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 pano of White Pyramid Mountain reflected in Waterfowl Lake, Icefields Parkway, Alberta, Canada (#Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc)

#WhitePyramid #WaterfowlLake #IcefieldsParkway #Alberta #Canada

'This is our Vatican': British Columbia Trans Mountain expanded oil and gas pipeline route change will 'desecrate' sacred site: Secwépemc knowledge keeper

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/this-is-our-vatican-trans-mountain-route-change-will-desecrate-sacred-site-secwepemc-knowledge-keeper-7658614

#Secwépemc #TransMountain #pipeline #expansion #sacred #violation #reconciliation #colonialism #PetroState #cdnpoli #bcpoli #laws

This is what the current situation is here with the fires. Air quality is off the charts, multiple communities in the interior are on evacuation orders and alerts.

#Squilax has been partially burned down (there's been mixed reports and gossip, but as of this morning the band office, and #Quaaout lodge still standing, but the gas station and some homes burnt down). There's been an extreme lag with news and updates about the #Shuswap area, as the focus has been on #Kelowna, and evacuation orders for reserves weren't posted on the #BCWildfire map until up to half a day later.

Many other #Secwepemc reserves are on evacuation orders, and while #ChaseBC is on alert, it's surrounded by orders and road closures. People are stealing and moving firefighting equipment, including the sprinklers protecting the few bridges in and out of communities.

I can't keep up with everything right now.