For the last six years, Anthony Paul and I have been the target of a racially motivated criminal investigation and prosecution by the State of Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). But we are not the real target. The State’s real target is Tulalip Treaty rights. The real target is our way of life.
Read MoreThe Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) strongly denounces the ongoing attempts by non-Indigenous fisherman to intimidate, threaten, and prevent Mi’kmaq fisher men and women from exercising their unextinguished and constitutionally affirmed fishing rights.
Read MoreWe evict KXL and DAPL from our lands, we stand on our treaty rights to do so. We also stand on our inherent rights as Indigenous people that are ours under Natural Law. We invoke our ancestors to stand with us now, for our water, for our land, and the generations yet unborn.
Read MorePort Gamble S’Klallam tribal members recently celebrated the return of nearly 1,000 acres to tribal ownership, 165 years after the tribe signed the Point No Point Treaty that ceded most of the tribe’s land to the U.S. government.
Read MoreThe Court found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it affirmed federal permits for the pipeline originally issued in 2016. Specifically, the Court found significant unresolved concerns about the potential impacts of oil spills and the likelihood that one could take place.
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