Xaalh and the Way of the Masks

Xaalh and the Way of the Masks: Honoring Ourselves, the Lands, Waters, and Forests 2025

This campaign will bring attention to the emergent and urgent threats of the Trump Administration to indigenous lands, waters, forests, and lifeways in the Pacific Northwest.  The two-week campaign in September of 2025 will hold events in tribal communities, public venues and places of worship in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.

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PAST CAMPAIGNS

All Our Relations

All Our Relations Snake River Dams Campaign 2023

The campaign, like our campaigns in 2021 and 2022, was dedicated to the intertribal effort to bring down the Snake River dams in the Columbia River basin.  Removing the dams is crucial to the survival of the salmon and the orca populations that depend on them, for the continuity of indigenous lifeways, and for recovering the health of the Salish Sea.

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Spirit of the Waters

Spirit of the Waters 2022

The 2022 Snake River Spirit of the Waters totem pole journey built upon, strengthened and reaffirmed the growing indigenous-led environmental movement across the Pacific Northwest that began with the successful campaign to oppose proposed fossil fuels projects between 2013-2016. 

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Red Road to DC 2021 Red Road Totem Accepted by Sec Int Deb Haaland

Red Road to DC 2021

Sacred Obligations (Red Road) Totem Pole Journey to Washington, DC on May/June, 2021

A 25-foot totem pole, intricately hand-carved and painted by Native Americans, was brought to the nation’s capital after a two-week cross-country journey from Washington state, as part of a campaign to protect sacred tribal lands.

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