Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️
Saving Luma
"The need to consult with tribes regarding trees is a surprise to many in government and real estate development who have internalized that Pacific Northwest tribes only need to be consulted on issues that directly affect salmon fisheries. This lack of awareness of tribal rights and connections to our forests is directly tied to colonial narratives used to justify... removing ... Indigenous people away from their forests, prairies and gathering areas,..." https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/speaking-up-for-our-peoples-culturally-modified-trees/
Speaking up for our people's culturally modified trees | Op-Ed

Culturally modified trees are those altered by Indigenous people, and beyond that value, they provide valuable canopy and support life above and below ground.

The Seattle Times
Sep 6, 2023 at 11:19pmWeb
Show threadAlice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Sep 6, 2023
Luma is a cedar tree in the Wedgewood neighborhood of Seattle. Included in the census of Salish culturally modified trees (CMT) in the Pacific Northwest. About 200 years old, when its life was threatened due to building developer action, people especially, including local indigenous community members, organized to save Luma. We need more elder trees in Seattle, #SeattleCouncil #BruceHarrell (#MayorOfSeattle), not more concrete.