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Coast #Salish #FreedomFighters: From Alberta #TarSands to the #SalishSea

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews Nov. 7, 2024

SEATTLE -- "The dead birds floating in the #AlbertATarSands #TailingPonds, the #ManCamps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased #OilTankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil of the #TransMountainPipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands, bound for oil tankers in the Salish Sea.

"'We are not just #activists, we are #revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years,' said #KanahusManuel, #Secwepemc and #Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain pipeline.

"Speaking at the State of Emergency for The Salish Sea in #SeattleWashington on Thursday, Kanahus said, 'We are the title holders to the land.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/coast-salish-freedom-fighters-from.html

#LandBack #DefendTheSacred #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #Resistance #MotherEarth #PacificNorthwest

Of all the places the BCNDP government can dump #carcinogenic torn-up #asphalt, they are choosing to dump it on the Reserves of the #Neskonlith Band.

Open letter regarding this heinous plan:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_dy2NAaQEZHkBNxAAjWCVRG4PllX7ZvOduVI7UhzVp0/edit?usp=sharing

#secwepemc #shuswap #Indigenouspeoples

Stitched panorama of #Crowfoot #Glacier and Crowfoot #Mountain, near #BowLake, #Alberta, #Canada. #Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc.

Near #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada (#Sinixt, #Secwépemc, #Syilx, #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org.)

Reminders of #Canada ’s #shameful treatment of #IndigenousPeoples were constant as Marie Clements shot parts of her sweeping #drama “Bones of Crows” at former residential school, where hundreds of suspected graves were discovered two years ago.
The #writer #director says fictional scenes depicting #abuse at a #ResidentialSchool were shot at the #KamloopsBC facility where the #Tkemlups te #Secwepemc #FirstNation said it had found 215 suspected #UnmarkedGraves in May 2021.

https://www.saanichnews.com/news/residential-school-drama-bones-of-crows-explores-ongoing-legacy-of-trauma

Webstad said the society is also now having to police the use of the phrase #EveryChildMatters . In February 2022 it was adopted #WithoutConsent by organizers of the #FreedomConvoy - which in turn was #denounced by Webstad & the Northern #Secwépemc te #Qelmucw #Chiefs .
Now, at age 55, Webstad says she dreams of the day she will be free of her own story. She wants to complete her work and then live a life that doesn’t require her to be a public figure.

https://www.similkameenspotlight.com/news/im-still-not-comfortable-with-it-orange-shirt-day-founder-reflects-on-decade-of-reconciliation-work

#Indigenous

#Tkemlúps #Secwépemc #FirstNation will receive $12.5 million in #FederalFunding toward the construction of a new #HealingCentre for the community, nearly two years after suspected grave sites were discovered at a former #ResidentialSchool - leaders have announced.
A #JointStatement Thursday said the new healing house will provide #TraumaInformed programs to help the community spiritually, mentally, emotionally & physically.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6788360

#Indigenous #EveryChildMatters #BritishColumbia