OUR UPCOMING PRAYER WALK

We come together in NEȾEMOT (One Heart, One Mind, One Prayer, One House) for the safety and well-being of all sacred beings who live within our ŚW̱ḰENE (Salish Sea).

Since time immemorial, our W̱ILṈEW̱ EȽTÁLṈEW̱ (First Peoples) have lived with and cared for our ṮEṮÁĆES (Sacred Relatives of the deep — the Islands) and the beings of these waters. These beings, in turn, have kept their sacred promise to us and to our Creator, offering their bodies and spirits in reciprocity. Now it is our turn to uphold our promise to keep them well.

Join us in song, dance, laughter, joy, voice, ceremony, action, and prayer as we walk to protect the circle of life, the water, and all future generations. Together, we resist the proposed 500% increase in oil tanker traffic that threatens our First Peoples' sacred islands and the survival of our SĆȺNEX EȽTÁLṈEW̱ (salmon people), the KELȽOLEMEĆEN EȽTÁLṈEW̱ (killer whale people), and all who depend on these waters.

The people of our Salish Sea are rising like the tide again! To protect what we love and cherish as sacred, to stand together like the trees and lift each other up! The "each other" includes our grandchildren's grandchildren, the orca and salmon people, the tree and bird people and all the other animal people of our Salish Sea. To ensure there are no Tar-sands Oil Tankers in our Salish Sea. To stand in solidarity with Salish Sea tribes to ensure their treaty rights are honored and respected, and for other nations to have their unceded territories and natural laws honored and respected. To breach the Snake River dams to keep our sacred promises to our Salmon People. For Climate Justice, as low glacial snowpacks create shallowed, warmed rivers and estuaries that devastate our wild salmon stocks, which our Southern Resident Orcas depend upon.

This is why, on our 5th Walk for our Salish Sea, we will be making offerings to the sacred water in ceremony — please bring a container of water from your place for this sacred work.

We are the keepers of the sacred promises to care for the circle of life. We must all keep these sacred promises alive, this is why we are coming together this way.