shown that historical Indigenous land-use and forest management has resulted in relict forest gardens dominated by edible fruit, nut, and berry producing trees and shrubs – many of which continue to grow adjacent to archaeological village sites today. Our researc…

  • Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda Armstrong, Anne Spice et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2023Cited by: 2References: 30

    Despite their unmistakable significance in regional histories and unique roles in cultural transmission and traditions, Indigenous trail systems are frequently ignored in non-Indigenous heritage resource management regimes. These regulatory regimes often require that heritage have discrete spatial and temporal boundaries and predefined material attributes and functions. However, as landscape-scale connectors of peoples, places, and times that ble…

  • Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land use in Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda Armstrong, Jacob Earnshaw et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2022Cited by: 5References: 11

  • Ethnobiology Phase VI: Decolonizing Institutions, Projects, and Scholarship

    Open AccessAlex C Mcalvay, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2021

    Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize people and lands around the world and extract natural resources. Those legacies and practices persist today and continue to influence the institutions ethnobiologists are a part of, how they carry out research, and their personal beliefs and actions. Various authors have previously outlined five overlapping “phases” of ethnobiology. Here, we argue that ethnob…

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems

    Open AccessÁlvaro Fernández‐llamazare, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2021

    The knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities play critical roles in safeguarding the biological and cultural diversity of our planet. Globalization, government policies, capitalism, colonialism, and other rapid social-ecological changes threaten the relationships between Indigenous Peoples and local communities and their environments, thereby challenging the continuity and dynamism of Indigenous and Local Knowle…

  • Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda Armstrong, Jesse E D Miller et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021Cited by: 16

    Armstrong, C., J. Miller, A. C. McAlvay, P. M. Ritchie, and D. Lepofsky. 2021. Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity. Ecology and Society 26(2):6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12322-260206

  • Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America

    Open AccessNancy J Turner, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2021Cited by: 10References: 61

    In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition of the role humans play in the structure, composition, and function of ecosystems. Ethnoecological documentation of traditional management systems of Indigenous Peoples in northwestern North America has contributed significantly to this rethinking. A less well-recognized but foundational part of traditional management of this region is the practice of transplanting plants and plant propagu…

  • Ecologies of the Heart: People, Land, and Heritage Management in the Pacific Northwest

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda Armstrong, Eugene N AndersonCHAPTERArchaeologies of the Heart2020

  • Understanding the Past for the Future: Archaeology, Plants, and First Nations’ Land Use and Rights

    D Lepofsky, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong et al.CHAPTERPlants, People, and Places2020

  • Re-evaluating “Conservation Implications of Native American Impacts”

    Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, D Lepofsky et al.PREPRINT2020

    Commentary On: Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Shuman, B. N., Chilton, E. S., Doucette, D. L., Duranleau, D. L. Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England. Nature Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0466-0

  • Biomonitoring and Ethnobiology: Approaches to Fill Gaps in Indigenous Public and Environmental Health

    Open AccessÉlyse Caron-Beaudoin, Chelsey Geralda ArmstrongARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2019Cited by: 3References: 74

    Ethnobiology is well positioned to work in tandem with biomonitoring research to create a more complete understanding of how people experience and are affected by contaminated environments. Indigenous communities in proximity to unconventional natural gas (“fracking”) facilities face potential health risks that are often poorly assessed or not assessed at all. This contribution reviews a biomonitoring pilot research project in British Columbia (C…

  • Introduction to Special Section on Action Ethnobiology

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda Armstrong, Alex C McalvayARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2019Cited by: 7References: 46

  • Frontiers are Frontlines: Ethnobiological Science against Ongoing Colonialism

    Open AccessChelsey Geralda Armstrong, Christie BrownARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2019Cited by: 10References: 50

    Ethnobiologists are capable of making transformative scientific contributions when they participate in localized direct actions and acts of colonial dissent. Direct action tactics like blockades, protests, and re-occupations of territories are often used as (alternative) approaches for marginalized and disenfranchised communities who face expensive and oppressive justice systems. As natural resource extraction and development in settler nations c…

  • The Vulnerability of Archaeological Logic in Aboriginal Rights and Title Cases in Canada: Theoretical and Empirical Implications

    Andrew Martindale, Chelsey Geralda ArmstrongARTICLECollaborative anthropologies2019Cited by: 3

    The history of archaeological evidence in Aboriginal rights and title cases in Canada illustrates an alignment between archaeological arguments regarding Indigenous history and recent court rulings. Although there are associations between cases that rule in favor of Indigenous rights and contemporary archaeological thinking and between rulings against Indigenous rights and older forms of archaeological reasoning, we argue that there is a more fun…