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An #Alberta judge quashed a petition seeking a referendum on Alberta independence that had more than 300,000 signatures. In two decisions issued Wednesday, Justice #ShainaLeonard found that there had been a failure to consider how separation would violate #treatyrights 🇨🇦 youtu.be/Lk9BseIi5FU?...
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An #Alberta judge quashed a petition seeking a referendum on Alberta independence that had more than 300,000 signatures. In two decisions issued Wednesday, Justice #ShainaLeonard found that there had been a failure to consider how separation would violate #treatyrights 🇨🇦 youtu.be/Lk9BseIi5FU?...
Why an Alberta judge threw out... -
An #Alberta judge quashed a petition seeking a referendum on Alberta independence that had more than 300,000 signatures. In two decisions issued Wednesday, Justice #ShainaLeonard found that there had been a failure to consider how separation would violate #treatyrights 🇨🇦 youtu.be/Lk9BseIi5FU?...
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An #Alberta Court of King’s Bench justice has quashed #ElectionsAlberta’s approval of a petition seeking a #referendum on Alberta independence from #separatist group Stay Free Alberta.
#abpoli #TreatyRights
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/judge-quashes-decision-to-approve-separation-petition-9.7198553 -
An #Alberta Court of King’s Bench justice has quashed #ElectionsAlberta’s approval of a petition seeking a #referendum on Alberta independence from #separatist group Stay Free Alberta.
#abpoli #TreatyRights
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/judge-quashes-decision-to-approve-separation-petition-9.7198553 -
An #Alberta Court of King’s Bench justice has quashed #ElectionsAlberta’s approval of a petition seeking a #referendum on Alberta independence from #separatist group Stay Free Alberta.
#abpoli #TreatyRights
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/judge-quashes-decision-to-approve-separation-petition-9.7198553 -
An #Alberta Court of King’s Bench justice has quashed #ElectionsAlberta’s approval of a petition seeking a #referendum on Alberta independence from #separatist group Stay Free Alberta.
#abpoli #TreatyRights
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/judge-quashes-decision-to-approve-separation-petition-9.7198553 -
An #Alberta Court of King’s Bench justice has quashed #ElectionsAlberta’s approval of a petition seeking a #referendum on Alberta independence from #separatist group Stay Free Alberta.
#abpoli #TreatyRights
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/judge-quashes-decision-to-approve-separation-petition-9.7198553 -
First Nations raise concerns as Métis self-government treaty advances in Parliament
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Treaty 4 raises hard questions like how did ‘Crown land’ come to be?
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Saskatchewan #Canada #Treaty4 #Treaties #IndigenousRights #CrownLand #Politics #Colonialism #CanadianHistory #Reconciliation #LandRights #TreatyRights
https://the-14.com/treaty-4-raises-hard-questions-like-how-did-crown-land-come-to-be/ -
Treaty 4 raises hard questions like how did ‘Crown land’ come to be?
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Saskatchewan #Canada #Treaty4 #Treaties #IndigenousRights #CrownLand #Politics #Colonialism #CanadianHistory #Reconciliation #LandRights #TreatyRights
https://the-14.com/treaty-4-raises-hard-questions-like-how-did-crown-land-come-to-be/ -
Treaty 4 raises hard questions like how did ‘Crown land’ come to be?
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Saskatchewan #Canada #Treaty4 #Treaties #IndigenousRights #CrownLand #Politics #Colonialism #CanadianHistory #Reconciliation #LandRights #TreatyRights
https://the-14.com/treaty-4-raises-hard-questions-like-how-did-crown-land-come-to-be/ -
Treaty 4 raises hard questions like how did ‘Crown land’ come to be?
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Saskatchewan #Canada #Treaty4 #Treaties #IndigenousRights #CrownLand #Politics #Colonialism #CanadianHistory #Reconciliation #LandRights #TreatyRights
https://the-14.com/treaty-4-raises-hard-questions-like-how-did-crown-land-come-to-be/ -
Treaty 4 raises hard questions like how did ‘Crown land’ come to be?
