Hi, I'm Monica Nicholsberg.

And I'm Joshua McNichols.

We host KUOW's Economy Podcast, Booming.

Seattle is reeling from rounds and rounds of tech layoffs.

It's part of a trend in the tech industry that's pushing Seattle's unemployment rate well above the national average.

These are senior people with years and years of experience trying to navigate this labor market. On the latest

episode, is Seattle facing a tech recession? Listen to booming on the KUOW app or wherever you get your

podcasts. Hi, all. This episode is so special to me, and I hope it will be for you too. It was so moving

spending time with the Calispell tribe

and learning about them and their incredible work with Buffalo. But before we start,

I wanted to quickly give a shout out to some members of our growing Patreon community.

Wes S, Jess S, Meredith O, Nicole T, Teresa L and Fabrice F.

Thank you.

Okay, let's get to the Buffalo.

Imagine you're looking at the Pacific Northwest from above.

Washington State is a big rectangle,

with the lush forests and waters of Puget Sound bitten out of the top left corner.

Head east, and you come to a steep mountain range, the cascades, covered in jagged peaks, licked by glaciers.

Keep going, and you cross the Columbia Basin, a giant giant rolling prairie carpeted in wheat fields and corn.

You're now almost all the way to the right-hand edge of the rectangle, just short of Idaho.

Stop when you reach a narrow 8-mile by half-mile strip of land.

This is the Calispell Indian Reservation,

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