#Tulalip video on their 18,000 acre land purchase in North Fork Tolt River valley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm66RLua7fw

The last part of this section (The #AIM Song of Anguish) of chapter 8 of #KleeBenally's book #NoSpiritualSurrender is something that I can relate to. After my negative experience with an AIM member, I formed an alliance with #RobertaBlackgoat and #CorbinHarney -- and told their stories (as well as providing #MutualAid). And yeah, not all resistance groups are created equal!

"AIM has been extraordinarily gloried but they weren’t the only radical #Indigenous organizations operating then; communities with forces such as #JanetMcCloud fighting for fishing rights in so-called Washington, Corbin Harney resisting #NuclearColonialism in so-called Nevada, grandmothers #KatherineSmith, #PaulineWhitesinger, and Roberta Blackgoat fighting coal mining and forced relocation on #BlackMesa, and so many more have fought for decades to protect sacred lands and waters. Occasionally AIM would be there alongside those struggles and sometimes they would not be welcome. In spite of this, the AIM song still echoes and invokes the spirit of resistance in #Tulalip, #WesternShoshone, and #Diné frontlines, and far beyond."

Page 184, Klee Benally, No Spiritual Surrender

#WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #NoUraniumMining #BigMountainResistance

"The path to reconciliation starts with honest acknowledgement of our past, with open eyes and open hearts for a better future."
--Matika Wilbur, Swinomish and Tulalip, photographer http://www.matikawilbur.com/

#Indigenous #photographer #MatikaWilbur #Swinomish #Tulalip #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

This is gorgeous! 🤩​

"Created by #MatikaWilbur (of the #Swinomish & #Tulalip #Tribes), #Project562 is a #documentary multi-year national #photography project dedicated to photographing 562+ federally recognized Tribes, urban #Native communities, Tribes fighting for federal recognition & #Indigenous role models in what is currently-known-as the US, resulting in an unprecedented repository of imagery & oral histories that accurately portrays contemporary #NativeAmericans"

https://www.project562.com/11397500-gallery