Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 9 AM – 3 PM Olympia State Capital Building 416 Sid Snyder Ave SW, Olympia, Washington 98501 Join us for the lobby day for a free-flowing Snake River in Olympia on Tuesday, February 5th. We will be meeting with Washington State Legislative representatives and … [Read more...]
Indigenous Action – San Juan Islands National Monument
WhiteSwan Environmental, a local Native group, is requesting our assistance in helping bring more recognition of indigenous perspectives to the care and management of the San Juan Islands Monument. A commenting period, which ends January 3, 2019 is open for public comment and we are being asked to … [Read more...]
Unist’ot’en Camp in Need of Support Now!
On December 14th, the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled in favor of an injunction against the Unist’ot’en Camp. This injunction is requiring that the gate blocking the way into the pipeline construction area to be removed so Coastal GasLink (as subsidiary of TransCanada) can get there and begin … [Read more...]
Canadian Court gives Coastal Gasoline permission to violate Indigenous rights
The Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship and other UU congregations have supported the Unist'ot'en Camp in the past and the Camp will be needing more help as the BC Supreme Court moves against them. Watch for more … [Read more...]
A Native American tribe demands the return of its spiritual relative
https://religionnews.com/2018/12/10/a-native-american-tribe-demands-the-return-of-its-spiritual-relative-an-orca/?fbclid=IwAR0BzybJcOfK9KzhiczEbvLIvVMPKfi-Ami7uILMPsOM_0Oo96p6e_gsdNQ … [Read more...]
Windstorm Outtage Kills Millions of Young Salmon At WDFW Hatchery
http://nwsportsmanmag.com/windstorm-outtage-kills-millions-of-young-salmon-at-wdfw-hatchery-devastating-loss/?fbclid=IwAR2dvyQ9icIzZRgqDZME0BuANyJ8cRc3uuPj_RwztQB0_kLkVs_Knjz2HH0 … [Read more...]
Why famished orcas may have to wait 90 years for more salmon
The 2005 federal recovery plan for chinook salmon had more ambitious timelines: 25 years in the Skagit, 50 years in the rest of Puget Sound. Either pace might be far too slow for the region’s remaining 74 southern resident killer whales, starving for salmon today. Read more here. … [Read more...]
Pacific Northwest tribe enlists unusual allies in fight to save the Salish Sea from fossil fuel threats: museums
https://lastrealindians.com/pacific-northwest-tribe-enlists-unusual-allies-in-fight-to-save-the-salish-sea-from-fossil-fuel-threats-museums/mattremle/ … [Read more...]
Pop-Up Museums as Political Organizing: Can Totem Poles Help Turn the Tide on Fossil Fuels?
For the last six years, the new totem poles have focused on issues relating to the fossil fuel industry. The newest carving emphasizes risks to the Salish Sea (off northwest Washington and southwest British Columbia) and its dwindling population of orcas, or killer whales, if proposed industry … [Read more...]
NORTHWEST TRIBAL LEADERS TESTIFY IN OPPOSITION TO CANADIAN PIPELINE EXPANSION
Opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline from Coast Salish Tribes on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border continued today with indigenous people of the Salish Sea region testifying before the Canadian National Energy Board. Four U.S. Coast Salish Tribes — the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, … [Read more...]
Federal court won’t reopen case of captive orca Lolita
Activist groups have lost the latest battle in a decades long fight to free an orca named Lolita from the Miami Seaquarium. The Miami Herald reports a federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a petition to reopen a lawsuit over Seaquarium’s treatment of Lolita. The decision says that, at … [Read more...]
BEING FRANK: TO HELP ORCAS, EAT CHINOOK
From the Northwest Treaty Tribes: Don’t stop eating or serving chinook salmon if you want to help recover Southern Resident Killer Whales. It might make you feel better for a while, but it accomplishes little and makes recovering chinook even harder, by devastating the livelihoods of fishermen … [Read more...]
‘Our relatives are calling for help’ – Northwest Tribes stand up for dying Orcas
J-35 or Tahlequah, was a young orca mother who pushed the lifeless body of her newborn calf in front of her for 17 days To researchers she is J-35. To the Native people of the Salish Sea she is Tahlequah, the young orca mother who pushed the lifeless body of her newborn calf in … [Read more...]
Angry at plight of southern-resident orcas, speakers rebuke NOAA in public meetings
Mon., Sept. 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m. Samish Nation member Leslie Eastwood, center, raises her arms with others at Deception Pass Park’s Bowman Bay on Sunday after completing a love song performed for those gathering for a vigil to remember the dead baby orca and her mother, Tahlequah, as … [Read more...]
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