Se’Si’Le, an Indigenous-led nonprofit organization based in Washington State, collaborated with Salish Sea and Northern Straits Native Nations and NGOs to host an Indigenous-centered public event during Orca Action Month, on June 2024, at the Seattle Aquarium.
“All Our Relations: Tribute to the Orca” is a moving short film drawing on footage from this event and other interviews. It delivers powerful, somber and urgent narratives from regional Indigenous leaders.
The film highlights Indigenous communities’ ancient kinship with orcas and salmon, and the importance of reciprocity in our relationship with our caretaker: Mother Nature. “All Our Relations: Tribute to the Orca” includes a special focus on the Southern Resident orcas whose survival, like the survival of Indigenous lifeways here in the Pacific Northwest, depends on scha’enexw (the Salmon People).
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- Sign the petition to urge congresspeople to uphold treaty rights and protect the Salish Sea and Columbia-Snake River Basin salmon and orcas from extinction.
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A special thanks to our friends at the Save Our Wild Salmon for supporting this film. Read their original post.