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Saskatchewan #Canada #Treaty4 #Treaties #IndigenousRights #CrownLand #Politics #Colonialism #CanadianHistory #Reconciliation #LandRights #TreatyRights
https://the-14.com/treaty-4-raises-hard-questions-like-how-did-crown-land-come-to-be/ -
It took over 22 years, but it is really worth it to see the degraded land and watersheds begin to recover. There's still a lot of work ahead, but this project shows that we can return these dammed and sick river systems back to a healthier state: https://youtu.be/NTTmrdheoYc?feature=shared
Similar success with dam removals has been had on the Elwha River in Washington State.
#KlamathBasin #DamRemoval #TreatyRights #ProtectWatersheds #Salmon #Oregon #California
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It took over 22 years, but it is really worth it to see the degraded land and watersheds begin to recover. There's still a lot of work ahead, but this project shows that we can return these dammed and sick river systems back to a healthier state: https://youtu.be/NTTmrdheoYc?feature=shared
Similar success with dam removals has been had on the Elwha River in Washington State.
#KlamathBasin #DamRemoval #TreatyRights #ProtectWatersheds #Salmon #Oregon #California
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It took over 22 years, but it is really worth it to see the degraded land and watersheds begin to recover. There's still a lot of work ahead, but this project shows that we can return these dammed and sick river systems back to a healthier state: https://youtu.be/NTTmrdheoYc?feature=shared
Similar success with dam removals has been had on the Elwha River in Washington State.
#KlamathBasin #DamRemoval #TreatyRights #ProtectWatersheds #Salmon #Oregon #California
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It took over 22 years, but it is really worth it to see the degraded land and watersheds begin to recover. There's still a lot of work ahead, but this project shows that we can return these dammed and sick river systems back to a healthier state: https://youtu.be/NTTmrdheoYc?feature=shared
Similar success with dam removals has been had on the Elwha River in Washington State.
#KlamathBasin #DamRemoval #TreatyRights #ProtectWatersheds #Salmon #Oregon #California
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It took over 22 years, but it is really worth it to see the degraded land and watersheds begin to recover. There's still a lot of work ahead, but this project shows that we can return these dammed and sick river systems back to a healthier state: https://youtu.be/NTTmrdheoYc?feature=shared
Similar success with dam removals has been had on the Elwha River in Washington State.
#KlamathBasin #DamRemoval #TreatyRights #ProtectWatersheds #Salmon #Oregon #California
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'Fed up' Mi’kmaw allies to stand shoulder to shoulder for treaty rights rally Saturday
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #MiKmaq #Halifax #NovaScotia #Canada #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #EnvironmentalJustice #LandDefenders #FedUp
#ClimateAction #The14
https://the-14.com/fed-up-mikmaw-allies-to-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder-for-treaty-rights-rally-saturday/ -
'Fed up' Mi’kmaw allies to stand shoulder to shoulder for treaty rights rally Saturday
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #MiKmaq #Halifax #NovaScotia #Canada #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #EnvironmentalJustice #LandDefenders #FedUp
#ClimateAction #The14
https://the-14.com/fed-up-mikmaw-allies-to-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder-for-treaty-rights-rally-saturday/ -
'Fed up' Mi’kmaw allies to stand shoulder to shoulder for treaty rights rally Saturday
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #MiKmaq #Halifax #NovaScotia #Canada #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #EnvironmentalJustice #LandDefenders #FedUp
#ClimateAction #The14
https://the-14.com/fed-up-mikmaw-allies-to-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder-for-treaty-rights-rally-saturday/ -
'Fed up' Mi’kmaw allies to stand shoulder to shoulder for treaty rights rally Saturday
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #MiKmaq #Halifax #NovaScotia #Canada #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #EnvironmentalJustice #LandDefenders #FedUp
#ClimateAction #The14
https://the-14.com/fed-up-mikmaw-allies-to-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder-for-treaty-rights-rally-saturday/ -
'Fed up' Mi’kmaw allies to stand shoulder to shoulder for treaty rights rally Saturday
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #MiKmaq #Halifax #NovaScotia #Canada #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #EnvironmentalJustice #LandDefenders #FedUp
#ClimateAction #The14
https://the-14.com/fed-up-mikmaw-allies-to-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder-for-treaty-rights-rally-saturday/ -
"I wonder how long it will be before they [the government of the day] go apeshit and use it to open another front in their racist hate campaign against Māori? And will ACT, who back in 2003 claimed to be the "party of property rights" and opposed retrospective expropriation, support or oppose a racist law change?"
