Hailey Maria Salazar (Yoeme) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies department at Portland State University. Hailey Maria is grounded in research and education as a process of reclamation, revitalization, and regeneration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Her areas of interest include Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge (ITECK), ethnobotany, ethnomusicology, archives, liberative praxis, and data sovereignty. Hailey Maria holds a Bachelor of Arts in Native American and Indigenous Studies with a focus on Indigenous medicine and music from The Evergreen State College, and a Master of Arts in Indigenous Education from Arizona State University.