The Bog Witch πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Dec 11
#fraservalley #bcflood All highways in/out of Lower Mainland to the Interior are closed. #Nooksack flood waters expected to reach BC/WA border in a few hours. #Abbotsford folx in #SumasPrairie areas being evac'd. This feels like a more informed version of #2021 flood nightmare all over again.
Alan McConchieFeb 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 β€œsupreme Law of the Land,” the Boldt Decision of 1974 reaffirmed treaty law and tribal sovereignty β€” concepts still not universally understood.

Salish Current
Kevin FreitasDec 24, 2023
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Seattle #SpaceNeedle #HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #WestSeattle #Nooksack #MtBaker
Show threadAlan McConchieNov 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
BC Info BotOct 20, 2023
Global News BC: B.C., Washington finalize cross-border flood-risk agreement https://globalnews.ca/news/10039665/bc-washington-nooksack-flood-agreement/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Environment #Disaster #nooksack #Weather #BCFlood #Flood
B.C., Washington finalize cross-border flood-risk agreement

The British Columbia government says it has finalized an agreement with Washington state and several First Nations to work together on flood-risk mitigation and salmon habitat restoration for the Nooksak and Sumas watersheds on the Canada-U. S. border.

Global News
Show threadAlan McConchieJan 22, 2023
Want to learn more about the #PointElliottTreaty here in #Whatcom County? Check out this great video from the #Ferndale, WA public school district, which has observed #TreatyDay since 2020: https://youtu.be/AVCo2Mp2di0
#Lummi #Nooksack #CoastSalish
Ferndale Schools - Inaugural Treaty Day Recognition, 2020

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Alan McConchieJan 22, 2023
It's Treaty Day here in #BellinghamWA (home of subdued.social), where we recall the January 22, 1855 treaty between the United States and the native nations such as the #Lummi and #Nooksack who have lived on these lands since time immemorial. It's an important day to educate yourself about the Point Elliott Treaty and our continuing obligations to each other and to this land. It was this treaty that made the existence of #WhatcomCounty and #WashingtonState possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Point_Elliott #pnw
Treaty of Point Elliott - Wikipedia

Phil WolffJan 12, 2023

I live in #BellinghamWA where the local state college, Western Washington University, still holds 89 sets of #Indigenous people’s remains. @mitty of the local #Bellingham Herald dug deeper on this story broken by @ProPublica. Go Vikings! #WWU #repatriation #Whatcom #Skagit #Lummi #Nooksack #Swinomish

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article271077067.html

StormcrowDec 3, 2022
Cold and breezy up in the NW corner of the #PNW but thankfully no #snow. Granite construction spent yesterday logging the last of the #forest across the road. When the sun rises today we'll get a look at the carnage. It's been incredibly traumatic seeing all the wildlife and old growth trees scraped off the earth to profit orcs. Bureau of Indian Affairs sold them looting rights, against the wishes of the #Nooksack tribe whose land it is.
StormcrowDec 2, 2022
I have wished harm and death on men destroying the forest across the road from my farm. Murdering all the living beings who could not escape and the food and shelter of countless other living beings. They have been murdering for days, turning #oldgrowth cedars into board feet and sawdust. Wildlife are displaced and hungry and it's the middle of winter. Ironically, they were granted looting rights by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, against the wishes of the #Nooksack tribe whose land it is.