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/08/foreshore-and-seabed-30.html
*Exactly* what I've been wondering, get out my head! : P
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"I wonder how long it will be before they [the government of the day] go apeshit and use it to open another front in their racist hate campaign against Māori? And will ACT, who back in 2003 claimed to be the "party of property rights" and opposed retrospective expropriation, support or oppose a racist law change?"
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/08/foreshore-and-seabed-30.html
*Exactly* what I've been wondering, get out my head! : P
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"I wonder how long it will be before they [the government of the day] go apeshit and use it to open another front in their racist hate campaign against Māori? And will ACT, who back in 2003 claimed to be the "party of property rights" and opposed retrospective expropriation, support or oppose a racist law change?"
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/08/foreshore-and-seabed-30.html
*Exactly* what I've been wondering, get out my head! : P
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"I wonder how long it will be before they [the government of the day] go apeshit and use it to open another front in their racist hate campaign against Māori? And will ACT, who back in 2003 claimed to be the "party of property rights" and opposed retrospective expropriation, support or oppose a racist law change?"
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/08/foreshore-and-seabed-30.html
*Exactly* what I've been wondering, get out my head! : P
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What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?
Monday, July 14, 2025
By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan"By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.
"Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.
"The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'
"The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.
"Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members."The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.
"Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'
"Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.
CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory
"The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
"The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.
"As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'
"So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?
"Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."
#WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail
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What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?
Monday, July 14, 2025
By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan"By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.
"Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.
"The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'
"The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.
"Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members."The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.
"Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'
"Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.
CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory
"The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
"The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.
"As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'
"So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?
"Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."
#WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail
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What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?
Monday, July 14, 2025
By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan"By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.
"Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.
"The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'
"The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.
"Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members."The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.
"Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'
"Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.
CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory
"The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
"The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.
"As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'
"So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?
"Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."
#WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail
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What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?
Monday, July 14, 2025
By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan"By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.
"Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.
"The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'
"The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.
"Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members."The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.
"Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'
"Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.
CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory
"The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
"The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.
"As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'
"So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?
"Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."
#WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail
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What good are #TreatyRights if the fish are poisoned?
Monday, July 14, 2025
By George Ochenski, Daily Montanan"By virtually any measure, the #ConfederatedSalishKootenai Tribal Nation is an incredible success story against all odds. Forcibly removed from their homeland in the Bitterroot Valley, despite not having waged war against the white settlers or army, their own '#TrailOfTears' brought them to the Flathead Valley to live within the boundaries of the vastly reduced lands they retained in the #HellgateTreatyOf1855.
"Although the #HellgateTreaty is widely regarded as one of the best treaties signed by any of the nation’s #IndigenousPeople, even land supposedly reserved for the exclusive habitation of the #SalishKootenai was opened to purchase by non-tribal #settlers by the #DawesAct of 1887.
"The act’s intentions were to allocate reservation lands the tribes already owned to individual families as private property and, as part of the 'civilization' of #NativeAmericans, it required tribal members to register with the federal government to receive their 'allotment.'
"The entire debacle was part of the #AllotmentAndAssimilationEra from 1887 to 1934. Simply put, the federal government’s plan was to force Native Americans to be 'assimilated' into #EuropeanAmerican culture.
