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 Whiteswan Environmental

Mission

WE support community healing through the natural, cultural, & historical restoration of the Salish Sea for 7th generation sustainability as a measure of ecological health protection for all. WE envision a Coast Salish Tribal Heritage Field Institute: an Indigenous-led 13 Moon, Mountain to Sea, Reef-to-Reef, K-PhD program, 7 longhouses in the San Juan Islands, 7 longhouses in the Gulf Islands.

Whiteswan Environmental has received a Community Organizing Grant from the Peace Development Fund and all of the money raised from this fundraiser will be added to that grant to help support their organizing in 2021.  Please consider making a contribution today to support them and read more about their work below.

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Digital Mapping supports visualization and storytelling about our natural, cultural, and historical sites in the Salish Sea, bringing to life traditional uses and access. Field-to-classroom curriculum prevents the demise of knowledge as it draws from place-based traditional knowledge, bringing it into the common classroom setting. Stewardship provides community projects and events, bringing together intergenerational culture bearers and academic scientists to educate our next generation about Indigenous and Western practices. 

13 Moons Food Sovereignty is a field-to-classroom project that follows the cosmic lunar cycle to identify traditional food harvest and traditional practices, restoring health and promoting community wellness by moving from Western concepts of agriculture to regional traditional practices. Indigenous Public Health recognizes that place is where health begins: addressing root causes of trauma, supports healing through prevention, environmental stewardship, secures cultural identity, knowledge democracy, leadership, participation in society, autonomy, and upholds the inherent and acquired rights of Indigenous peoples and Nature. 

Legislative Advocacy aligns with Indigenous governance issues including Truth and Reconciliation and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Houses of Healing Houses of Learning Longhouse Restoration supports culturally safe places for Indigenous communities to teach their next generations their history, culture, governance, and language.

How is Whiteswan Environmental helping your community work toward justice through the COVID-19 pandemic?

"Whiteswan Environmental (WE) is a Native-led nonprofit that is working towards justice by creating programs that promote a thriving culture and environment in the archipelago of the Salish Sea for all people. WE are working with transboundary partners from the US and Canada who share the vision of restoring our Coast Salish village, camps, reef-net, and 13 moons food sovereignty to our ancestral homelands. WE advocate for knowledge democracy by integrating the Traditional Ecological Knowledge systems of the people who have been here since time immemorial to support social and environmental justice for all. Without Mother Earth, we do not have our health."

Website: https://www.whiteswanenvironmental.org/

Whiteswan Environmental is a participant in Grassroots Funding Week, a week-long crowdfunding campaign that supports several social justice organizations from across the country. 

Click on the links below to read about other organizations participating in Grassroots Funding Week. 

Monday: We Want Justice, Not More Jails! 

Change Comes Now - Lake Park, Florida 

Decarcerate, Inc - Little Rock, Arkansas

Human Rights Coalition - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tuesday: Housing is a Human Right 

Springfield No One Leaves - Springfield, Massachusetts 

Fund for Empowerment - Phoenix, Arizona 

Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending - Worcester, Massachusetts 

Wednesday: Healing Our Communities and Our Land  

Communities for Clean Water - Taos, New Mexico 

Whiteswan Environmental - Bellingham, Washington 

Coal River Mountain Watch - Naoma, West Virginia 

Thursday: Intersectionality is Our Power 

NNLB United - New York, New York 

Who Speaks for Me - Washington, D.C.

Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan - Detroit, Michigan 

Friday: Economic Justice For All  

Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights - Olympia, Washington

Haymarket Pole Collective - Portland, Oregon 

For more information, visit: www.peacedevelopmentfund.org 

The Peace Development Fund works to build the capacity of community-based organizations through grants, training and other resources as partners in human rights and social justice movements.