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What: All Our Relations Snake River Campaign stop in Spokane, WA
When: September 27th, 6 to 8 pm
Where: Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 W 1st Ave, Spokane, WA 99201
Please join us as we raise our voices to support treaty rights in the Columbia River basin and the health of the Salish Sea bio-region by bearing witness to the urgency of breaching without further delay the Lower Snake River Dams.
Our elected officials have dallied and delayed long enough. This two-week, Indigenous-led campaign has been organized to offer you the opportunity at this critical time to stand up and make your voice heard for the salmon and the First Nations Salmon People, the Southern Resident Killer Whales, the Salish Sea, and all our relations into the Seventh Generation.
Agenda:
- 6:00 pm - Welcome & Round Drum Invocation
- 6:10 pm - Introductory Remarks
- 6:15 pm - Tribal Keynote
- 6:35 pm - A Call to Bear Witness: Our Passion for Sacred Waters (Bishop Gretchen Rehberg, Episcopal Diocese of Spokane)
- 6:45 pm - Creation Caring for Us – Sr. Patricia Millen, OSF, Justice and Peace Coordinator of the West, Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
- 6:50 pm - Caring for the Caretaking Waters
- Jay Julius, Lummi Tribal Member and President of Se’Si’Le
- Sequoyah Julius, Lummi Tribal Member and Se’Si’Le Co-Director
- 7:10 pm - Netse Mot: One Mind for All Our Relations (House of Tears Carvers of the Lummi Nation)
- 7:30 pm - Reconvene by the All Our Relations Art Piece for Ceremonial Smudging (Lummi Nation House of Tears) with Closing Round Drum
Reach out to William Rutt, wrutt@ipjc.org, with any questions!
Learn more about the All Our Relations Snake River Campaign here.