"Tribes 101: About the Native nations that share geography with Washington state"
Great article in the Salish Current explaining tribal sovereignty in #WashingtonState and the 50th anniversary of the Boldt Decision that upheld native treaty rights.
“People forget that non-Indians in Western Washington have treaty rights, too. Treaties opened the door to statehood. Without them, non-Indians would have no legal right to buy property, build homes or even operate businesses on the millions of acres tribes ceded to the federal government.
“Treaty rights should never be taken for granted — by anyone.”
Of all the #plantFoods consumed by the peoples of the #Northwest Coast, none was more important than the tasty bulbs of the flowering plant known as #BlueCamas . Among the #CoastSalish of #VancouverIsland it was the principal source of carbohydrates in a fat- and protein-heavy diet. #Ethnobotanists estimate a single family might have gathered 10 thousand bulbs in a season, and as many as 10 million were harvested on the island every year.
I just calculated everything we paid for #SubduedSocial hosting & domain registration this year so far, and our donation rate is looking good enough to cover costs with a bit of safety margin. So I went ahead and made a voluntary #LandTax donation to the Lhaq'temish Foundation equivalent to 10% of our hosting costs. I haven't found a way to do recurring donations to them or any other local native nonprofit, so I'll just do it periodically by hand. https://nativegov.org/news/voluntary-land-taxes/https://www.lhaqtemish.org/
#HappyThanksgiving everyone in #BellinghamWA and in particular on our #SubduedSocial Mastodon instance. In recognition that we live on the ancestral lands of our neighbors the #Lummi, #Nooksack, and other #CoastSalish peoples, I made another voluntary #LandTax donation to the Lhaq'temish Foundation equivalent to 10% of our hosting costs and domain registration fees over the past 6 months.