#Sinixt

[wachinyeya]

For thousands of years, Kettle Falls was a vital salmon fishing ground for the Sinixt, but early 20th-century dam construction blocked salmon migration.

Wrongfully declared extinct in Canada in 1956, the Sinixt fought for recognition and were officially acknowledged as Aboriginal Peoples of Canada in 2021.

In 2023, the U.S. government signed a $200 million agreement with a coalition of tribes, including the Sinixt, to fund an Indigenous-led salmon reintroduction program into the Columbia River system above dams in Washington.

Sinixt leaders say this project is an important effort to help right a historical wrong in the legacy that led to their “extinction” status, while many hope to one day join salmon efforts on their traditional territory in Canada.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A cross-border tribe is seeking funding and recognition from the Canadian government one month after opening an office in British Columbia.

In late October, the Sinixt Confederacy — part of the Washington-headquartered Colville Confederated Tribes — established itself on the second floor of a small building in Nelson, B.C.

Sinixt considers itself a transboundary tribe with rights in both the U.S. and Canada but until recently, didn’t formally exist in Canada. The Sinixt were deemed “extinct” by the government in 1956 but two years ago, that changed when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the Sinixt Confederacy an “Aboriginal people of Canada.”

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[bumblebeeappletree]

As climate chaos increases around the world, Michelle Week, a farmer outside of Portland Oregon is drawing on her Sinixt indigenous knowledge to adapt her farm to the changing seasons. By practicing techniques like seed saving and dry farming, Michelle is combating the increasing food security crisis while continuing to provide fresh food to her local community.

[flufftopiamailpidgeons]

Is it wrong to be desperate to cling to the colonized version of your culture? Of what little you could reach? Am I a monster for wanting to know what it's like for my great aunt and her children on the Rez because it's the closest thing I feel I'm ever going to get to going home?

I want to go home

[asexxxualauthor]

Subject No. 073BT: The Skulking Hulk

Subject Details:

Name: Takadox Species: Unknown Previous Affiliation: Barraki Designation: Tank and Close-Range Attacker Abilities: Hypnosis, Elemental Control (Water)

073BT—given name "Takadox"—first incarcerated following defeat at the hands of the Toa Mahri. Was released and conscripted to aid in missions during the war against Makuta Teridax, however continual and deliberate betrayals led to second incarceration and subjection to continually more harsh exposure to mutagen.

Results of exposure have left 073BT with a far more bulky and physically powerful form—conscription to Project SFX in response has been approved. In addition to physical mutations including additional bladed limbs on posterior, exposure to mutagen appears to have given 073BT some control over water.

073BT has a history of treason and betrayal—application of inhibitor chip strongly required.

[your-mentally-ill-vampire]

Fanart for @mikeyspuppy and @mx-sinixter. Not my best work, but it was nice to draw something quick to get out of art block. Hope y'all like it. It's based of their profile pictures and one of the photos they've posted.

[rabbitcruiser]

Wells Dam Rest Area And Information Center, WA (No. 2)

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: Wimahl or Wimal; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river forms in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state of Oregon before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. The river is 1,243 mi (2,000 km) long, and its largest tributary is the Snake River. Its drainage basin is roughly the size of France and extends into seven states of the United States and one Canadian province. The fourth-largest river in the United States by flow, the Columbia has the greatest flow of any river into the eastern Pacific and the 36th greatest discharge of any river in the world.

Source: Wikipedia

[bandnameserver]

Sinixter

[storiesandorigami]

The Frog (#5)

The frog holds diverse and significant meanings in various Native American cultures, often symbolizing rebirth, renewal, regeneration, and transformation. In Hopi and Pueblo tribes, the frog is specifically associated with these themes. Some tribes also consider the frog as a messenger from the spirit world, linking it to spiritual communication and insight. In one of the stories called, "Swarak'xn Chaptikwl- The Frog Mountain Story", the narrative centers on an Elder, a revered leader who deeply cares for his people and their well-being. Observing the suffering caused by the drought, he encourages the villagers to leave their homes to survive, organizing the preparation for their departure. Unbeknownst to the villagers, the Elder decides to stay behind, unable to leave the land of his ancestors.

As the villagers prepare to leave, they plead with the Elder to join them, but he remains steadfast in his decision to stay. He believes his place is with the land of his ancestors, a land imbued with his heart and memories. Despite the villagers' sorrow at leaving the Elder behind, they recognize the need for some to journey onward for the survival of their people.

In a turn of events, the Elder, while praying for guidance, is visited by a frog who advises him to have the remaining villagers dig caves along the riverbank to spend the winter. This work gives the villagers a sense of hope and purpose, although the Elder worries these caves might eventually serve as their graves due to the scarcity of food.

Remarkably, during the harsh winter, frogs begin to enter the caves, offering themselves as food for the villagers. This act of sacrifice allows the villagers to survive the winter. At the end of the season, a frog visits the villagers with a message of hope, declaring that their suffering is over and the land will become bountiful again. In a symbolic gesture, the frog transforms into a mountain, representing the power and significance of even the smallest creatures in nature and leaving a lasting symbol for the Sinixt People to honor.

[sendmebacktomysecondlife]

WIFE! DO NOT READ PLS!!

This is going to sound so stupid, but I want to help my wife.

My wife is Sinixt on her mom’s side. Sinixt is a Native American tribe that is almost entirely gone. Her family has been whitewashed her and refused and still refuses to tell her anything about their culture. My wife knows nothing, beside one or two words from a language PDF she was able to download. She has never met another Sinixt person, and often feels entirely alone in her identity as a part Sinixt person.