"Importantly, any reservation lands not allocated to tribal members was deemed
'surplus' land and opened to purchase by non-tribal settlers. This excursion into #ReservationLands was further exacerbated by the ability of tribal members to sell their allotment parcels to non-tribal members."The fracturing of the Salish-Kootenai’s tribal lands through sales to non-tribal members continues to cause serious problems today, including the long and on-going battle to retain their #water, #hunting and #fishing #TreatyRights.
"Article III of the Hellgate Treaty could not be more clear regarding the Tribe’s fishing rights: 'The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams running through or bordering said reservation is further secured to said Indians; as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places…'
"Yet, just last month the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribal Nation issued a very serious warning to tribal members regarding the fish they have treaty rights to catch because they are poisoned.
CSKT Fish Consumption Advisory
"The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes issued a fish consumption advisory on June 24, 2025, warning tribal citizens not to eat fish due to the presence of Polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs), #dioxins and #furans at levels deemed unsafe for humans: Source: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
"The #FishConsumptionAdvisory urges 'all tribal members to avoid consuming all species and sizes of fish harvested from the lower Clark Fork River from the Bitterroot River near Missoula to the Flathead River near Paradise. Recent testing has confirmed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans in fish at levels that are unsafe for consumption by Tribal peoples. It is also advisable to avoid consuming rainbow trout and northern pike harvested from the Bitterroot River and the upper Clark Fork River above the Bitterroot River to Rock Creek, and, to avoid consuming rainbow trout from the Blackfoot River.
"As the Advisory explains: 'These contaminants pose a health risk to all fish consumers, and an even greater health risk to the most sensitive members of the Tribal population including women of child bearing age, pregnant nursing women, and young children. These contaminants have been linked to negative health effects in the immune, and nervous systems and may be associated with birth defects…PCBs and dioxins are classified as probable and definite #HumanCarcinogens, respectively.'
"So what good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned? Are they really 'rights' — or is this just another in our nation’s long and shameful history of abrogating its treaties with Native Americans?
"Moreover, #Montana’s poison fish affect us all. Just as our government has failed the Salish-Kootenai, they have likewise failed to uphold our rights to the 'swimmable/fishable waters' guaranteed by the #CleanWaterAct — because no one, tribal or non-tribal, is immune to poisoned fish."
#WaterIsLife #TribalNations #NativeAmericanNews #WaterPollution #PoisonedFish #StolenLand #LandBack #EPAFail
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"Service to the country you love often means telling that country when it is absolutely wrong.
And telling it again.
And again.
And again."
"We are all called to do the small right things. To be brave enough to know what the right thing is, and to do it, day after day, against the tide, against colonization and toward freedom."
-- @emmettoconnell
https://olympiatime.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=tnp&na=v&nk=31-fcdaa3374b&id=26#FourthOfJuly #BoldtDecision #TreatyRights #Salmon #Indigenous #freedom #justice
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"Service to the country you love often means telling that country when it is absolutely wrong.
And telling it again.
And again.
And again."
"We are all called to do the small right things. To be brave enough to know what the right thing is, and to do it, day after day, against the tide, against colonization and toward freedom."
-- @emmettoconnell
https://olympiatime.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=tnp&na=v&nk=31-fcdaa3374b&id=26#FourthOfJuly #BoldtDecision #TreatyRights #Salmon #Indigenous #freedom #justice
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"Service to the country you love often means telling that country when it is absolutely wrong.
And telling it again.
And again.
And again."
"We are all called to do the small right things. To be brave enough to know what the right thing is, and to do it, day after day, against the tide, against colonization and toward freedom."
-- @emmettoconnell
https://olympiatime.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=tnp&na=v&nk=31-fcdaa3374b&id=26#FourthOfJuly #BoldtDecision #TreatyRights #Salmon #Indigenous #freedom #justice
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"Service to the country you love often means telling that country when it is absolutely wrong.
