Andrew Negreiff
Summary
I am a student graduating from a four-year program at Thompson Rivers University with a degree in Physical Geography. A member of Kamloops Indian Band, I have worked in various sectors of forestry through the BC First Nations Forestry Council’s Indigenous Forestry Scholarship Program, conducting both field-based layout work and analytical, research-based office work, and would like to apply my experience ultimately to working with Native-run environmental initiatives.
My research focus is centered around the spatial variance of phenomena over landscapes, and I have completed multiple projects which narrate and synthesize both physical and cultural components of local geography
Selected Academic/Research Projects
- Piece discussing recordings by OutKast, De La Soul, and others; attempts are made to place said recordings within personal/emotional and historic/musicological contexts.
“Changes at Strawberry Heights from 2001 to 2006.” (2022)
- Short story map involving analysis of changes in vegetation at Strawberry Heights – an area of familial importance – using satellite imagery in LandSat Explorer, articulated via interesting colloquial syntax.
“There is No Past, Present or Future” (2023)
- Fictional shaping-story regarding deer with chronic wasting disease, certain animals and localities of Vernon, and the antisocial self-allowances of hospital workers.
“BC First Nations Forestry Conference Report” (2023)
- 3000+ word report on the 2023 BC First Nations Forestry Conference, which upon receipt by the BC First Nation Forestry Council was incorporated, in part, into the Council’s official conference report.
“Research Project – Strawberry Heights – Changes over the past 100 years” (2023)
- Extensive study on the Strawberry Heights area, entailing the scanning, reshaping, and georeferencing of 20th century air photos to constitute a set of maps which were subsequently utilized within Ministry of Forests field outings conducted with my father and uncle – elders from Kamloops Indian Band – wherein points of cultural, historical, and ecological importance were described, recorded for subsequent transcription, and marked upon a digital map in Avenza
- Study resulted in a 5000+ word paper narrating the area’s physical geography, wildfire history, cultural import, and current state, collating and integrating my father and uncle’s memories and evaluations as sourced from 4-8 hours’ worth of transcribed field recordings
“TRU Campus Virtual Native Plant Tour” (2024)
- Text-based tour commissioned for use as a resource within an introductory Geography 1000 course
- Georeferenced, locally-embedded and field-sourced narration of native plants found on TRU campus, collating materials from a variety of sources to synthesize Western-derived plant evaluations and descriptions with Secwepemc ethnobotanical experience and story-telling
“An Exploration of Geophysical Surveys Conducted on Former Residential School Sites” (2024)
- Final research paper for Geophysics class entailing the summation and comparison of two ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys conducted at former residential school sites within Canada, including preliminary surveys conducted at the Kamloops Indian Residential School
“Salish Archive: Casimir Memoir-Writing Project” (2025)
- Body of work intended to organize, evaluate, and narrate my father Allan Casimir’s extensive cache of personal and business-centered documents towards eventual memoir development
- Includes an archival Omeka inventory of heterogenous documents – variously photographic, journalistic, and epistolary – scanned, described, and organized via tagging
- Further encompasses a chronologically organized memoir outline identifying key themes to guide the memoir-writing process, and transcribed recordings of routine home meetings conducted between myself, my father, and professor
“The Native reserve as a quasi-communist system within capitalist North America” (2025)
- Final research paper for Communism and the Environment class analyzing the contextually unique property ownership structures of the North American Indian reserve system and the attendant possibilities, constraints, and evaluations arising therefrom
“Jay Treaty Systems Map” (2025)
- Final Graduating Seminar project website presenting, contextualizing, and commentating upon a Kumu systems map representing – with rough geographic correspondence – multiple identified core actors and systems involved within the figuring of the Jay Treaty within North America
- Identifies the particulars of how geography-centered analytical frameworks – physical, cultural, human – form the lens(es) through which the mapped system is perceived and understood