June 13th - Orcas Island, WA - 5pm-7pm
Orcas Center
917 Mt. Baker Road

What is it?

The Seven Sisters Campaign empowers and elevates the leadership of Indigenous women whose work confronts the intertwined crises of biodiversity loss, climate disruption, and environmental injustice. By centering Indigenous knowledge, relational responsibility, and long-term stewardship, the campaign mobilizes communities toward collective action, ecological restoration, and a renewed commitment to caring for future generations.

Evening Agenda

4:30 Doors Open

5:00 Opening Song (Chenoa Egawa) Procession of the Seven Sisters

5:10  Words of Welcome: Lhaq’temish Homeland (Raynell Morris )

5:20  Audience Visualization: Embracing the Water (Chenoa Egawa)

5:35  Empathy and the Art of Deep Relationalities (Cyaltsa Finkbonner and Fiorella De La O.)

5:55  Sisters in a “HerstoryTelling” Round (Raynell Morris and Robin Lovelace)

6:15  Homecoming through Community (Marilene Silva)

6:30 Tribute to All Our Relations (Seven Sisters with the Audience)

6:45  Words from the Witnesses (Eva Schulte and Lisa Dabek)

6:55  Closing Hysh Sii’em Song (Seven Sisters)

7:00  End

The Sisters

Raynell Morris (Lummi Tribe) is a lifelong Salish Sea and Indigenous Sovereignty Advocate, Senior Manager for Children of the Setting Sun Productions, former Manager of the Lummi Nation’s Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office, the subject of numerous documentaries, and served in the Clinton Whitehouse. Raynell is a cancer survivor.

Cyaltsa Finkbonner  (Lummi Tribe) is a multimedia artist, welder by trade, an experienced fisherman, a partner of Northwest Artists Against Extinction, and serves on the Board of Directors for Se’Si’Le. She is a lifelong advocate for our Mother Earth, the Salish Sea and our cultural ways of connection and expression.

Robin Lovelace (Tlingit and Tagish, Alaska), Shuwátinée, also known as Kitchkashi , is a transboundary Tlingit artist of the Wolf Moiety, Yanyedi Clan of the Taku River, and a grandchild of Deisheetaan with roots extending from Angoon, Alaska to the interior. Born and raised in the North with ancestral relations across Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory, she serves as a cultural archivist, researcher, and counselor for her First Nation. Her work is deeply grounded in haa shagóon and her responsibilities to the land, sea, and sky.

Chenoa Egawa (S’Klallam/Lummi Tribes) comes from a long line of caretakers of Mother Earth. She is a ceremonial leader, medicine carrier, singer, speaker, published author, artist and nature photographer. She has traveled throughout North and South America working with Indigenous communities to protect their cultural and spiritual lifeways. She is also an accomplished Senior Level Qigong Instructor.

Marilene Silva Kaikuxipa (Macuxi Tribe, Brazil) grew up among her people, known as the Guardians of the Savannas. She came to the Lummi Nation as a young girl at the request of her uncle and the invitation of the Lummi tribal Member Jewell James. Now a mental health therapist in Bellingham, Washington, Marilene aims to transform the oppressive ways of the mental health industry and provide wellness services that are relevant to Indigenous and other minoritized communities in their pursuit of community and collective healing. Her work is guided by sovereignty, relational accountability, and the belief that healing is both personal and collective, an act of liberation for communities.

Fiorella De La O. (Quechua of the Andes and the Amazon) is an environmental conservationist and artist who has supported the care of land, water, and wildlife from a young age. She is known for her deep care for animals and the natural world, and for the way she connects with both. Her work continues through science and art, supporting Indigenous-led efforts and helping others reconnect with the natural world.

The Witnesses

Eva Schulte is the Executive Director of the Friends of the San Juans.

Lisa Dabek is the Senior Conservation Scientist at the Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle) and works with indigenous communities in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.