Phurwa Dondrub Dolpopa is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences at the Department of Geography, the University of British Columbia. His research primarily focuses on environmental politics, development, and Indigeneity in the Nepal Himalaya, with particular attention to questions of power, knowledge, and agency. The first component of this work examines the caterpillar fungus and the snow leopard to understand how Himalayan lifeways and traditional institutions of governance are fundamentally altered by and respond to global biodiversity conservation efforts and national state-making projects in Dolpo. The other component involves a long-term collaborative project to document a wide array of Dolpo oral literature genres, centering the content and process of doing this work to theorize the relational and governance values of Indigenous knowledge.