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Alan McConchie Feb 7, 2024

"Tribes 101: About the Native nations that share geography with Washington state"

Great article in the Salish Current explaining tribal sovereignty in #WashingtonState and the 50th anniversary of the Boldt Decision that upheld native treaty rights.

https://salish-current.org/2024/02/05/tribes-101-about-the-native-nations-that-share-geography-with-washington-state/

#Washington #CoastSalish #sovereignty #Lummi #Nooksack #Skagit #Swinomish #Samish #BellinghamWA

Tribes 101: About the Native nations that share geography with Washington state

In upholding treaties as part of the “supreme Law of the Land,” the Boldt Decision of 1974 reaffirmed treaty law and tribal sovereignty — concepts still not universally understood.

Salish Current

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Alan McConchie Nov 23, 2023

#HappyThanksgiving everyone in #BellinghamWA and in particular on our #SubduedSocial Mastodon instance. In recognition that we live on the ancestral lands of our neighbors the #Lummi, #Nooksack, and other #CoastSalish peoples, I made another voluntary #LandTax donation to the Lhaq'temish Foundation equivalent to 10% of our hosting costs and domain registration fees over the past 6 months.

https://nativegov.org/news/voluntary-land-taxes/ https://www.lhaqtemish.org/

#Thanksgiving #NativeLand #NativeAmericanHeritageDay

Voluntary Land Taxes - Native Governance Center

Voluntary Land Taxes This is the second article in our Beyond Land Acknowledgment series. Read our thoughts on Indigenous land acknowledgment and why we created this series here. After doing […]

Native Governance Center

ScraggleRock Oct 10, 2023

Today being #indigenouspeoplesday , I’ve been contemplating how the First Americans have been historically—and continue to be—dealt a shitty hand. Here in #whatcomcounty , the #Lummi nation is in an area that’s prone to flooding (and most certainly exacerbated by climate change). Why are indigenous American communities most affected by #climatechange ?

ScraggleRock Oct 9, 2023

“As Jefferson stood over her dead son, paramedics offered to call crisis outreach for her.

"I told them, 'I am crisis outreach. I respond to overdoses like this,'" Jefferson said. "As a crisis outreach person, you wouldn't expect to be trying to save your own child... our community is in such desperation right now.’” #Lummi #fentanyl #indigenouspeoplesday #humanrights

https://nativenewsonline.net/health/we-are-in-dark-times-reeling-from-four-overdose-deaths-in-four-days-lummi-nation-calls-for-urgent-action

‘We are in dark times’ | Reeling from Four Overdose Deaths in Four Days, Lummi Nation Calls for Urgent Action

Early last week, Evelyn Jefferson was hanging doses of Narcan — the life-saving opioid reversal drug — from trees in a homeless encampment in Bellingham, Washington, near the Lummi Nation.

Native News Online

Alan McConchie Sep 12, 2023

Beautiful #map of the #bathymetry of the #SanJuanIslands made by Gerry Gabrisch, GIS Manager at #LummiNation. Created completely with the #OpenSource software program #QGIS (@qgis).

#SalishSea #SanJuans #WashingtonState #Cascadia #PugetSound #GIS #Lummi #SanJuanIsland #OrcasIsland #VictoriaBC #maps #cartography

Original post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gerry-gabrisch-gisp-2aa3263b_linkedin-often-features-memes-that-mock-qgis-activity-7102411473771003904-b8A1

QGIS: an open-source GIS software for open-sourced data. | Gerry Gabrisch, GISP posted on the topic | LinkedIn

LinkedIn often features memes that mock QGIS but I find the software to be feature rich, fast, and intuitively easy to navigate. QGIS consumes open-sourced…

Howling Mad Creations Aug 20, 2023

Our newest bandanas, the Orca ones are of course my new favorite 😍

#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #PugetDog #LiveFree #Crabbing #Crab #Fishing #Lures #PetBandana #DogBandana #RIPTokitae #Tokitae #Orca #Lolita #HonorTokitae #WhidbeyIsland #PennCove #PugetSound #LummiNation #Lummi #WashingtonState #SkaliChelhtenaut #SalishSea #Miami #Seaquarium #OrcaWhale #KillerWhale

Howling Mad Creations Aug 19, 2023

We are here at By The Harbor Market in Oak Harbor, WA! We'll be here until 4pm. Murdock is wearing his Orca "Puget Dog" bandana in honor of Tokitae 💙

#ByTheHarborMarket #OakHarbor #GreatDane #Dogs #PugetDog #PetBandana #DogBandana #RIPTokitae #Tokitae #Orca #Lolita #HonorTokitae #WhidbeyIsland #PennCove #PugetSound #LummiNation #Lummi #WashingtonState #SkaliChelhtenaut #SalishSea #Miami #Seaquarium #OrcaWhale #KillerWhile

Howling Mad Creations Aug 19, 2023

We are here at By The Harbor Market in Oak Harbor, WA! We'll be here until 4pm. Murdock is wearing his Orca "Puget Dog" bandana in honor of Tokitae 💙

Howling Mad Creations Aug 19, 2023

R.I.P Tokitae 💙 no amount of words can express how heartbreaking and frustrating this is that she didn't make it back home to her family in the Puget Sound 💔

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/lolita-beloved-killer-whale-who-had-been-in-captivity-has-died-miami-seaquarium-says/

#RIPTokitae #Tokitae #Orca #Lolita #WhidbeyIsland #PennCove #PugetSound #LummiNation #Lummi #Seattle #PNW #WashingtonState #SkaliChelhtenaut #SalishSea #Miami #Seaquarium #OrcaWhale #KillerWhale

Lolita, beloved killer whale who had been in captivity, has died, Miami Seaquarium says

Lolita, the killer orca whale who has been in captivity for at least five decades, has died as officials were preparing to send her back to her home waters

CBS News

Alan McConchie Aug 18, 2023

"Lolita, the Miami Seaquarium orca, died Friday as hopes grew she would leave for the sea"

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article278388494.html

#Lolita #Tokitae #Seaquarium #BellinghamWA #LummiNation #Lummi #SalishSea #Orca #Miami #WashingtonState #Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut