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(chanting and drumming)

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(boat motor purrs)

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(seagulls call)

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(water splashes)

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-For us, everything points back to salmon.

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(boat motor purrs)

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People say the salmon are
the miners’ canary.

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Salmon were so important to my people,

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so important to the signatories

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of the treaty from Lummi 
to preserve that way of life.

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Because without salmon, 
I'm no more.

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I'm from the salmon people.

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(raindrops falling)

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(birds singing) 

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(rain falling)

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-I started working with tree kangaroos at the 
Woodland Park Zoo and learned that tree

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kangaroos are endangered
in the wild in Papua New Guinea.

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The whole goal
from the beginning was

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how do you create a sustainable
population of tree kangaroos?

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? Head, shoulders,

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knees and toes, knees and toes. 

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Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.

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Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. ? 

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(laughter and clapping) 

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(cheering)

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The YUS community,
which is an acronym

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for Yopno-Uruwa-Som watersheds 
or the rivers.

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It's a cultural term

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and it's also a political term.

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They consider themselves
YUS people.

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Part of the goal

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with the YUS
community was to make sure

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that they had the knowledge
and the understanding of

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what does it mean
to make decisions

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and protect your forests
for the long term.

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-I believe that
the best thing we can do

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for conservation is supporting
Indigenous-led conservation

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and bringing together
different Indigenous groups.

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-After getting here,
it hit me very emotional.

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I think, because it made me so happy
that people still live

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the way I lived 60 years ago.

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(singing and drumming)

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When they brought us in

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and honored us with

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traditional song and dance,

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I cried.

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And I don't know
if I was supposed to cry,

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but what an honor.

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And for me to see that
these people

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have the power and the strength

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and the pride and the ability

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to maintain their lifestyle.

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They have what a lot of us lost.

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(fire crackles)

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That's beautiful.

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So anxious to even learn
more about them.

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And I also want to share and
I've been sharing my history,

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my culture,
some of my tradition with them.

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And tomorrow
I'm going to cook with them.

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-They put on a traditional pig feast

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and traditional sing-sing,
and they went all out.

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And so Kathy could experience
all of that.

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(singing and drumming)

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-We believe everything is connected,
whether it's the air we breathe,

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the water we drink, the water
that provides us seafood,

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the plants
that give us food and medicine.

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Everything is connected.

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They asked me about
clearcutting of land

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in our home and why 
and what do I do.

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And so they were impressed that
I protest.

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So we rallied
in front of our fishing grounds

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and we said, no coal.

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And we won. We tore up their checks.

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We burned it on the site

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and we fished our traditional here.

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-People of YUS,
they own their forests,

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so they get to decide,
is it logged or is it not?

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And I think it was quite
powerful for the

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YUS people to hear her
talk about protesting, you know,

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and trying to protect her forest.

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-I'm impressed
that they own this land

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and they have a say in
what happens to this land

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so that they don't lose
what they have here today.

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I still rally.

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I travel wherever I can.

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In this, July 2013,

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we went to the Columbia River
to stop the coal from going out ...

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And I did explain to them today
that everything is peaceful.

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So you're fighting
for your rights.

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Your, what shouldn't happen to your land
or your environment.

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And I said, Yeah,
that's what I'm doing.

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(people clapping)

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-Let’s give a big, warm welcome to our 
Papua New Guinea Indigenous relatives.

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(people clapping and cheering) 

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(people clapping and cheering)

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(singing)

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-The Canoe Journey 
has been going on for centuries.

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It might not have been framed
or designed

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the way it is now in this modern time.

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It's, back in prehistoric times

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or pre-treaty times,
it might have been a potlatch.

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-And before the potlatch
there's ceremony.

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(singing)

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-We provide food
for every canoe family

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that shows up, every guest
that arrives and takes part

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in this celebration ceremony
where we all come together as

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human beings, as people from
various different cultures and

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languages spoke, songs shared, dancing.

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A coming together of communities.

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(singing) 

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-And to be able to know

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a little bit more
about what our ancestors

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would have done and to let the youth

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understand
and know a little bit more

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about how we what what we did
and what who we are.

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(camera shutter clicks)

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-We did discuss threats
before both of us. 

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We have common fights, common struggles,
and a common will to protect, to defend. 

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-Sitting out
back around the fire,

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there were lots of questions.

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You know, because to them
what they wanted to do

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to protect the culture they had,

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their questions were all about
how do they do that

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from our experience

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and where we are,
what could we advise them?

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-One of the main messages
that the Lummi representatives

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said to the YUS delegation

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was, you still have your land.

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Take care of it, protect it,

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because we lost so much
of our land and our resources.

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-We can share with them
our successes and failures

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and how we've celebrated victory

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and what it took to get to
that victory.

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We're still in that old world
and we're caught between two worlds.

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We have one foot in this world, 
but we have one foot over here

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and we want to be here, but
we have to find balance in both.

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And that's really the struggle
that we share in common with them.

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(people singing and drumming)

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(camera shutter clicks)

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-So the Papua New Guinea
wanted to do a ceremony for us

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and they wanted to use
all the regalia

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that they had brought with them
and so they had decided

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that they were going
to do a marriage ceremony.

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-And the idea was
that they wanted to solidify

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the relationship
between Lummi and YUS.

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-The marriage ceremony and

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them allowing us to see it
and be part of it

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meant that they understood

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that our culture and the things
we did are as important to us

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as what their culture is to them.

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-I can't tell you how or why,
but I know

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their presence was 
needed at that time.

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They took part in a honoring, 
a celebration, a battlecry,

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a moment when we needed them and 
their rich, deep connection to their culture,

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to their land, to their oneness 
with what we call nature.

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Being here with us
and sleeping on this land

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that we call home,
that we call Lummi, someone

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so far away, yet so closely connected 
to our way of life.

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-You can't put a price
tag on the value

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of the cultural exchange
that happened between

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the Papua New Guinea
and us here at Lummi.

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It's nothing you can get
out of a book.

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It had to happen.

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It had to happen night by night,
evolving into what it did

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to where we were
just both comfortable enough

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that we could share.

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-But these individuals
hold a special place

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in my heart that I can't
really put into words.

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But it's it's a connection
that will always be here

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in a relationship
that will never be severed.

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It's a forever relationship.

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In Indigenous communities, we
have ways of telling the story.

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They’re fighters,

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they protect,

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they’re strong,
they're resilient,

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they're survivors.

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We're still here.

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