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Category: Indigenous Voices

Dam Continues Status Quo That Created Salmon Crisis

by admin03/05/202109/18/2022

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.

Chehalis River Dam News, Indigenous Voices, News, Rivers and Salmon News

A living document speaks to living waters

by admin02/08/202107/21/2021

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."

Faith Voices for Indigenous Solidarity, News, Rivers and Salmon News

Attorney General’s Support Means Hope for the Future in Dark Times

by admin01/27/202103/19/2021

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.

Fossil Fuels News, Fracked Gas News, Indigenous Voices, Tacoma LNG News

Treaty rights demand bold action to save salmon

by admin01/25/202104/15/2021

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.

Indigenous Voices, Rivers and Salmon News, Snake River Salmon News

Why the Kalama methanol refinery would hurt the Yakama tribe

by admin12/31/202004/15/2021

Crosscut published this op-ed by Yakama Nation member Emily Washines on December 31, 2020.

Fossil Fuels News, Fracked Gas News, Indigenous Voices

Time to fix broken rivers

by admin12/09/202003/19/2021

Read this powerful op-ed by Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) tribal member Allen Pinkham Jr. published in the Wallowa County Chieftain.

Indigenous Voices, Rivers and Salmon News, Snake River Salmon News

Lummi members have new ally in fight to bring captive Southern Resident orca home

by admin06/11/202007/02/2021

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.

Indigenous Voices, News, Rivers and Salmon News

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Earth Ministry/WAIPL works within the unceded territories of Northwest Native nations. Our office is on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People past and present. Land acknowledgement is one way to resist erasure of Indigenous histories as well as to honor tribes and the land itself.

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