Celilo Wyam News Today

  Image via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_hand.svg Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney hosts this show featuring audio excerpts from an April conference on “Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations, and Environmental Justice,” sponsored by Washington State University Vancouver Native Programs and the Collective for Social and

As a follow up to our May 22 show, we hear the second half of a reading by Celilo Wy-am activist Lana Jack, Celilo Wyam activist from her short memoir “We are Here: The Story of the Celilo Wy-am is one of mourning, resilience and resistance,” which appears in the Spring edition of Oregon Humanities. Jack’s story homes in on the ongoing criminalization of Native fisher people

Freedom of Expression/Limitations/Censorship: Image courtesy of Max Pixel and licensed under Creative Commons Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which features the following segments:

  Julian Ankney hosts this week’s show and brings audio from the April 21st and 22nd virtual WSU conference on “Native Sovereignty, Decolonization, Divestment, Reparations, and Environmental Justice: Constructing Coalitions at the Intersections,” interwoven with music from an all-Native line up of artists.

Depleted salmon runs and the federal government’s failure to improve fishing sites had already impacted important harvests; now, COVID is making it even harder for Native Americans to fish along the Columbia River. *This story originally appeared on Underscore.news