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Wulfgang just returned to the big concrete after spending some time with the wonderful Christine Jack up at Ulluisc.  Here’s a video they shot for Christine and if you have any questions about how you can support Christine’s work or if you are interested in attending the Gathering and need more info. please get in touch and they might be able to help answer or direct your questions 🙂

Also!  There is the “All Others Gathering” going down in August, which is specifically for Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans humans.  So stay tuned for more details about that in the coming weeks.

xoxo

Christine Jack caretaker of Ulluisc, part of St’at’imc territory, provides an update about upcoming gatherings.

On June 3rd Ulluisc will be hosting a walk and talk with Elders from 10 am to 2pm.

June 19th to 23rd is the Women’s Gathering at Ulluisc.  This event is for Women identified people of all walks of life (this means trans women and two-spirit people wanting to work with woman energy welcome.)  Space for children will be provided with child minders.  The terrain is rocky with dirt roads and the outhouse at the cabin is wheel chair accessible.  There will be people on site skilled with first aid.

There will be lunch served as people arrive on the 19th and a farewell circle on the 23rd.

Please bring your camping gear, foods to contribute (particularly if you have allergies), any donations you would like to make to the gratitude table, a blanket donation for the sweat lodge if you so desire, and any sacred items you wish to work with.  No need to pack water as the creak is drinkable.  There will be volunteer cooks to provide meals.

Much love and solidarity to you all.

Christine Jack is a Two-Spirit spiritual leader and healer who lives 51 km up the mountains at Ulluisc to protect the ancestral village, the animals, the waters and the lands from threat of industrial expansion and logging.

To get to Ulluisc: Stay on the Yalakom road following the yellow kilometer markers go past the Ore Creek Campsite, go past the yellow 44km marker, go past the turn off to Lac la Mare (stay on the road that goes along the river), keep staying on the Yalakom road until just past the 50 km mark.

To make monetary donations cheques can be mailed to PO Box 1188 Lillooet BC V0K 1V0.

You can learn more about Ulluisc here:

https://www.facebook.com/reoccupationofjunctioncreek/

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/wulfgang-just-returned-to-the-big-concrete-after/

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

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-do-believe-that-the-creator-lives-inside-of/

Rebelling is not like a cool thing you do
and then you go to college and then get a fucking job and then be a fucking
capitalist for the rest of your life.

-Queen Sacheen

It’s a colonial lie that we cannot support
each other in a diversity of tactics.  

-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/rebelling-is-not-like-a-cool-thing-you-do-and-then/

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

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/look-into-your-babies-eyes-and-tell-me-tell-me/

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/

Wulfgang and a bunch of our loves are going to be at this 3 day skill share event on Coast Salish Territory.  Click the headers to get the full info.  Maybe see you there!! xo

Voices from the Sacred Fire: Indigenous Land Defenders Speak

~~~ With Freda Huson (Unist’ot’en) ~~~ Ladonna Brave Bull Allard
(Standing Rock Sioux) ~~~ Richard Wright (Madii Lii)  ~~~ Brandon
Gabriel (Kwantlen)~~~Kachina Bige (Lutsel’ke Dené) ~~~~ Sakej Ward
(Mi’kmaw) ~~~ Kanahus Pelkey (Secwepemc)

Stoking the Sacred Fire: Mobilization for Indigenous Land Defense

Saturday March 25 and Sunday March 26, 2017
From 9 am to 5 pm
Location: The Hall at 1739 Venables Street (at Commercial Drive) Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/wulfgang-and-a-bunch-of-our-loves-are-going-to-be/

My friend Destiny Michell speaking on Lkwungen Territory about her experiences as a Youth doing protocol and hiking on her Yintah (territory) Talbits Kwa.  Destiny is in grade 7 this year and preparing to be a Hereditary Chief of the Unist’ot’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation.  She is protecting the land now for herself and her future generations.

<3 Such a pleasure to interview Destiny last summer and always such a gift to spend time with her, Destiny you bring nourishment to the hearth of my heart! 

http://unistoten.camp/

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/my-friend-destiny-michell-speaking-on-lkwungen/

https://www.gofundme.com/ep2zww9k

Our friends Molly Wickham, who we visited and interviewed last summer for the Voices Project and her Sister, Jennifer, who is writing the forward for Voices: Indigenous Women on the Front Lines Speak, have put out a call for support for the Indigenous Life School.

Indigenous life school is gearing up for a spring gathering in april
2017. At this time, one of the families will begin construction of a new
traditional pit house, the families will learn how to care for and ride
horses, and focus on archery as a means of self sustainability.

We are looking for your support to assist families with travel and food
costs as well as supplies for the traditional pit house.

Your support will go directly to indigenous families who are  working
hard to raise their children in a traditional way–providing them with
land based, experiential learning opportunities such as building their
own homes.

Raising children on the land, in their culture is the most important work that can be done to protect all life.  Please share the fundraiser with your networks and give if you can.

xo

beyon and wulfie

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/httpswwwgofundmecomep2zww9k-our-friends/