Previously, he was the director of teacher education at Northwest Indian College at the Lummi reservation in Washington State. His work, analyzing the history and politics of Indigenous education, has appeared in Paedagogica Historica, History of Education, History of Education Review, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Canadian Journal of Native Education, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. His present research brings to light ecological education and place-based pedagogies in the Coast Salish region. His forthcoming publications are focused on Indigenous historiographies, traditional ecological knowledge, and Indigenous research methodologies.