Join us for bannering on Indigenous Peoples Day Monday October 11 at 5 pm

Hi everyone, Please come out for Indigenous Peoples Day and support freeing the lower Snake River. We will be bannering Monday, October 11 at Maiden Lane and Wenatchee Avenue at 5 pm. We meet in the SE corner of the Walmart Parking lot and walk down to the Avenue. Come and join us. Jim, Sue, Patricia and I were out a few weeks ago. We are changing the top line of the banner to “Stand With Tribes” for this event. Kevin

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“We view restoring the lower Snake River – a living being to us, and one that is injured – as urgent and overdue. Congressman Simpson, in focusing on the facts and on a solution, speaks the truth – that restoring salmon and the lower Snake River can also reunite and strengthen regional communities and economies.”

— Vice Chairman Shannon Wheeler, Nez Perce Tribe

Will you join us for 1 hour on Indigenous People’s Day, to stand with tribes, to call for restoring wild salmon and re-wilding the Lower Snake River?

Both the Affiliated Tribes of NW Indians (ATNI) and the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) have passed resolutions this year calling on the restoration of the Snake River, by breaching the dams on the Lower Snake.

The Nez Perce Tribe has asked that everyone join them in demanding action to restore the Snake River. One way we are answering their call for solidarity is to deploy banners in Pacific NW cities, calling for the removal the Lower Snake River Dams.

Can you join us in bannering across Washington State, on Indigenous People’s Day – Monday, October 11th – in solidarity with Pacific NW Tribes?

Banner sessions last 1 hour and can happen at freeway overpasses, ferry terminals, and wherever there is good visibility, for 3 people to safely stand with a banner.

Sign up TODAY for next Monday’s action at www.BackboneCampaign.org/101121
Sign up and SHARE on Facebook Facebook.com/BackboneCampaign
Add your name to the Nez Perce petition SalmonOrcaProject.com
Add your name to the Umatilla Youth Petition

And in case you missed last week’s fantastic webinar, the “Soul of the Snake: Reconnecting Rivers, Fish & People” – it is now available on the Trout Unlimited (TU) YouTube channel

Description from webinar:
“An inside look at the campaign to re-open the lower Snake River and save imperiled salmon and steelhead. …. Join Vice Chairman Shannon Wheeler of the Nez Perce Tribe, U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), and Trout Unlimited president and CEO Chris Wood to learn how you can help save one of the Northwest’s most valuable fisheries.”

Rep Simpson Initiative lays out issues to be deliberated and fine tuned that will allow for replacing all services provided by the 4 lower Snake River dams. The opportunity is available to move past the endless debate of quantifying LSRD services and on to what’s required to restore the Pacific Northwest ecosystem.