Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

November 15, 2024

Live from The Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle Day 1





Live From the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle

Watch Day 1 video by Govinda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp2VHfE_pq8

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 6, 2024
updated 

SEATTLE -- The Salish Sea Assembly welcomes everyone on Wednesday evening. "There's a fire going outside, and fresh salmon is being cooked," Govinda said as the gathering began.

The Warrior Song began the gathering.

Anthony Fernandes

Anthony Fernandes, ʔéʔɬx̣ʷaʔ Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm (Lower Elwha Klallam) from the house of k̕ʷaʔšə́nəm, welcomed everyone to The Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle.

Fernandes said his uncles were involved in the takeover of Fort Lawton, and today this space, the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, is a central meeting place.

"We don't have rights, we have responsibilities," Fernandes said, speaking on the protocols when entering peoples territory.

"Revolution is a circle," he said. The concept of this gathering is to find out what hasn't worked, and how to move forward and defend the water.

He said in these times, people are trying to make things comfortable. "What you do is important, not what you say you are going to do."

"I always tell my kids, 'love isn't a word, love is an action.'"

"The water is our grandmother."

"Our obligation is to these waters."

As a professor in Indigenous studies, he said that theory matters less than actually being on the land, respecting the land, and defending the land.

"Our warrior society comes from wolves, a mother wolf will never leave her cubs."

She will fight until death, she will never leave. Wolf packs will never cross the boundaries of another wolf pack.

Because of the way the earth is being treated, there are massive landslides, and it stopped people from being able to gather salmon, north of here.

"We don't just go on a canoe journey and have fun. We have awareness about what is going on, on our waters. We have an awareness of the war that has been waged against our people for millennia."

"We have to find ways to support one another."

Kanahus Manuel, Secwepemc

Kanahus Manuel, Secwepemc, shared good words on the Tiny House Warriors, and the struggle now to protect the waters as oil tankers burden the waters from the Trans Mountain Pipeline.

Speaking of the six years of struggle to stop the mammoth Trans Mountain Pipeline, she said, "It was always about our land, and our self determination, that was the fight, and it never stopped."

Now the pipeline is in its final stages and the toxic bitumen has started to flow down to the Salish Sea. She said the people need to get organized because this is going to affect the salmon.

"My spirit told me to get down here," she said, of coming here to be with the relatives, all connected by the salmon.

It is not just for us, she said, but the bear and the eagles depend on the salmon.

Now, mining is affecting the navigation of the salmon.

"We need it for our DNA. If we don't eat salmon we feel it in our blood."

Offering words of thanks for the Daybreak Star center, she said, "We can take our land back and build beautiful spaces."

Kanahus said the Tiny Houses will now be able to travel, occupy spaces, and its kitchen will be able to offer food for those gathered.


When Paul Chiyokten Wagner plays the flute, he said he can see his people free, free from the genocide.

Paul Chiyokten Wagner shared stories of his Coast Salish ancestors. Chiyokten is Wsaanich, Saanich, and founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea.

Chiyokten began by expressing gratitude for the water warriors, and for all Indigenous Peoples, and all those who stand up for these things that keep us alive.

"Our people have always educated the children in a certain way."

This is not spoken of enough, and the way we governed our land.

Sharing words from the ancestors, he said, "They allowed us to co-create paradise, they allowed us to give love to each and every being."

"The world needs to learn from our people."

These understandings from the matriarchs and elders make us who we are, someone who would not go out and harm the salmon, and would not go out and harm the eagles.

Speaking on the co-evolution with these beings around us, he gave respect for those who fought with their lives, so that we would still understand who we are.

Remembering his uncles who were murdered, those his mother cried for when he was a boy, he said, "They will never take away that warrior that lives inside of us."

The center of every Indigenous person is the protector of the sacred.

"A warrior is someone who is a voice for the voiceless, who stands for someone who cannot stand."

Speaking on the importance of fishing, he said go out and fish, otherwise those rights will be taken away.

Voices on fishing rights, and the rights for hunting and gathering, and the drum and songs were shared on Wednesday evening.

The Bear Song was shared.


Welcome to the Salish Sea Assembly!

