Ancestral Lands Movement Celebrates Anniversary
The Snoqualmie Tribe is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Ancestral Lands Movement. The Ancestral Lands Movement seeks to spread awareness of the Snoqualmie people who have lived in the southern Salish Sea region since time immemorial and share the significance of these lands and provide information on how people can help the Tribe in respecting, restoring, and protecting these lands.
Recreational Impacts on Tribal Lands
As the Salish Sea region has grown in population, the Snoqualmie Tribe's ancestral lands have been heavily impacted by recreation. This impact is especially apparent at the popular trails in the Snoqualmie corridor area, where increased visitation has resulted in a degradation of the land.
How You Can Help:
Here are simple steps everyone can take while recreating on Snoqualmie ancestral lands to practice respect and help the Tribe in protecting and restoring these lands for generations to come:
• Treat the lands with the respect they deserve, by picking up your own trash, and properly disposing of pet waste, and staying on designated trails.
• Commit to experience the lands in a way that is centered in mindfulness, rather than conquest.
• Learn more about the Snoqualmie Tribe and its history and deep connection to these lands, and support the work the Tribe does today to continue stewarding these lands.
• Acknowledge that you are recreating on Snoqualmie ancestral lands through both written acknowledgement and through practice. • Help the Tribe spread its message by encouraging others to learn more and practice land acknowledgement both on and off the trails.
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Acknowledge that I am on the Indigenous Land of Coast Salish peoples who have reserved treaty rights to this land, specifically the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe (sdukwalbixw). I thank these caretakers of this land who have lived and continue to live here since time immemorial.
For more information, please see this four-minute presentation posted on the Tribe’s YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C880wuH8Uoo