Events

The Badger-Two Medicine is the sacred homeland of the Blackfeet Nation. It is home to their creation story, and has been a place of refuge and healing for 10,000 years. This virtual event will tell the story of the Badger-Two Medicine and the decades-long struggle to protect it, not only as an important wildlife sanctuary, but also as an intermediary to Blackfeet spiritual power.

From the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Bears Ears National Monument, sacred Indigenous lands across the country are in the sightlines of oil companies, whose relentless pursuit of new oil and gas reserves endanger the traditions, ways of life, and religious practices of local communities.

The 2021 version of Kwel’ Hoy was launched to conclude the Red Road to DC: a totem pole journey for the protection of sacred places under threat from dams, climate change, and resource extraction.

Since time immemorial, the salmon have been sacred to the identities, traditions, and cultural lifeways of Alaska Native peoples. Today, both the salmon and the people that steward them are imperiled by the toxic effects of mineral extraction and industrial logging, and impacted communities are fighting back.