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An Update From the Road

Good Morning Deer Loves,

As our mother Earth turns us towards the sun and the seeds are rising up and growing tall much work is being done to
protect land, water and Indigenous Sovereignty.

We wanted to take this moment to provide some news on this work because people on their lands doing this work need our support.

 xoxo wulf and beyon.

Wulf and two other trans white settler supporters living on Lkwungen Territory are facing charges and harsh proposed
sentencing.  They are remaining strong and have connected with a lawyer who will be representing the three co-accused on a pay what you can basis.  Thank you to everyone who has been providing such incredible care, knowledge and support.

 

While this has been going on Wulf has been able to spend time at Flo’s farm and at Ulluisc mostly helping with getting
food in the earth.  They are super grateful for all the love and support that makes it possible for them to be
mobile and available on the ground especially to support the people they love.

Cyale

Flo and Wolverine’s farm, Cyale, is well underway with planting and much work was done by hand to weed and mulch the large strawberry patch and prepare the soil for beans, peas and potatoes.  The thing is Flo and her family are still
trying to raise the funds to purchase tractor wheels, which cost about $3400.  Approximately $2600 has been
raised so far.  To learn more about Flo’s work and contribute there is an online fundraiser here: https://fundrazr.com/flowolverinefarm

Ulluisc

Christine Jack, caretaker of Ulluisc, is hosting 3 gatherings over the coming months.

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.)

The third gathering is the All Others Gathering for Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans identified folks.  More details to come!

For more information check out Christine’s most recent update video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDBve6oBFTs

And here is the event page for the Women’s gathering:

https://www.facebook.com/events/523978791059714/

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

There is also a fundraiser for Ulluisc on Coast Salish Territory, vancouver bc, on May 29th.   

https://www.facebook.com/events/258251721314546/permalink/270555103417541

Lil’wat

The Indigenous Leadership Academy is building a Pit House in Lil’wat a part of the St’at’imc Nation. This is an educational project that revives Indigenous ways of being through teaching, and living.

They are raising funds here: https://www.chuffed.org/project/pit-house-indigenous-architecture-revival-project#

Yakguudang

Tsimshian, Haida and Nisga’a Water Protector Goot-Ges is currently raising funds to cover the cost for her and three other Indigenous Mothers on Tsimshian territory to take a trauma healing course as part of the preparations in establishing a safety plan for Girls and Women in the city of Prince Rupert.  With industry moving forward with export facilities on unceded waters the threat of Man Camps housing thousands of transient and exploited workers pose serious threats of violence against women.

You can donate directly to Goot-Ges’s work through e-transfer here: yakguudang@gmail.com

And learn more about her work here: https://yakguudangjournies.wordpress.com/

 

Secwepemc

Secwepemc Women Warriors threw down recently at the Imperial Metals AGM where one supporter was arrested and later released.

https://www.facebook.com/100012060671019/videos/303883980023622/

And they are getting themselves and their people organized and need your support:

FUNDRAISING APPEAL for the Secwepemc’ulecw Assembly

All settler comrades, friends and allies, Elders and women from the Secwepemc nation are hosting a nation-wide Secwepemc’ulecw Assembly on the land in June. The goals of the Assembly are to discuss and take action under Secwepemc law against colonial corporate development impacting Secwepemc’ulecw without Collective Consent.

One of the imminent concerns is to resist Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion. The Assembly will be taking place on the land close to where the pipeline is proposed to cross. The LARGEST Indigenous territory that Kinder Morgan crosses is in fact Secwepemc territory. The pipeline would carry 900,000 barrels a day of diluted bitumen through 518 km of Secwepemc territory.

This Assembly is rooted in the vision of beloved Secwepemc leader Arthur Manuel. Shortly before he passed away, he wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: “We do not accept that the federal government can make this
decision unilaterally and without the prior informed consent of the Secwepemc people as the rightful titleholders… Any leakage would immediately threaten the pacific salmon who spawn in the Thompson and Fraser River basins. It is not surprising that most Secwepemc people are in complete solidarity with the Water Protectors from Standing Rock North
Dakota. Our waters are also sacred.”

