August 22, 2019 Newsletter
We hope everyone is enjoying the summertime! Stay tuned to this newsletter and our website, www.learningrightrelations.org, for announcements on upcoming Gatherings and excursions.
Read further for upcoming events and related news:
Last Showing at Olympia Film Society:
INDIAN HORSE
Saturday August 24th 6:30pm
This moving and important drama sheds light on the dark history of Canada's boarding schools, or Indigenous Residential Schools and the indomitable spirit of aboriginal people. Click here to watch trailer and learn more about this movie.
Public Hearing on PSE LNG Gas Refinery/Liquefaction
Tuesday, August 27th 2 - 10pm
Rialto Theater
310 S 9th St, Tacoma WA 98402
There will be two hearings, from 2 - 5pm and from 6:30-10pm. Click here for facebook event site.
Ancestral Waters - Free Documentary Screening
Tuesday, August 27th 5 - 6:30pm
Urban Grace, The Downtown Church
902 Market St, Tacoma WA 98402
Join Native Daily Network, along with environmental & social justice groups, in hosting a free screening of the recently released documentary "Ancestral Waters", which chronicles the Puyallup Tribe and Water Warriors' movement to resist the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility currently being built without proper permits on the Tribe's ancestral tideflats in violation of the Medicine Creek Treaty.
Click here for facebook event site.
Tommy Orange
LIVE @ The Washington Center for the Performing Arts
Sunday, September 22nd 6:30 - 8:30pm
Tommy Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, and was born and raised in Oakland, California. His novel, There There, follows twelve characters from Native communities, all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American - grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic, There There is at once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, utterly contemporary and unforgettable.
Click here for event website.
IN THE NEWS: Paddle to Lummi
"Canoe Journey generation youth are fulfilling the dream of its Seattle founder" Richard Walker, Indian Country Today, July 28th, 2019
"Journey of healing, revival" Front page article by Crystal Paul, The Seattle Times, Aug. 11, 2019 - This article talks about the growth of the Tribal Canoe Journey from its origins 30 years ago. The article also highlights the story of the Willapa Spirit, a cedar canoe carved in 2009 to honor Emmett Oliver, a Quinault elder and the founder of the 1989 Paddle to Seattle, the event that ultimately sparked the revival of Coast Salish canoe culture. Ken Workman, a former Duwamish tribal council member and a descendant of Chief Sealth, known as Chief Seattle, explains near the end of the article how canoes carry the spirits of the ancestors.
"Tribes unite for annual canoe journey at Paddle to Lummi," Laura Place and Eric Trent, Lynden Tribune, July 31, 2019
CONNECTIONS:
"Empowering women and indigenous peoples" will help us more effectively combat climate change says UN report Alexandra Jacobo, Nation of Change, August 12, 2019
Click here to watch A Healing Journey, a short film coproduced by Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment and Earthjustice, which tells the story of how traditional canoe building was revived on the Nez Perce Reservation for the first time in over 100 years. This effort is tied to a growing movement to restore a free-flowing lower Snake River.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's latest book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, is essential reading in the wake of recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Dunbar-Ortiz gets to the roots of America's gun obsession and the Second Amendment, examining the history of genocide, theft of land, and slavery. Click here to read an interview of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: "The Second Amendment is Almost a Time Bomb That Was Planted in the Constitution"
For those who supported the Paddle to Lummi Blanket Project, if you have not already picked up your blanket, please do so at your earliest convenience:
Olympia area pick-up:
New Traditions (store side)
300 5th Ave SW
Olympia, WA 98501
Pick up between 11am and 6pm, and be sure to have your name marked off of our master list.
Bellingham area pick-up:
Please email Jean LaValley at Ajeanlavalley@yahoo.com to coordinate a time for you to pick up your blanket.
If these pick-up locations are not convenient for you, we will be arranging for blankets to be mailed or delivered to those out of the area. Email your mailing address to us at learningrightrelations@gmail.com
You can also watch for updates on our website, https://learningrightrelations.org/canoe-journey-support for more details on this project.
Feel free to email learningrightrelations@gmail.com with any questions!