#fraservalley #bcflood All highways in/out of Lower Mainland to the Interior are closed. #Nooksack flood waters expected to reach BC/WA border in a few hours. #Abbotsford folx in #SumasPrairie areas being evac'd. This feels like a more informed version of #2021 flood nightmare all over again.

"Tribes 101: About the Native nations that share geography with Washington state"

Great article in the Salish Current explaining tribal sovereignty in #WashingtonState and the 50th anniversary of the Boldt Decision that upheld native treaty rights.

https://salish-current.org/2024/02/05/tribes-101-about-the-native-nations-that-share-geography-with-washington-state/

#Washington #CoastSalish #sovereignty #Lummi #Nooksack #Skagit #Swinomish #Samish #BellinghamWA

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Seattle #SpaceNeedle #HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #WestSeattle #Nooksack #MtBaker

#HappyThanksgiving everyone in #BellinghamWA and in particular on our #SubduedSocial Mastodon instance. In recognition that we live on the ancestral lands of our neighbors the #Lummi, #Nooksack, and other #CoastSalish peoples, I made another voluntary #LandTax donation to the Lhaq'temish Foundation equivalent to 10% of our hosting costs and domain registration fees over the past 6 months.

https://nativegov.org/news/voluntary-land-taxes/ https://www.lhaqtemish.org/

#Thanksgiving #NativeLand #NativeAmericanHeritageDay

Global News BC: B.C., Washington finalize cross-border flood-risk agreement https://globalnews.ca/news/10039665/bc-washington-nooksack-flood-agreement/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Environment #Disaster #nooksack #Weather #BCFlood #Flood

Want to learn more about the #PointElliottTreaty here in #Whatcom County? Check out this great video from the #Ferndale, WA public school district, which has observed #TreatyDay since 2020: https://youtu.be/AVCo2Mp2di0
#Lummi #Nooksack #CoastSalish

It's Treaty Day here in #BellinghamWA (home of subdued.social), where we recall the January 22, 1855 treaty between the United States and the native nations such as the #Lummi and #Nooksack who have lived on these lands since time immemorial. It's an important day to educate yourself about the Point Elliott Treaty and our continuing obligations to each other and to this land. It was this treaty that made the existence of #WhatcomCounty and #WashingtonState possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Point_Elliott #pnw

I live in #BellinghamWA where the local state college, Western Washington University, still holds 89 sets of #Indigenous people’s remains. @mitty of the local #Bellingham Herald dug deeper on this story broken by @ProPublica. Go Vikings! #WWU #repatriation #Whatcom #Skagit #Lummi #Nooksack #Swinomish

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article271077067.html

Cold and breezy up in the NW corner of the #PNW but thankfully no #snow. Granite construction spent yesterday logging the last of the #forest across the road. When the sun rises today we'll get a look at the carnage. It's been incredibly traumatic seeing all the wildlife and old growth trees scraped off the earth to profit orcs. Bureau of Indian Affairs sold them looting rights, against the wishes of the #Nooksack tribe whose land it is.

I have wished harm and death on men destroying the forest across the road from my farm. Murdering all the living beings who could not escape and the food and shelter of countless other living beings. They have been murdering for days, turning #oldgrowth cedars into board feet and sawdust. Wildlife are displaced and hungry and it's the middle of winter. Ironically, they were granted looting rights by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, against the wishes of the #Nooksack tribe whose land it is.

Granite construction is murdering the last of the #forest across the road today. It's #Nooksack tribal land the #BIA 'manages' for other tribes, against the wishes of the Nooksack tribe. There used to be #bears and #eagles and #MountainLions but now it's a wasteland of dust and orcs.

Ugh. Watching #Granite construction stage machinery for destroying the last bit of #forest between my #farm and the #Nooksack river. It's like watching #orcs obliterate the #shire. So much of the displaced #wildlife shows up at my house and it is so distressing.

#FirstNations

#Indigenous people facing disenrollment fight to remain with tribe | ABCNL

After being disenrolled from the #Nooksack tribe in 2016 after a former tribal chair questioned their ancestral lineage, the #Rabang family fights to preserve ...

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

Before it was Washington State, "the border" and Canada, indigenous peoples of the region had their OWN names for places that colonialist transport roads want to be on.

Before yet another purveyor of RCT went the French route, plagiarizing all the Mi'kmaq native things and attaching Eurocentric imperialist rulers' names upon our maps?

Stop overwriting Native Land Before Invasion with your understanding of things.

