Program

White Earth – #RedRoadtoDC

This territory is the headwaters of the Red River and the Mississippi River; the territory of the Great Lakes. The current concern is that the Canadian corporation, Enbridge, is proposing a new route for their Line 3 pipeline replacement across a pristine water-rich environment. The lakes, streams, wetlands, and the Mississippi River would all be at risk. Line 3 is a clear danger to the climate, water, and land in Minnesota, and would undermine the Indigenous treaty rights of the Anishinaabe people.

Protect Thacker Pass – #RedRoadtoDC

The Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu (People of Red Mountain) are a committee of traditional knowledge keepers and members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe who are working to oppose the proposed Thacker Pass Lithium Mine on their ancestral homelands and to protect Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass).

Snake River – #RedRoadtoDC

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to restore wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia & Snake Rivers and their tributaries, once the greatest salmon rivers in the world. We can do this by removing four outdated and expensive dams on the lower Snake River. For too long these dams have impeded the rights of Nez Perce and other Northwest First Peoples to exercise Traditional Fishing Treaty Rights. The federal government promised the Nez Perce People the right to hunt and fish in their usual and accustomed places as part of the 1855 Treaty. The promise was broken. It’s time to right this wrong

Our Last Refuge: The Fight to Protect Badger-Two Medicine – #RedRoadtoDC

The Badger-Two Medicine is the sacred homeland of the Blackfeet Nation. It is home to their creation story, and has been a place of refuge and healing for 10,000 years. This virtual event will open with a screening of “Our Last Refuge”, a short film that tells the story of the Badger-Two Medicine and the decades-long struggle to protect it from the incursion of oil and gas, followed by a discussion with Native leaders and community organizers who are working to defend the Badger-Two Medicine, not only as an important wildlife sanctuary, but also as an intermediary to Blackfeet spiritual power.

Salish Sea – #RedRoadtoDC

We invite you to join the House of Tears Carvers and our partners for the launch of “The Red Road to DC: A Totem Pole Journey for the Protection of Sacred Places” — a touring series of ceremonies, public events, media projects, and campaigns culminating in a rally on the National Mall and an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.