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