And telling it again.
And again.
And again."
"We are all called to do the small right things. To be brave enough to know what the right thing is, and to do it, day after day, against the tide, against colonization and toward freedom."
-- @emmettoconnell
https://olympiatime.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=tnp&na=v&nk=31-fcdaa3374b&id=26#FourthOfJuly #BoldtDecision #TreatyRights #Salmon #Indigenous #freedom #justice
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"Service to the country you love often means telling that country when it is absolutely wrong.
And telling it again.
And again.
And again."
"We are all called to do the small right things. To be brave enough to know what the right thing is, and to do it, day after day, against the tide, against colonization and toward freedom."
-- @emmettoconnell
https://olympiatime.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=tnp&na=v&nk=31-fcdaa3374b&id=26#FourthOfJuly #BoldtDecision #TreatyRights #Salmon #Indigenous #freedom #justice
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How the UCP is reframing Alberta’s separatist gambit
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #IndigenousGovernance #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #Alberta #UCP #Canada #DanielleSmith #Federalism #Bill54 #Separatism #Sovereignty #Referendum #WesternAlienation
https://the-14.com/how-the-ucp-is-reframing-albertas-separatist-gambit/ -
How the UCP is reframing Alberta’s separatist gambit
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #IndigenousGovernance #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #Alberta #UCP #Canada #DanielleSmith #Federalism #Bill54 #Separatism #Sovereignty #Referendum #WesternAlienation
https://the-14.com/how-the-ucp-is-reframing-albertas-separatist-gambit/ -
How the UCP is reframing Alberta’s separatist gambit
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #IndigenousGovernance #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #Alberta #UCP #Canada #DanielleSmith #Federalism #Bill54 #Separatism #Sovereignty #Referendum #WesternAlienation
https://the-14.com/how-the-ucp-is-reframing-albertas-separatist-gambit/ -
How the UCP is reframing Alberta’s separatist gambit
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #IndigenousGovernance #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #Alberta #UCP #Canada #DanielleSmith #Federalism #Bill54 #Separatism #Sovereignty #Referendum #WesternAlienation
https://the-14.com/how-the-ucp-is-reframing-albertas-separatist-gambit/ -
I am glad he has corrected himself, and now he must not repeat the mistake.
"Ford apologizes for saying First Nations 'keep coming hat in hand' amid Bill 5 controversy:
Anishinabek Nation Grand Council chief says Ontario premier has 'owned what he said' and 'corrected himself' "
#canada #firstnations #bill5 #indigenous #treatyrights #ontario #canpol #onpoli #canpoli #indigenousrights #onpol #fasttrackapprovals #minerals #anishinaabe #dougford #RingOfFireDevelopment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-first-nations-apology-1.7566080
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I am glad he has corrected himself, and now he must not repeat the mistake.
"Ford apologizes for saying First Nations 'keep coming hat in hand' amid Bill 5 controversy:
Anishinabek Nation Grand Council chief says Ontario premier has 'owned what he said' and 'corrected himself' "
#canada #firstnations #bill5 #indigenous #treatyrights #ontario #canpol #onpoli #canpoli #indigenousrights #onpol #fasttrackapprovals #minerals #anishinaabe #dougford #RingOfFireDevelopment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-first-nations-apology-1.7566080
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I am glad he has corrected himself, and now he must not repeat the mistake.
"Ford apologizes for saying First Nations 'keep coming hat in hand' amid Bill 5 controversy:
Anishinabek Nation Grand Council chief says Ontario premier has 'owned what he said' and 'corrected himself' "
#canada #firstnations #bill5 #indigenous #treatyrights #ontario #canpol #onpoli #canpoli #indigenousrights #onpol #fasttrackapprovals #minerals #anishinaabe #dougford #RingOfFireDevelopment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-first-nations-apology-1.7566080