Ahousaht

April 18, 2017

If nobody is speaking the truth then we are
all living a lie.

-Queen Sacheen

What I do know of our people out here was
that when it was time to go to war we weren’t pacifists. When we prayed at wartime we prayed to kill
our enemies, we prayed to be victorious; we prayed to be the winners of the
battle. Whatever that battle was,
whether it was over a broken paddle or a broken promise we weren’t peaceful, we
weren’t pacifists, we weren’t negating spirituality either; it was also
ceremonial.

-Queen Sacheen

Xhopakelxhit, Sacheen Seitcham, is a Snuneymuxw, Nuu Chah Nulth,
Coast Salish and Cree Grandmother, Medicine Maker, Water Protector and
Strategist. Co-Founder of the Coast Salish Native Youth Movement, The West Coast
Women Warrior Society Media Cooperative, Yaakswiis Warriors, Imperial No More and Ancestral Pride Sacheen’s life is
dedicated to the futures of the children. In August of 2016
Sacheen and 3 others were arrested for attempting to block the restocking of a
fish farm in Ahousaht waters and in the autumn Sacheen and her family were
throwing down with Red Warrior at Standing Rock and providing crucial on the
ground media coverage.

Sacheen’s work relies on the support of people like you dedicated to
Indigenous Sovereignty and Protection of Water, Land and Life. With
court dates coming up on both sides of the colonial border, family to
support and Imperial Metals, the Kinder Morgan Pipeline and Cermaq to fuck up
your donations are crucial.

Please support Warriors.

E- transfers can be made to: mamazonscreations@gmail.com

Donate Sacheen’s work
with Imperial No More

or Donate
directly to support Sacheen

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/if-nobody-is-speaking-the-truth-then-we-are-all/

April 17, 2017

I do believe that the creator lives inside
of everybody and I do believe in my ancestors and I do believe that I am doing
what’s right. The things that I am
motivated by and that keep me going are my Grandkids. I have a responsibility to them. It’s really sad that the work that we do as
Mothers and Grandmothers and Protectors and Warriors is vilified.

-Queen Sacheen

Please support Warriors.

E- transfers can be made to: mamazonscreations@gmail.com

Donate Sacheen’s work
with Imperial No More

or Donate
directly to support Sacheen

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/i-do-believe-that-the-creator-lives-inside-of/

April 13, 2017

Look into your babies eyes and tell me,
tell me you are not going to do everything in your power to make sure they have
a future that doesn’t involve living in fucking consumer barracks, living in
the capitalist trenches of the cities fucking being mindless zombies living in
fucking boxes and buying fucking boxes and throwing fucking boxes away and then
ending up in a box and it all meant nothing and that’s the legacy. To me the legacy is freedom. The legacy is liberation. And maybe there will be blood shed, more than
already has been, and maybe that blood will be mine, but if there’s a future
worth having then it is worth it to me.

-Queen Sacheen

Please support Warriors.

E- transfers can be made to: mamazonscreations@gmail.com

Donate Sacheen’s work
with Imperial No More

or Donate
directly to support Sacheen

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April 11, 2017

My Dad always told me, life is not about
you, it’s not about me, it’s about the future.

-Queen Sacheen

When I say that leadership sells us out
they are literally signing deals with companies like Cermaq to stand against
their own people. I am afraid that there
are not enough people who can take the time or effort to fight. Industry and complicit leadership use tactics to bully people and silence them.

-Queen Sacheen

Please support Warriors.

E- transfers can be made to: mamazonscreations@gmail.com

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April 10, 2017

I never think of the land as a separate
being from myself. It’s part of who I
am. My ancestors bled for the land,
their bones are in the land, their ashes are in the land and in the water.

-Queen Sacheen

When war is happening every day to our people, when
war is happening every day to our fucking psyches and our minds, through social
media, and resource extraction, through neo-colonialism, through our elected
leaders signing papers with corporations these are acts of war. So everyday when I am praying in the morning
and praying when I go to bed I am praying to be strong enough to fight that
war.

-Queen Sacheen

Xhopakelxhit, Sacheen Seitcham,

is a Snuneymuxw, Nuu Chah Nulth, Coast Salish and Cree Grandmother, Medicine Maker, Water Protector and Strategist. Co-Founder of the Coast Salish Native Youth Movement, The West Coast Women Warrior Society Media Cooperative, Yaakswiis Warriors, Imperial No More and Ancestral Pride Sacheen’s life is dedicated to the futures of the children. In August of 2016 Sacheen and 3 others were arrested for attempting to block the restocking of a fish farm in Ahousaht waters and in the autumn Sacheen and her family were throwing down with Red Warrior at Standing Rock and providing crucial on the ground media coverage.

