Walk to Protect & Restore the Salish Sea - Food & Supplies

We are doing our 4th Walk to Protect our Salish Sea! But we need to serve meals to hungry Protectors after they have walked for hours in honor of our future generations. We will also be making "Protect & Restore our Salish Sea" silkscreen tee-shirts. We also need port-a-potties, purchase non-microfiber producing blankets and items to gift to honorable speakers and organizers as well as cover fuel expenses for our shuttle vehicles. So if you can not make it to this epic 4 day walk STOLȻEȽ "San Juan Island" on our Salish Sea September 27, 28, 29 & 30. You can still participate by funding our meals and supplies.

Here is some of the info for our walk:

“I believe in the sun and the stars, the water, the tides, the floods, the owls, the hawks flying, the river running, the wind talking. They’re measurements. They tell us how healthy things are. How healthy we are, because we and they are the same.”

-Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually Tribal Leader

We come together in NEȾEMOT (One Heart, One Mind, One Prayer, One House) for the safety and well-being of all sacred beings who live within our ŚW̱ḰENE (Salish Sea).

Since time immemorial, our W̱ILṈEW̱ EȽTÁLṈEW̱ (First Peoples) have lived with and cared for our ṮEṮÁĆES (Sacred Relatives of the deep — the Islands) and the beings of theses waters. These beings, in turn, have kept their sacred promise to us and to our Creator, offering their bodies and spirits in reciprocity. Now it is our turn to uphold our promise to keep them well.

Join us in song, dance, laughter, joy, voice, ceremony, action, and prayer as we walk to protect the circle of life, the water, and all future generations. Together, we resist the proposed 500% increase in oil tanker traffic that threatens our First Peoples’ sacred islands and the survival of our SĆȺNEX EȽTÁLṈEW̱ (salmon people, the KELȽOLEMEĆEN EȽTÁLṈEW̱ (killer whale people), and all who depend on these waters.

The people of our Salish Sea are rising like the tide again! To protect what we love and cherish as sacred, to stand together like the trees and lift each other up! The “each other” includes our grandchildren’s grandchildren, the orca and salmon people, the tree and bird people and all the other animal people of our Salish Sea. To ensure that there are no Tar-sands Oil Tankers in our Salish Sea, To stand in solidarity with Salish Sea tribes to ensure their treaty rights are honored, respected and for other nations to have their unceded territories, natural laws honored and respected. To breach the Snake river dams to keep our sacred promises to our Salmon People. For Climate Justice, as low glacial snowpacks create shallowed, warmed rivers and estuaries that devastate our wild salmon stalks which our Southern Resident Orcas depend upon.

This is why, on our 4rd Walk for our Salish Sea, we will be making offerings to the sacred water in ceremony, please bring a container of water from your place for this sacred work.

We are the keepers of the sacred promises to care for the circle life. We must all keep these sacred promises alive, this is why we are coming together this way.

This is a family friendly event, no recreational substances will be tolerated.

Current featured speakers:

Shirley Williams WhiteSwan Environmental

Kanahus Manual Tiny House Warriors

More co-hosts and presenters will be shared as the event approaches.

HÍSW̱KE SIÁM NE SĆÁLEĆE (Thank you honorable friends and family)) for working together for a livable future and for helping with this extremely important cause.

*Protectors of the Salish Sea*

For more info go to our Facebook page: Protectors of the Salish Sea

Here is a link to our Event: Walk to Protect & Restore our Salish Sea

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