Our Projects 

Canoe Journey Support

Learning Right Relations has aided local Tribes hosting Canoe Journeys through volunteering before and during the event, fundraising and contributing blankets designed by Native artists for giveaways. See the pages for this year’s 2026 Paddle to Nisqually.

Acknowledgement of Tribal Presence

Learning Right Relations members worked with the Squaxin Island Tribe to create a formal acknowledgment and corresponding maps of Tribal lands in the Olympia area. LRR continues to work with others to develop acknowledgement processes that integrate the wishes of area tribes and are worded to promote living in right relations.

Since Time Immemorial

The Since Time Immemorial (STI) work group works to ensure that this exciting curriculum on Tribal Sovereignty, mandated since 2015 by Governor Inslee, is being taught in K-12 schools across Washington State. Legislation has been updated to fund State support for teacher training, and otherwise encourage school districts to include these recently developed parts of public curriculum.

Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery

Learning Right Relations members are advocating for the reversal of the damaging 15th Century papal decrees, which promoted the colonization and exploitation of non-Christian land and the resulting oppression and genocide of Indigenous peoples. Our loaning library has many of the books on this and related subjects written by Native authors. We recommend everyone wishing to live in right relationship with people from other cultures remain open to learning more.

Global Days of Listening

Global Days of Listening, a national chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA, emerged in 2011, from a relationship with young Afghan adults of Kabul, Afghanistan. Monthly Gatherings were held internationally on the 21st of each month via the internet until the middle of August, 2021. GDoL’s annual celebration of the International Day of Peace brought together Native people of the Salish Sea with the general nonnative population beginning in 2010 from which Learning Right Relations developed as program in 2015.