Sacheen’s work relies on the support of people like you dedicated to Indigenous Sovereignty and Protection of Water, Land and Life. With court dates coming up on both sides of the colonial border, family to support and Imperial Metals, the Kinder Morgan Pipeline and Cermaq to fuck up your donations are crucial.

Please support Warriors.

E- transfers can be made to: mamazonscreations@gmail.com

Sign up to make a monthly donation

Donate Sacheen’s work with Imperial No More

or Donate directly to support Sacheen

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/i-never-think-of-the-land-as-a-separate-being-from/

Urgent Legal Defense Funds

October 25, 2016

Several
Indigenous Activists from the West were arrested. At this point Crow, Sacheen and Kanahus have been released. However West Coast warriors are still in need of legal funds.

Please e-transfer to hwalia8@gmail.com [as requested by family
members and legal counsel]. We need to raise 2000 USD = 3000$ CDN
immediately.

More
information and updates below

LEGAL FUNDS NEEDED ASAP! SUPPORT WEST COAST WARRIORS!

*
Read update from Kanahus below *

Today
eighty water protectors were violently arrested near Dakota Pipeline construction
sites. As written by Red Warrior Camp “You are trespassing on Native
Land. You are protecting the destruction of our sacred sites. Put down your
guns, turn in your badges. Understand the indestructible spirit of indigenous
people walking with prayers and sacrifice of our ancestors for sacred
water.”

Four
of those arrested are well known West Coast land defenders and members of the
Secwepemc Women’s Warrior Society, Ancestral Pride and West Coast Women
Warriors Media Cooperative: Kanahus Manuel, Queen Sacheen, James Joe Crow and
Rose Stiffarm.

***
IMMEDIATE LEGAL FUNDS ARE NEEDED! ***

Please
e-transfer to hwalia8@gmail.com
[as requested by family members and legal counsel]. We need to raise 2000 USD
= 3000$ CDN immediately.

Legal
is needed ongoing for all water protectors: https://www.generosity.com/…/red-warrior-camp-legal-fund-no… andhttps://fundrazr.com/campaigns/d19fAf

ALSO
SUPPORT BY CALLING AND DEMANDING RELEASE:
The Morton County Sheriff’s dep’t: (701)
667-3330 or (701)667-3405
Jail: 1-701-667-3318
or 701-328-9921

WORDS
FROM KANAHUS:

“Things
are very disorganized at the jail, because they arrested 80+ people today.
Earlier in the day they did not even have a list of all the people they had
in custody. In a cell with 30 women and there are others in other cells. Sacheen Seitcham
and Joe James Crow are also among those arrested as is cinematographer Rose
Stiffarm. we were doing a peaceful prayer march through fields. Construction
has been happening in important areas and some people chained themselves to machinery.
The riot police put paper/cloth bags over the heads of those defenders. The
people in the prayer march were away from the construction zone and just in a
field when the riot police swarmed the field, they pepper sprayed people,
threw underage girls on the ground and swept and arrested all the people on
the field. Again, that was not supposed to happen, we were all in a peaceful
prayer march away from construction. It was local, state and federal police
that descended on them and arrested.”

The supervisor said they will all be charged with “criminal
trespass” and “inciting a riot”.”

September 15, 2016

On August 25th we drove out of Lekwungen Territory to go visit our friend Sacheen, a Grandmother, medicine maker, traditional midwife, writer and unwavering land defender.

Sacheen and her husband Crow, of Ancestral Pride and the Yaakswiis warriors live in the village of Ahousaht on so-called Flores Island with three of their children. The village is a short boat ride from the yuppie surfer tourist bon-iver listening culturally appropriative hell of Tofino. Surrounded by the ocean and one of the last standing temperate rain forests still intact Ahousaht is watched over by Chitapii Mountain from across the waves.

We arrived a few days after Sacheen, Crow, their niece Havannah and friend Lenny, all Ahousaht members, were arrested for attempting to stop the restocking of a Cermaq fish farm. This fish farm was the site where over a million fish were culled when it was shut down in 2012 due to risk of disease spreading to wild fish. Fish farms are responsible for devastating Wild Salmon runs particularly in the Fraser River. This has had terrible impacts on dozens of communities not just along the coast, but the whole length of the river. The corporations responsible are heavily subsidized and protected by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and the ‘federal government’ of so-called canada.

