celebrating Earth Day on the Gulf Islands of south-western Canada through learning from black hawthorn, MÁT̸ŦEN ILĆ [SENĆOŦEN] / Metth’unulhp [Hul’q’umi’num’], Crataegus suksdorfii, one of a number of disappearing native fruit trees (growing from northern British Columbia to northern California to across the Rockies to Lake Superior) and how these trees persist, recolonize and can be protected and restored through social strategies rooted in contemporary culture