A totem pole carved and put on tour to bring attention to the potential risks fossil fuel pipeline and shipping terminal projects present Native American communities, and how climate change threatens the world at large, made a stop in Vancouver Monday night. The pole is a symbol of tribal resistance to the oil terminal project proposed at the Port of Vancouver, the Millennium Bulk Terminals coal export proposal in Longview and the methanol refinery proposed for Kalama by Northwest Innovation Works, according to Columbia Riverkeeper, an environmental organization that helped organize Monday’s event. Guests came to the Vancouver Public Library and joined a blessing and a presentation about the project. Jewell James, head carver with the House of Tears Carvers group and part of the Lummi Treaty and Sovereignty Protection Office, said the totem poles are a means to protest and to raise awareness for different causes. Lummi Nation members are traveling across the with the totem pole to draw attention to proposed fossil fuel export terminals, pipelines and other facilities and their potential environmental impacts. “We can’t do it alone, so we had to figure out a way to draw the attention of churches, citizens groups, environmental groups and other tribes, and so we developed the totem pole journeys, started advocating that all of us have to work together,” he said. The tour stops at the Ecotrust Building in Portland today, and finishes Oct.
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Mon, 10/16/2017 - 8:44pm
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