After spending the night catching up and preparing for the next day we all threw down with a demo at the DFO in solidarity with those arrested for defending their land. The DFO was shut down for the day due to the presence of Land Defenders and their supporters. Those arrested were present and affirmed that although RCMP had forced them to sign conditions they would not back down in the defense of Wild Salmon.

Upon returning home to Ahousaht we arrived to a dozen wild salmon gifted to Sacheen and Crow for their protection of land, waters and life. We spent the next dozen hours together processing and canning these life giving fish. Salmon are a crucial species for the ecosystems of which they are apart. They are also a primary food for many people all over Turtle Island. The destruction of our relationships to the animals and plants that are our foods is a form of colonialism and genocide that goes back to the very beginnings of the occupation of turtle island. It escapes none of us that the destruction of wild salmon is similar to the slaughter of the buffalo.

The rains came as we visited and most of our days were spent playing with Chevayo, Sacheen and Crows youngest, making big meals for the dozen of us in the house while sharing stories and planning for continued resistance to both Fish Farms and Imperial Metals a company with mineral rights to Chitapii mountain. The rain did let up enough so that we were able to explore the beaches and forests and harvest black berries, huckleberries, blueberries and cranberries.

Sacheen and her family live resistance each and every day. It is not a job or something that can ever be put down and returned too. It is always such a gift to spend time with this family who are so dear to our hearts and to join in resistance to the corporations, whether industry or the so-called government of canada that threaten their lives and home.

If you too are interested in supporting Sacheen and her families work we suggest signing up for a monthly donation through their website. We all know the monthly hustle to pay to live is real especially when we have people dependent on us and our contributions to relieve Sacheen and Crow of this monthly hustle is a huge strength to our collective movement towards liberation.

Make a monthly donation.

You can also support the campaign Imperial No More.

…and learn more about Ancestral Pride’s work on their website.

Lastly if you live nearby we’re planning a big bus ride with some pals to head up to Tofino for Sacheen, Crow, Lenny and Havannah’s court date on November 7th. If you interested shoot us an email as we would love to have you join us.

xo beyon and Wulfgang.

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/on-august-25th-we-drove-out-of-lekwungen-territory/

Imperial Metals AGM

June 28, 2016

On May 27th the Corporate Scum behind the Mount Polley disaster, where a four kilometer tailings pond emptied into Polley Lake, Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake, met on unceded Musqueam territory for their annual shareholders meeting.

Secwepemc Warrior, Kanahus Manuel, and supporters were there to greet them and remind the decisions makers of the company that they do not have permission to be on unceded Neskonlith Secwepemc territory and in fact have been told to leave.

Although Kanahus had the legal documentation to enter the AGM as a Proxy Voting member dozens of the Colonial Corporation of Canada’s hired guns blocked her way.

Imperial Metals is responsible for one of the most horrific acts of terror in this region since agents of the Hudson Bay company committed acts of violence through biological warfare, known as smallpox. The destruction of the land upon which the Secwepemc people live and contamination of their food sources is part of a legacy of colonial violence and genocide committed by the Corporation of Canada and the Corporations they partner with.

Sovereign Indigenous communities living on their unceded territories, who are not a part of the so called Canadian State, all over the region are resisting the invasive and destructive actions of Imperial Metals. The Tahltan people have been fighting hard against Imperial Metal’s Red Chris Mine, which has recently been given the ‘permits’ to operate at full capacity despite the opposition of the people responsible for the lands.

Members of Ancestral Pride, an Indigenous resistance organization from the village of Ahousaht on Nuu-chah-nulth territory have been organizing against Imperial Metal’s plans to open pit mine the sacred Chitaapii Mountain located directly across from the village.

On unceded Wet’suwe’ten territories Imperial Metals has been illegally operating an open pit copper mine without permission of the hereditary peoples responsible for protection of the lands there. Although the mine is currently not in operations due to low copper costs, it must not be permitted to open again.

We support the Talhtan, Secwepemc, Nuu-chah-nulth, Wet’suwe’ten and all sovereign Indigenous peoples and their protection of the lands we all rely on to live.

We’re also looking forward to visiting with Kanahus and Sacheen of Ancestral Pride in August and to be including them in Voices.

If you want to know more about how you can support these rad women led movements get at us and shoot us an email!

xox