This op-ed was published in The Chronicle (Centralia) on February 15, 2021 by Tyson Johnston, vice president of the Quinault Indian Nation, and Larry Lestelle, a consulting fisheries biologist to the Quinault Indian Nation who has worked for more than 40 years on salmon management and habitat restoration.
Category: Indigenous Voices
A living document speaks to living waters
This article originally published in the Catholic Sentinel is on the lasting impact of the 2001 "The Columbia River Watershed: Caring for Creation and the Common Good."
Attorney General’s Support Means Hope for the Future in Dark Times
Read this reflection by Dakota Case, Puyallup tribal member and Water Warrior, originally published by our friends at Native Daily Network on January 27, 2021.
Treaty rights demand bold action to save salmon
JoDe Gaudy, member of the Yakama Nation and former chairman of the Yakama Nation Tribal Council, and Don Sampson, member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Chief of the Walla Walla Tribe, and former chairman of the Umatilla General Council published this op-ed in the Tri-City Herald on January 25, 2021.
Why the Kalama methanol refinery would hurt the Yakama tribe
Crosscut published this op-ed by Yakama Nation member Emily Washines on December 31, 2020.
Time to fix broken rivers
Read this powerful op-ed by Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) tribal member Allen Pinkham Jr. published in the Wallowa County Chieftain.
Lummi members have new ally in fight to bring captive Southern Resident orca home
She will be home in 2020. That was the word from members of the Lummi Nation who have not given up on their efforts to free the captive Southern Resident orca some call "Lolita" from her cement tank at the Miami Seaquarium. A nonprofit law group has now joined the fight, bringing new legal tactics to the battle.