Secwepemc women, elders and nation members are volunteering their time, energy and labour to host this assembly. They write, “The Secwepemc peoples’ have survived the impacts of colonialism (disease, residential schools, the Indian Act) and maintain our original instructions to look after the water, plants, and animals.”

*** HOW TO SUPPORT ****

As settlers, our responsibilities must also be unwavering and unequivocal – to support Indigenous Peoples affirming collective Indigenous law over their territories. As settlers and organizations, we daily materially benefit from living and working on lands that are unjustly seized and occupied.

One concrete way to support is to financially resource this grassroots effort. ** We suggest all settlers donate at least one day of their wage or whatever you can contribute to resourcing this Assembly. ** The fundraising goal is $15,000 for food, tents, gas and transportation costs, elders lodging, sound equipment and more.

Etransfer funds to: Tellqelmucw@gmail.com
Question: What is this for?
Password: Assembly.

or Cheques to Janice Billy, Treasurer, George Manuel Institute, Unit B –
5836 Trans Canada Highway, Chase, BC, V0E 1M0.

Everyone also email hwalia8@gmail.com if you are sending an etransfer or cheque with the amount being sent and if and how you would like to be included in the list of thank yous.

Thank you for contributing to this struggle and strengthening collective Secwepemc governance. Share this far and wide.

xoxo

Front Line Family Needs Your Support

Our friend Goot-Ges is selling tickets to raffle off the prints pictured below by Jaalen Edenshaw. Winners choice as to which print they would like. 

Proceeds will
help Goot-Ges and her children travel to the Indigenous Life School coming up next
week. She is also needing to travel to another capacity building workshop with her kids next month, and a trip home to Haida Gwaii.

Will also be selling photo
cards from #skeenariverfishing- coming soon.

Tickets are $20 each. And once all tickets are sold, raffle would be done for one print. You can purchase a ticket through email transfer.

etransfer: yakguudang@gmail.com

Howaa for all your support.

The government never changed its
agenda: take away their land, take away their food sources, especially the food
sources, if you take away the food you take away the people and then we would
become even more dependent upon them, fully assimilated and believe that we’re
Canadian.  This makes us more wiling to
participate in the destruction of our lands and waters for so called financial
benefits or economy or jobs. 

–Goot-Ges

I feel at times in my life I’ve been really
disconnected from the earth.  I’ve lived in the city, you know spent a lot
of time in places where there is just concrete around you and eating foods form
stores where I have no idea who harvested the foods and no idea how to be
responsible for feeding myself.  I have come to realise that here we have
everything we need in this region to live and thrive and the more wild plants I
learn that I can eat the more grateful I am and realise that we don’t need to
be looking elsewhere and manufacturing all kinds of harmful awful things that
are bad for you.  I’m grateful and I feel like when there are things that
you are grateful for you have to work damn hard to keep them and honour
them.

–Christie Brown

The way things are going today as indigenous people we’re
heavily criminalized for saying “I want the right to clean air,”
“I want the right clean water” and “I want the right for our
food sources to be protected for not only my generation, but my children’s generation
and the next generations to come." 

-Goot-Ges

Goot-Ges is a Haida, Nisga’a and Tsimshian woman from the
village of skulls, Gingolx, in the Nisga’a Nation whose clan is Raven from the
house of T’tanihaulk.  She is a
land defender, freelance writer, radio producer and independent mother of
three.  In August of 2015 in
collaboration with four other Indigenous women Goot-Ges began an occupation at
Lax U’u’la, which continues to protect the island and surrounding waters from
destruction to this day.  Her work is
rooted in cultural practice: prayer, story telling and medicine as healing and
an integral aspect of resistance to ongoing colonization.  She has founded and supported countless
projects assisting her people in healing inter-generational trauma and ending
gender based violence. 

Check out
Goot-Ges’ most recent project Yakguudan, which means ‘to respect all life’ in Haida.

Christie Brown of Gitxan and Scottish descent has worked to
defend the lands, waters, salmon and lives of her people against the Northern
Gateway pipeline and Petronas’ Pacific North West LNG export facility.  Her creative forms of resistance merge the
contemporary tools at hand with the revitalization of traditional skills and
hereditary systems.  In August of 2015 in
collaboration with 4 other Indigenous women Christie organized and began an
occupation of Lax U’u’la on unceded Tsimshian territory.  Christie’s work defending Lax U’u’la, the
Flora Banks and it’s protective eelgrass and the Skeena River continues to this
day. 

