Olympia UU Congregation, WA

Learning Right Relations

Solidarity with Tribes of the South Salish Sea

Learning Right Relations (LRR) is a series of classes, auxiliary meetings and visits to Tribal sites aimed at addressing the historic marginalization and ongoing inequities of our Coast Salish neighbors.

The project was co-founded in the autumn of 2015 by Douglas Mackey and Pat Rasmussen–each with more than 30 years of collaborative work with several Tribes–as classes offered by the Adult Ed Committee of the Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Learning Right Relations has become an interfaith action group that meets monthly and is involved year-round in activities that support the following:

VISION
The Indians of the Medicine Creek Treaty, their Coast Salish neighbors and all Indians living in our region experience respect, honor and support for their way of life.

MISSION
We walk a path of learning and living to address the historic marginalization and ongoing inequities experienced by our Coast Salish neighbors; and we share the responsibility to care for this place, their homelands, where we mutually abide.

OUUC’s Learning Right Relations has been extremely busy.  A historical overview of there activities can be found in the pdf files listed below.

LRR History, Part 1_ Autumn 2015 – July 2017

LRR History, Part 2 (April 5, 2018)

In addition to these many projects, Pat Rasmussen of OUUC also authored this piece of work: What happened to the Steh-chass people.June 2016 5-2, who once lived near Tumwater Falls and other sites in and around Olympia.

Current events

The Indian System Film Screening

Posted on 21. June 2020 by webmaster

Hosted by the Learning Right Relations group (Olympia).

The Indian System

Sunday, June 21, 2020 / Time: 1:00 – 3:15 pm (Pacific time) Zoom film screening.

Sheldon P Wolfchild, producer and director of The Indian System, will introduce the film and join the audience after the screening to share the story of the making of the film, it’s importance in today’s world, and discuss ways forward during this time when there are now related fires burning in Minnesota. After the screening Mr. Wolfchild will be joined by historian Dr. David Nichols to speak in greater depth about the Indian System.

David A. Nichols, author of Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics, assisted Wolfchild with research for the documentary that has recently been republished in a third edition by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Nichols, a leading expert on the Eisenhower presidency, holds a Ph.D. in history from William and Mary and is the former academic dean at Southwestern College in Kansas. He lives in Winfield, Kansas.

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