Protectors of the Salish Sea
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Contact: cheokten@gmail.com
Ending the era of fossil fuel foolishness in the Salish Sea as soon as possible through indigenous wisdom, understandings and solidarity. And building Coastal canoes with Tribal youth. In traditional indigenous ways there are no mistakes or coincidences, we are all here for a reason. Creator gave each and everyone of us a gift. We where all born with a CHA'LANG'ET (A birthright) to clean water and a livable future for our families. We also understand our Sacred Trusts, our Sacred Responsibilities as human beings to care for all life and we understand that everything has a soul and is alive for it was created by the same love and life that created you and I. With this the human family must come together and realize that our future is in our hands today and with this it is our responsibility to do all we can to honor the call from our future generations to create a future for them in order for them to have a stable climate to grow food, for them to be able to have free access to clean water. This we will do together.. we are all protectors... Protectors of the Salish Sea and beyond... Tlo masi sta (May Spirit make it so).... We are all Protectors ♥ The mission of Protectors of the Salish Sea is to bring long lasting harmony and true peace among all things back to our Salish Sea and beyond through the recognition and understandings of who we all are as human beings, a return to who The Creator intended us to be - Protectors who take care of all life. The very water that flows through our veins is the same ancestral water we are protecting for our future generations. Here are our core missions: - Building traditional Coastal Canoes: Putting tools in the hands of the youth, Indigenous youth empowerment. They are the leaders, teachers and protectors of today and the future. By building traditional Coastal Canoes we will keep the teachings of our ancestors alive as we teach youth the art of Coastal Canoe building as well as the art of protocol and Salish Sea navigation, bringing a sense of belonging and well being to our communities. Gathering skills through hands on crafting and direct action, becoming empowered in order to lead actions of their own and also to become teachers of Coastal canoe building and protector values off into the future. - Placing the Circle Of Life teachings as curriculum: Placing the teachings of wisdom back into the education system starting here in our Coast Salish lands. The teachings of Huchoosida have always lived upon these lands in the Salish Sea bio-region, brought out from the hearts and voices of our Indigenous elders inside of our Intellectual/Spiritual Longhouses. A heart beat ago we where surrounded by multiple generations of elders that taught us of Huchoosida (The intellect of the heart), allowing us to deeply understand that our entire being has an intellectual quality and that we should learn to think from this place first this way our actions which have many reactions will be of harmony and long lasting true peace with all things around us in all directions. For several generations the US and Canadian Governments worked hard to purposefully destroy these Circle of Life teachings by stealing the children away from our elder wisdom teachers. So Protectors Of The Salish Sea will begin the process of informing these governmental education agencies that they will help us return these extremely important teachings to the hearts of all the children inside of their educations system (public schools), allowing the 'Circle of life teachings' to be curriculum. These deep teachings are one of the ways that we have kept these lands and waters in paradisiacle well being for 16 thousand years by colonial count and since time immemorial by our count. This way the circle of elders will be full and abundant upon our lands and waters once again, teaching the children how to remain within the Circle of life. -Bring our ancestral being Tokitae (AKA Lolita) home to our ancestral waters of the Salish Sea as soon as possible through indigenous solidarity and letter writing from every child in the Salish Sea area. Tokitae is worlds loneliest orca, she has not seen another orca since the 1980s, she has been a slave to entertainment doing tricks for food twice a day for 37 years without a single day off. She is the sole survivor of 45 orcas that where kidnapped from our Southern Salish Sea and is held in an illegal sized pool at Seaquarium Miami Florida. only 78 orca remain in our Southern waters here. Tokitae still speaks her L-pod language and her mother is still swimming in our Southern Salish Sea. After Tokitae is swimming with her family once again in our Salish Sea and is freed with the solidarity of over 200 Salish Sea First Peoples/ First Nations we will demand that our Salish Sea be turned into a whale sanctuary... and with this there will be no more threat of 400 Kinder Morgan oil tankers in our Salish Sea. -Keeping our Protectors safe, dry and warm: We have built 51 Tarpees (Winter Shelter For Standing Rock) at Standing Rock, Lelu Island and Sabal Trail to ensure that our Water Protectors are able to do their good work. We plan on gifting Tarpees to all the other points of protection along proposed pipeline locations on Turtle Island and beyond. Hysw'ka siem (Thank you honorable one) for being a protector and bringing your heart and spirit into this movement for protection of water, life and future generations.
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