Support Christie and her work
upholding Tsimshian Law to protect Lax U’u’la for future generations.

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/the-government-never-changed-its-agenda-take-away/

They call this place Heaven on Earth. 

–Goot-Ges

I’m grateful and I feel like when there are things
that you are grateful for you have to work damn hard to keep them and
honour them.

–Christie Brown

I believe there is room for growth for our
people to go back and completely let go of this way of life and strengthen,
strengthen that land and that water and all the life within it.

–Goot-Ges

Goot-Ges is a Haida, Nisga’a and Tsimshian woman from the
village of skulls, Gingolx, in the Nisga’a Nation whose clan is Raven from the
house of T’tanihaulk.  She is a
land defender, freelance writer, radio producer and independent mother of
three.  In August of 2015 in
collaboration with four other Indigenous women Goot-Ges began an occupation at
Lax U’u’la, which continues to protect the island and surrounding waters from
destruction to this day.  Her work is
rooted in cultural practice: prayer, story telling and medicine as healing and
an integral aspect of resistance to ongoing colonization.  She has founded and supported countless
projects assisting her people in healing inter-generational trauma and ending
gender based violence. 

Check out
Goot-Ges’ most recent project Yakguudan, which means ‘to respect all life’ in Haida.

Christie Brown of Gitxan and Scottish descent has worked to
defend the lands, waters, salmon and lives of her people against the Northern
Gateway pipeline and Petronas’ Pacific North West LNG export facility.  Her creative forms of resistance merge the
contemporary tools at hand with the revitalization of traditional skills and
hereditary systems.  In August of 2015 in
collaboration with 4 other Indigenous women Christie organized and began an
occupation of Lax U’u’la on unceded Tsimshian territory.  Christie’s work defending Lax U’u’la, the
Flora Banks and it’s protective eelgrass and the Skeena River continues to this
day. 

Support Christie and her work
upholding Tsimshian Law to protect Lax U’u’la for future generations.

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/they-call-this-place-heaven-on-earth-goot-ges/

Seeking Support!

Good Morning Dear Ones,

Our friend Goot-Ges reached out to us last night as she is trying to get her daughter Kwiadda up to the Unist’ot’en Art camp.
Goot-Ges is an incredible land defender, healer, story-teller and Mama
and it would be incredible to get her and her daughter to the camp.  (She is also one of the participants in this book and interviews Wulf on the radio!)

  We let her know that we would share her request for support, found below.

 Please share this with your peeps and send some funds, anything helps, if you can.

 Any contributions (or prayers and messages of love) can be made by e-transfer to yakguudang@gmail.com .

 Thank you lovelies,

Beyon and Wulfgang

*********

Hello,

My name is Goot-Ges, an independent mother of
three beautiful babies. I am Nisga’a, Tsimshian, and Haida. Came to the
city for some healing, and to have some safety for me and my children.
Had some money saved up to be on this trip,or to secure a new place to
live, but had some unexpected vehicle repairs, which ended up being
double than what I could afford.

My oldest child Kwiadda is trying to make it to the Youth Art Camp at Unistoten, July 18-29th.
We are currently in Vancouver, and are looking to get back to the north
for the camp. I just finished working on a blog to outline what our
journey is, as my big project right now is Yakguudang, this translates
into Respect all life in Haida language. The vision behind Yakguudang is
to keep our coast clean from any potential oil and gas projects.
Healthy environments create healthy communities. And i believe that
social justice and environmental justice are connected. 

Our last
project with Yakguudang was stopping Naikun wind farms from developing
in Haida Waters to power WCC lng export facility being proposed for tuck
inlet in unceded Tsimshian land of Prince Rupert. That was a success,
to date no project there. If anyone can help us out in anyway, it would
be greatly appreciated.

Click here to find out how you can get involved

Thank you for your time, and anything will help us. Even a good prayer, or a message of love.

Sincerely,

Goot Ges, aka Fire Woman.