World Water Day Blessings by Puyallup Tribal Member Robert Satiacum

Name: World Water Day Blessings by Puyallup Tribal Member Robert Satiacum
Start: 2024-03-22T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-03-22T12:30:00-07:00
Location: The Steh-Chass (Deschutes) River

March 22 @ 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Robert Satiacum, Puyallup Tribe, will lead two water blessings on Friday, World Water Day:

9:00 am – 10:30 am: The Steh-Chass (Deschutes) River (future estuary) location near the 5th Ave dam and fishway (park in the public parking lot south of 5th Ave, Olympia)
11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Billy Frank Jr Nisqually NWR, west of the of Visitor Center parking lot

You are invited to bring flowers, candles, special stones to decorate the alter, and your outdoor cup to share artesian well water, filtered for 5,000 years.

Will be a canopy as it’s likely to be drizzling.
It’s world WATER Day, after all.

World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. Every year, UN-Water — the UN’s coordination mechanism on water and sanitation — sets the theme for World Water Day. In 2023, the focus was on Accelerating Change.
In 2024, the theme will be Leveraging Water for Peace.

See past World Water Day Blessings here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eeggHYahTAPa03gDyPcXUtDBz93NLKmg/view

Details

Date:: March 22
Time:: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Categories:: Indigenous Voices/Tribal Solidarity, Multifaith Community, Multifaith Community Event, Multigenerational Community, Public Lands Events, Resources, Rivers and Salmon
Website:: https://learningrightrelations.org/

Venue

: The Steh-Chass (Deschutes) River
: Olympia, Washington

Organizer

: Learning Right Relations
: View Organizer Website

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.