ʔəsx̌id čəxʷ Relatives,

Indigenous peoples, and allies, environmental and philanthropic organizers and organizations, we are requesting your presence at the Salish Sea Assembly

Wednesday November 6 from 5 pm to 10 pm
Thursday November 7 from 11 am to 10 pm
Friday November 8 from 11 am to 10 pm

At Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, Unceded Coast Salish Territories, Seattle, Washington. We invite everyone to be present on Wednesday November 6th at 5pm for our traditional welcome by Dakota Case from Puyallup Nation and many nations will be present, including Makah speaking about their previous and upcoming whale hunt.

We will host 3-days of organizing space where we will have panel discussions, workshops and seafood feasts.

The panel discussions: Asserting indigenous jurisdiction and territorial authority to the Salish Sea Water is Life: Protecting the Salish Sea / Stopping extractive infrastructures for export of oil and gas, such as tankers
Creating international indigenous trade Networks focused in Food sovereignty, health and wellness, and traditional economic protocol
Orcas fighting back as an international symbol of resistance and protection of the ocean

We have to challenge what exists and formulate the plan to move forward. We will stand together and continue to build a strong alliance, as Indigenous People.


Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center

By Right of Discovery
United Indians of All Tribes Retakes Fort Lawton, 1970
by Lossom Allen



On the morning of March 8, 1970, two half-mile long columns of vehicles began forming in a south Seattle neighborhood. The vehicles moved north towards Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood and the recently decommissioned Fort Lawton Army installation. As the convoys headed north onlookers could see the red cloth banners streaming from the antennas of the automobiles. When the caravans reached their destinations, both the north and south sides of Fort Lawton, the occupants of the cars launched a coordinated effort to occupy the fort and establish it as a cultural and social services center for Seattle’s growing Native American population. In the midst of the ensuing struggle, the occupation’s principal organizer Bernie Whitebear stated, “We, the Native Americans, reclaim the land known as Fort Lawton in the name of all American Indians by right of discovery."

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ANTHONY FERNANDES

Anthony Fernandes is from the ʔéʔɬx̣ʷaʔ Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm (Lower Elwha Klallam) from the house of k̕ʷaʔšə́nəm. He carries on a family history of resistance, liberation, and the decolonization of Indigenous peoples, lands, and waters. Anthony’s works utilize music, media, and arts to create critical thought and discussion regarding colonization and decolonization. He has helped develop curriculum and teach courses rooted in Indigenous resistance, liberation, decolonization, and justice.

Anthony is a co-founder of Indigenous Life Schools through Cedars RISE (Revitalizing Indigenous Systems of Empowerment), which focuses on the revitalization of Indigenous cultures and lifeways by removing children from western educational systems and rooting their learning on land based Indigenous practices and ideologies. Recently, Anthony has begun to work with the Black Panther Party Cubs in reinvigorating the Rainbow Coalition and the vision of allyship in Black and Indigenous Resistance and Liberation.

He has a Master of Arts in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria, British Columbia and Anthony works throughout the occupied United States and Canada with Indigenous Youth in gang and substance abuse prevention and empowerment through cultural revitalization.

Salish Sea Assembly Series:

Protectors of the Waters: From the Salish Sea to Standing Rock
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/protectors-of-waters-from-salish-sea-to.html

Coast Salish Warrior Warriors, The Salish Sea Assembly, Day 3
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/state-of-emergency-for-salish-sea-in.html

Coast Salish Freedom Fighters from the Alberta Tar Sands to the Salish Sea, Day 2
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/coast-salish-freedom-fighters-from.html

Live from the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle, Day 1
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/today-salish-sea-assembly-in-seattle.html


Oil Tanker Traffic Surges in Washington Waters with the Expansion of Trans Mountain Pipeline 

by Seattle Times

ABOARD THE SALISH DEFENDER, Port Angeles — The May opening of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion in British Columbia has led to a sevenfold increase in oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Juan de Fuca so far this year.


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Part I: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/dine-supporters-for-palestine-removed.html

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https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/interior-sec-haalands-pueblo-is-in.html

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https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/oodham-woman-becomes-hero-when-genocide.html

WHITE MESA UTE, Utah: Excellent interviews in video series from the White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk to shut down uranium mill, by Unicorn Riot media
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/indigenous-spiritual-walk-to-white-mesa.html
Photos by Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/white-mesa-ute-community-spiritual-walk.html

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https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/arizonas-universities-are-instruments.html

STANDING ROCK -- 'The Day They Brought the Dogs In' Standing Rock files new lawsuit against DAPL. Energy Transfer bulldozed elite Lakota Warrior Society burial places.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-day-they-brought-dogs-in-standing.html

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