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.
After recent declines, a new breeding program could help safeguard the cockle’s future as a food source for tribes like the Suquamish. by Hannah Weinberger, December 18, 2019 – Crosscut When Suquamish tribal member Robin Sigo returned home from college in 1998, the cockles weren’t there to greet her. . . Over the past three springs…
Canada is at a critical crossroads. The Wet’suwet’en conflict brings us to a deciding moment in Canada, one that will shape the future of the nation. The divisive conflict is about land, Indigenous law, human rights and the nature of civil disobedience. . . . Indigenous resistance to encroachment on their own lands is being…
Journal of Universalist History Volume XLI (2017-2018) Special Issue: 2016 Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Studies Editor: Kathleen R. Parker 2018, Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Center The Montana Industrial school for Indians at Romona Ranch, 1886-1897 by Dana Capasso Stivers, pgs. 38 – 65 Dana Capasso Stivers has, so far to date, offered up one…
A good, brief overview of the tribal enrollment process and it’s complexities and challenges for Indian Country. Native scholars have asserted that as ‘American Indian’ people, we occupy a liminal status in the United States, neither fully part of the status quo or apart from it, due to our tribal ‘sovereignty’ or government-to-government relationship with…
Over the past few weeks, as the potential impacts of a dam have become clear, lines have been drawn between members of a group bound by state law to work together. The Chehalis Tribe has opposed construction of a dam on the river for years, and the Quinault Indian Nation declared its opposition to the project…
Two Alaska Native youth introduced a resolution on climate change adopted earlier in the week at the Elders and Youth Conference. The hour-long discussion that followed ended with acclamation for Nanieezh Peter, who is Neets’ail Gwich’in, age 15, and Quannah Chasing Horse Potts, who is Gwich’in and Lakota, age 17. The resolution they brought to…