There is a talent war, and anybody intelligent enough to find and read the independent authorships... is probably in it. Let's not waste time talking about the documentation that is correct.

Hey, #Nooksack, we feel your pain. Ecosteader would have better solutions than Y.A.F.F. ("Yet Another F*&^%ng Fundraiser") for you to bastardize yourselves making entertainment for imperialists and oligarchs. Both the fascistbook and twoetter have started to train ya'all into begging like dogs.

Any book that names "Canada" or "United States" and an RCT date explaining "history" that DOES NOT DIRECTLY CREDIT AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES must be returned to company of defects -- never to be resold, but for the paper and the inks to be RECYCLED into new paper with correct historical maps and notations for the "kids these days."

Given the #fascistbook namechange to plagiarize the Mastodon UI, logo, and other content distribution, it seems whitemanZ favorite phrases are like "We can game anyone" and "See how far we can push 'em" (psychological warfare is whitemanZ's company expertise is why SO IMPORTANT u never look at his web or app-based sorting traps.)

As usual, young whitemanZ is incorrect; he gamed his own demise, nobody else has to go down with him.

IRL: pushback HARD against $JPM upgrading its bullying partner, a "big bank" $BAC domestic partner's buyability even more ostentatiously. Nobody can get away with propagating delusion forever.

Smart societies do not repeat recently-failed. #Nooksack peoples endangered too.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-prevent-the-eviction-of-the-nooksack-63

Elders in Winnemucca are not the only ones being targeted for eviction recently.

Wrote earlier[2] about an area shared by Halkomelam and #Nooksack peoples on two sides of an artificial colonialist-imposed border. Area recently experienced flooding due to extremes in weather, and is home to many tribal members:

[1]¨The timing of the evictions, Galanda said, comes amid “historic circumstances” – during the Christmas and New Year's holidays, amid a surging COVID-19 pandemic, just months after historic flooding and days after record-breaking winter weather.

The family that had its eviction delayed because of weather has been on “pins and needles,” he said, expecting to be forced from their home by tribal police because they “did not and will not vacate.”

In recent days, Galanda said people, including a drum group, have gathered in solidarity at the homes of some of the families facing evictions.¨

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Regarding ¨evictions¨ probably is important to remember that anywhere an eviction is based on something written or codified by Gregorian calendar is 100 percent wrong; all those colonist cops / other ¨uniformed¨ service men and women whose brains are forever broken on Meta programming from the fascistbook really need to stop clocking in for clocks that do not belong on Turtle Island.

[1]: https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/historic-winter-weather-delays-nooksack-evictions

[2]: https://ecosteader.com/@indie/107327769654566005

#PNW #Nooksack #BIA #calendars

Follow up given the atmospheric river of moisture upon the PNW, creating flooding and problems all over the region, and especially for the colonist construct known as B.C.

Semá:th Lake and what was part of a larger Nooksack and Halkomelam territory is what existed before lake ¨was drained in the 1920s to create and irrigate new farmland in the Fraser Valley¨[1], making Sumas, B.C..

¨British Columbia¨ as the fascist colonist mapmakers would have you believe ... is under control of some British entity and its incredibly deluded RCMP? Despite not being attached to the continent where all the British-speaking dialects originate?

Meanwhile on the southern side of Nooksack people's territory ... a people coerced, intimidated, and attacked. Still unresolved land disputes over centuries of colonial oppression. Be not surprised how recently targeted for disenrollment.[2]

This attack vector is known by many First Nations people who have had to fight and defend not just one but TWO DIFFERENT colonial forces claiming federal authority over our BEING on Turtle Island.

Centuries of tests, and In every experiment thus far, the colonist recipe for land-use management yields disaster.

Yet still ... still no colonist learning? Stupidity is rebuilding colonial structures[4]. The plan that has no stops to assess or retrospect?

Disaster w/ increasing levels of embarrassment to the colonial logicians! Unsustainable agricultural ecosystem over what is supposed to be floodplain for lake is not a good use of energy[4],

Christian church-run genocides? Probably we did not survive them for nothing.
#NooksackStrong #Nooksack #WetsuwetenStrong
#Flooding #PNW #Atmosphere

https://youtu.be/-eUKAWSDARA

1: https://globalnews.ca/news/8385289/sumas-lake-reflection-first-nations

2: https://stopdisenrollment.com/post/190792982145/nooksack-strongwe-belong

3: https://ecosteader.com/@indie/106925735397091598),

4: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/canadian-army-to-build-levy-in-abbotsford-in-bid-to-fix-broken-dike-and-save-the-sumas-prairie-from-disaster

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