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Presented by Children of the Setting Sun Productions Sunday, October 13 at 2:45 A Pickdford Film Center offering Bellingham, WA a hosted presentation and discussion after the screening Children of the Setting Sun Productions returns after a full year of filming in and around the Salish Sea. Come see the vibrancy of local Native cultures in…
Efforts to bring orca Tokitae home chronicled in new book
A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity: The Fight To Bring Lolita Home by Sandra Pollard. http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/life/efforts-to-bring-orca-tokitae-home-chronicled-in-new-book/
Reclaiming Native Truth – Lessons Learned from Standing Rock
The movement at Standing Rock significantly undermined the systemic erasure of Native peoples from the dominant American narrative. At a time when most Americans continued to believe that Native Americans and Nations no longer exist in the United States, Americans were presented with a movement that forced a new conversation around values, identity, and our…
Trump wants to speed up the Snake River dams decision. Democrats wonder why the rush
BY ANNETTE CARY APRIL 14, 2019 11:48 AM, UPDATED APRIL 14, 2019 12:10 PM Criticism of speeding up a study looking at removing the Lower Snake River dams smells like an attempt to undermine the study’s validity, says Tri-Cities Congressman Dan Newhouse. In October 2018 President Trump required that a new environmental study on management…
CUC Response to the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)
The Canadian Unitarian Council acknowledges the systemic and ongoing nature of colonization of Indigenous peoples, land, and resources on this land. We are becoming more aware of the many ways in which colonization unjustly privileges settlers at the expense of Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge the findings and calls to justice of the Missing and Murdered…
Police Were Ready to Shoot Indigenous Pipeline Protesters in Canada, Documents Reveal
RCMP higher-ups also told their officers to “use as much violence toward the gate as you want.” Police were ready to arrest both children and grandparents, and one document mentioned the possibility of sending children to social services. Historically, the RCMP forcibly removed indigenous children from their homes to place them in residential schools. “Here…