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This weekend, we participated in the final days of the two week long All Our Relations Snake River Campaign with a flotilla at Hells Gate State Park as well as an event in Seattle, Washington! 🐟✨🛶
Since the beginning of time, Native peoples have depended on their deep connection with the Snake River and its salmon, but dams along the river threaten our sacred salmon with extinction. The journey brought more grassroots political pressure to this urgent campaign by visiting communities along the Snake River.
We will continue to work towards dam removal as well as total free, prior, and informed consent regarding access to the Snake River.
Check out our Facebook page to rewatch the livestream from the final night.
📸: Megan C. Mack

“This is a step in the right direction,” said Shannon Wheeler, chair of the Nez Perce tribe, which is a party to the litigation and has long sought removal of dams on the Lower Snake to rebuild salmon runs.
In the recent order, President Biden cited a 1855 treaty that gives Tribes the right to fish freely in the Columbia and Snake rivers.
Read the full article at @seattletimes
Quick Note: we acknowledge that this is as Shannon Wheeler started, ‘a step in the right direction’. NOA will continue to advocate for FPIC, or free, prior, and informed consent regarding these rivers.

September 30th is known as Orange Shirt Day 🧡
This day is set aside so that we as Indigenous people can honor those who survived the trauma of boarding schools as well as remember those who never made it home.
We are proud of the work that @nabshc is leading, including the advocacy for the U.S. Truth & Healing Commission Bill, which will create a federal commission to investigate the harm caused by the U.S. Indian Boarding School Policy.
Please follow NABSHC to support their work. And take care of yourself, your family, and your community today.
#TruthJusticeHealing #IndianBoardingSchools
#S1723

pictures from the Olympia and Portland stops on the All Our Relations Snake River Campaign 🏞️💧✨
Tonight’s stop: Spokane!
📸: @megancmack
#AllOurRelations
#StopSalmonExtinction
#HealthyRiversHealthyFamilies
#SaveSalmon

We are currently on a journey with Tribal leaders and faith and environmental justice groups to bring attention and ask for immediate action to restore the Snake River to nurture salmon once again 🏞️💧✨
The All Our Relations Snake River Campaign will conclue after two-weeks this Sunday, October 1 in Seattle, Washington. We invite those in the area to come!
Can’t make it in person? Feel free to tune into our livestream via Facebook. 💻 Tap the link in our bio for more information and to RSVP for the virtual viewing!

This weekend was the beginning of the All Our Relations Snake River Campaign with the first stop in Olympia, WA ✨🏞️
This two week, Indigenous-led campaign is traveling through the Northwest to bring attention to the urgent need to remove the four lower Snake River dams as part of a comprehensive solution to restore salmon to abundance and uphold our nation’s promises to Northwest Tribes.
Tribal leaders, advocates, ceremony, and art pieces by A. Cyaltsa Finkbonner and Master Carver Jewell James will come together in different cities and communities to show what ‘All Our Relations’ represents.
Want to attend a stop on this journey? Tap the link in our bio to learn about the in person locations and get involved!
📸: Megan Mack
#AllOurRelations
#StopSalmonExtinction
#HealthyRiversHealthyFamilies
#SaveSalmon

Rivers are vital. They are our lifelines. 🏞️ That’s why the 4th Sunday of each September is set aside to honor them.
Currently, there are rivers at risk:
💧 Snake & Columbia Rivers: For millennia, salmon and the Snake and Columbia Rivers they call home sustained Indigenous peoples and cultures throughout the Northwest. Now, these habitats and the communities that rely are under threat.
We’ve just launched a journey along the Snake River to protect salmon and Tribes’ treaty rights. If you’re in the Washington, Oregon, and Idaho area: check to see if there is a stop near you! There is also a virtual option for our October 1 event.
💧 Kuskokwim River: A gold mine is currently in the works that would add mercury and arsenic into this river. People rely on subsistence fishing in the area, with salmon making up more than 50% of people’s annual diets, but the mine would destroy crucial salmon spawning habitats.
We are gathering names to support tribal sovereignty and environmental justice in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Tap the link in our bio to get involved.
#WorldRiverDay

Snake River salmon are running out of time. Without them, the communities on the river are too. That`s why we are joining the All Our Relations Snake River Campaign, which starts today.
We need a real solution that solves this problem with integrity:
✔️Upholds all commitments made to Tribal Nations
✔️Restores a free-flowing Snake River
✔️Replaces the energy, irrigation, and transportation services the existing dams provide
✔️Brings salmon, steelhead, & orca back to abundance
✔️Reintroduces salmon into the Upper Columbia River Basin
Make your voice heard! Join the All Our Relations Snake River Campaign at a stop near you.
Learn more about this campaign at the link in our bio.
#AllOurRelations
#StopSalmonExtinction
#HealthyRiversHealthyFamilies
#SaveSalmon

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