Women Senators, Tribal Leader Discuss Importance of VAWA

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WA Senators have provided great leadership, as has Tulalip Vice-Chair Deborah Parker. Time for a thank you phone call, plus a call to your US Representative — their deliberation comes next. Pass VAWA with tribal provisions intact!

from Deborah Parker-
Attn. friends, family and VAWA supporters: We need your help! ON MONDAY, please call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask the operator to connect you to your Senator (or call as many key Senators as possible). When you’re connected to their offices, ask to speak to the staff person who handles VAWA. Tell
them:

“Today is an important day, the Senator has the chance to protect all women, including Native women. It’s time to be a hero and pass a comprehensive VAWA – S.47 – including the tribal provisions and I urge
the Senator to vote NO on the Coburn Amendment. I urge you to support the Murkowski and Leahy Amendments.”

THANK YOU for helping us advance the protections of Native women across the Country. Your support is appreciated.

Back to the River

“Everyone needs a healthy watershed. It’s not just the Nisqually who need salmon, clean water, flood protection it’s everyone.”
-Georgiana Kautz (Nisqually Tribe)

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Buffy Sainte-Marie at Idle No More rally at MB Legislature

Buffy Sainte-Marie at Idle No More rally at MB Legislature
Hundreds were on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature Jan. 28th for an Idle No More rally that included Buffy Sainte-Marie. The evening ended with a round dance that stretched around the drive way of the Legislature and the statue of Queen Victoria.

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International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects Signing Ceremony

Kate Elliott on KAOS this coming Sunday at 5pm, Jan.27th


Kate Elliott Bio

Tantoo Cardinal on Make No Bones About It.

Tantoo Cardinal (Metis) this Sunday, 1-13-2013 at 4pm

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Tantoo Cardinal (Metis) is one of the most renowned Indigenous actors in the world.

Throughout her acting career Tantoo has done much to minimize the inaccuracies and stereotypical portrayals of Indigenous people that tend to infect mainstream media, bringing instead genuine warmth and understanding to her very human characters. The confines of acting in someone else’s story have lead Tantoo to take the courageous step of writing her own stories, and she has remembered what it was she wanted to do before acting just “came along”.

We watch and listen as Tantoo reads from a short story she has written. . It is moving, funny and passionate writing, and easily conjures the images, sounds, textures and flow of the story in the mind’s eye of the listener. It is visual storytelling.

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Chairman Brian Cladoosby of the Swinomish Tribe on KAOS 89.3 FM

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Chief Theresa Spence shares with us on Make No Bones About It.