Category Archives: Indigenous

COVID-19 and Wet'suwet'en

#covid_19 #MotherNature #takecare #AnotherWorldisPossible #ProtectTheSacred This is the perfect time to enact the reprieve we have received on pollution and climate destruction. There is Beautiful evidence of a fossil free world exemplified in China who could finally see blue sky or the canals in … Continue reading

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Quaker Indian Residential/Boarding Schools

For the past five or six years I’ve searched for and found opportunities to be engaged with and learn from Indigenous peoples. This grew out of working together to bring attention to the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) in Indianapolis, beginning … Continue reading

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Once the World Was Perfect

Once the World Was Perfect Once the world was perfect, and we were happy in that world.Then we took it for granted.Discontent began a small rumble in the earthly mind.Then Doubt pushed through with its spiked head.And once Doubt ruptured … Continue reading

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Solidarity in a pandemic. Digital week of action.

Solidarity in a pandemic We see you out you there participating in mutual aid and keeping your communities, your Elders and your immunocompromised loved ones fed and safe. We know that we cannot rely on the state to keep us safe. … Continue reading

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Sacred, Holy Beings

One thing I’ve learned from these years of writing is I never know what I’m going to say when I center myself before the computer. I’ve heard people say they could not not do…. I can not not write. It … Continue reading

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Affirmation of traditional territories

Wet’suwet’en Access Point on Gidimt’en Territory March 14 at 5:09 PM ·  The Wet’suwet’en started the preliminary work on the affirmation of our traditional territories, in 1974 – for Delgamuukw & Gisday’wa v the Queen. 23 years later, the Supreme Court … Continue reading

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Lands, colonialism and disasters

These are perilous times for many reasons. The health and economic dangers of the coronavirus pandemic have upended our societies and our lives. As the message below from Sovereign Likhts’amisyu warns, “during disasters, colonial and imperialist states use the chaos … Continue reading

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International Solidarity Actions. NO PIPELINES! CALL TO ACTION!

Although several of us were able to attend the vigil in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en last month, we decided not to get together today in support of the International Solidarity Actions as a precaution related to the spread of coronavirus. … Continue reading

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Unist’ot’en Solidarity Brigade Action Update 3/12/2020

Much has happened this week as actions have continued through the week supporting the demands of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary chiefs that Coastal GasLink and RCMP leave the territory and people are gearing up to mobilize further. The callout for solidarity … Continue reading

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Canada and U.S. – Banks, Corporations and Railroads

The following stories show the variety of ways being used to try to stop fossil fuel projects in both the U.S. and Canada. A federal appeals court affirmed on Wednesday a lower court ruling that held it could order a … Continue reading

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