Flights & Rights: Decolonizing Thanksgiving

 

Join former ACLU-WA Equal Justice Works Fellow Crystal Pardue (Chumash), ACLU-WA Legal Committee Chair Bree Black Horse (Seminole), Chief Seattle Club Program Director Nawiishtunmi Nightgun (Yakama/Blackfeet), and ACLU-WA Executive Director Michele Storms for a conversation about Indigenous Justice and Decolonizing Thanksgiving. Learn about Native nations' activities around food sovereignty and preservation of cultural practices, and the Indigenous-centered legal, policy, and advocacy work happening here at the ACLU-WA and across the state.

Please visit one of these Indigenous owned spots and mention the ACLU for $5 off on November 23:
Boots Bakery & Lounge (Spokane)
Off the Rez (Seattle)
Alma Mater (Tacoma) ($5 off $15 purchase)

One of the best parts of Flights & Rights? Connecting with our community – and this includes food and beverage partners across the state! Without them, there would be no Flights with our Rights!

Links shared during event:

• Native American Land Losses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZCvUroBpaE&feature=youtu.be
• Land Guide to find out whose land you are on: https://native-land.ca/
• KEXP: kexp.org
• Alma Mater (Tacoma): https://www.almamatertacoma.com/
• Boots Bakery (Spokane): https://bootsbakery.com/
• Off the Rez (Seattle): https://www.offthereztruck.com/
• Emma Noyes: https://spokanearts.org/artists/emma-noyes/
• Chief Seattle Club: https://www.chiefseattleclub.org/
• Ziontz Chestnut Law Firm – https://www.ziontzchestnut.com/
• Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton in the Native American Practice Group -- https://www.kilpatricktownsend.com/Services/NativeAmerican
• The Dawes Act: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/dawes-act.htm#:~:text=What%20was%20the%20Dawes%20Act%3F%20The%20Dawes%20Act,the%20federal%20government%20to%20break%20up%20tribal%20lands
• Land Dispossession recent study in Journal of Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe4943
• NDN Collective LANDBACK Campaign: https://ndncollective.org/ndn-collective-landback-campaign-launching-on-indigenous-peoples-day-2020/
• Colville Tribe Land Back win: http://www.tribaltribune.com/news/article_ad8a0458-4849-11ec-998e-435cf1ba130d.html
• Buffalo release story: https://ndncollective.org/ndn-collective-celebrates-buffalo-release-with-rosebud-sioux-tribes-wolakota-regenerative-buffalo-range-wildlife-sanctuary/
• Native Works: https://nativeworkscsc.org/
• Gather (film about Indigenous food sovereignty): https://gather.film/
• Amicus Brief - Earl v. City of Tacoma: https://www.aclu-wa.org/docs/amicus-brief-earl-v-city-tacoma
• Task Force 2.0 report addressing racial disparities in Washington’s criminal justice systems. https://law.seattleu.edu/centers-and-institutes/korematsu-center/initiatives/task-force-20-x24772
• Seattle Times Report: Seattle police stop Black people, Native Americans at far higher rate than white people: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/report-black-people-and-native-americans-get-stopped-by-seattle-police-at-a-far-higher-rate-than-white-people/
• Food sovereignty: http://www.indigenousfoodsystems.org/food-sovereignty
• Wahpepah's Kitchen: https://wahpepahskitchen.com/about-us
• To learn more about 'Blood Quantum': https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/09/583987261/so-what-exactly-is-blood-quantum
• Matthew L.M. Fletcher: https://www.law.msu.edu/faculty_staff/profile.php?prof=494
• Erasing the Thin Blue Line: An Indigenous Proposal: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3680899
• Seattle Indian Health Board: https://www.sihb.org/
• Mother Nation: https://mothernation.org/
• https://www.unitedindians.org/
• The Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition:  https://boardingschoolhealing.org/
• Returning National Parks to Native Tribes: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/05/return-the-national-parks-to-the-tribes/618395/
• Duwamish Tribe Native Art Market and Holiday Gift Fair – Nov. 26-28 at Duwamish Longhouse in West Seattle, great way to support the Duwamish Tribe and local Native artists!  https://www.duwamishtribe.org/events/2021/11/26/november-native-art-market-and-holiday-gift-fair
• Indigenous Solidarity Network,  Rethinking “Thanksgiving” Toolkit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Me3v2fdjIPBQVkzALHhge2K8q4bCBe7cCBvVAZ11UQc/preview?emci=0b51e807-a848-ec11-9820-c896653b26c8&emdi=3fddd341-a848-ec11-9820-c896653b26c8&ceid=332407&pru=AAABfVivEmo*kHQTsXr6c4_CYNjh7jhgnA#heading=h.ca8yt0gt432d
• Decolonizing Wealth: https://decolonizingwealth.com