How does all this correlate to me wanting to help her? I want to help her find Sinixt people for her to talk to. She told me about the only reservation she’s ever heard of for the Sinixt being in Washington [the state] somewhere. If you are Sinixt, know someone Sinixt, please reach out, please. My wife also uses tumblr [hence the title] so I can direct you to her blog, but at the end of the day I want her to feel less alone in this whole thing.

Thank you for any help you give.

[asexxxualauthor]

Subject No. 071BE: The Winged Stinger

Subject Details:

Name: Ehlek Species: Unknown Previous Affiliation: Barraki Designation: Quick Fire Melee Attacker Abilities: Elemental Control (Lightning, Wind)

071BE—given name “Ehlek”—first incarcerated following defeat at the hands of the Toa Mahri. Was held in solitary confinement until arrival on Sphereus Magna—was released to aid in conflict against the forces of Makuta under the false promise of freedom.

Following Makuta Teridax’s defeat, 071BE was incapacitated and conscripted for Project SFX, undergoing continually more harsh exposure to mutagen. 071BE’s physiology seems to allow him better resilience to the substance—despite numerous trials, he retained most of his base appearance, only growing an additional set of pygmy limbs and wing-like fins on back. Mutations also seem to have given 071BE some control over wind.

071BE is quiet and aloof—application of inhibitor chip not required but suggested as safety measure.

[nomoreloveontherun]

The most correct opinion I seen! But seriously if we hear them next episode in the intro saying “Previously on the X-men” I will actually lose it. The creator has to been building up with something with all this tension going on.

For me I think Sinixter or Bastion guy might do some serious blackmail seeing how in the intro we see them struggling fighting Sinixter cackling at them like the bastard he is (Also if Sinixter the one who out Morph feeling towards Wolverine I’m going to be on the news)

Wait

From things, I heard of this episode, it is Wolverine x Storm taking place in an alternate future. But like-Storm currently with Forge. And it be really weird to split up a potential pairing after their build-up in life-death.(Beside, Wolverine and Storm haven't interacted that much in the 97 show)

And the only potential pairing is possible Jean or holy shit

MORPH

[fatehbaz]

[Caption:] Virginia Redstar, center, with the River Warrior Society sings as she joins Colville Confederated Tribe members and supporters at the Boundary-Waneta Border Crossing [US-Canada, Washington-British Columbia border] in support of Rick Desautel's case in the Canadian Supreme court arguing for the Sinixt peoples' right to hunt traditional lands in Canada on Thursday, October 8, 2020, near Northport, Wash. [...]. [T]o challenge a Canadian declaration 60-years-ago that the Sinixt people were extinct. [...]

They got as close they could on Thursday afternoon [8 October 2020].

In a caravan of cars and trucks, they travelled north of Northport, to a bluff overlooking both the Columbia River and the Boundary-Waneta Border Crossing that wouldn’t let them – or anyone else from the United States – cross into Canada. They came with a simple message, but one that’s central to their existence and identity. “We’re still here,” Annette Peone told the crowd of mostly tribal members.

Many of them belong  to the Confederated Tribe of the Colville Indians, and a number are  descendants of the Sinixt. That tribe’s members once moved freely across this landscape, far into what is now British Columbia, into a country that  considers them officially extinct.

It’s a declaration their presence at the border was meant to pointedly contradict. And it’s a declaration that one of their fellow tribal members, Rick Desautel – a Sinixt descendant who belongs to what’s now known as the Lakes Tribe of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indians – objected to in a different way earlier the same day. Some 2,400 miles away,  in Ottawa, Ontario,  Mark Underhill, Desautel’s lawyer, argued a case in the Supreme Court of Canada that began 10 years ago this month [October 2020]. [...]

Those tensions had been forming since at least 1811, when the British explorer David Thompson encountered members of the band while passing through the Arrow Lakes. They mounted throughout  the 19th  century, as many of the Sinixt people who survived colonization were pushed from their homeland  south to the Colville Reservation. There, they and 11 other tribal bands were allotted 2,100 square miles of land wedged between the Columbia and Okanogan rivers to share.

When just 21 Sinixt were counted north of the border in the early 1900s, they and other area Indigenous people were granted a reserve for what the Canadian government called the Arrow Lakes Band.

After the last known member of that band died in 1956, the Canadian government declared the tribe legally extinct. But their descendants were very much alive in Washington, and remained deeply connected to the lands north of the border where their ancestors had lived .

[Caption:] Yvonne L. Swan stands with Colville Confederated Tribe members and supporters during a gathering at the Sharpening Stone [...] on Thursday, October 8, 2020, near Kettle Falls, Wash. [...]

Colville Confederated Tribe members and supporters gather at the Boundary-Waneta Border Crossing in support of Rick Desautel's case in the Canadian Supreme court arguing for the Sinixt peoples' right to hunt traditional lands in Canada on Thursday, October 8, 2020, near Northport, Wash. [...]

Linda Desautel, center in white, looks skyward and cheers with friends and Colville Confederated Tribe members as they rally [...]. [The] case in the Canadian Supreme court arguing for the Sinixt peoples' right to hunt traditional lands in Canada was first heard on Thursday, October 8, 2020

When plans for a new road threatened the remains of those ancestors in the late 1980s, Lakes members returned to their traditional homeland and helped form a blockade to stop the project near Vallican, which is home to a number of [...] sites containing the history and legacy of Sinixt culture.

The case has already been subject to a trio of provisional verdicts, one from a trial judge in Nelson, B.C., and two from appeals to that initial ruling. All of them ruled in favor of Desautel’s argument that he was “exercising his aboriginal right to hunt in the traditional territory of his Sinixt ancestors,” as Judge Lisa Mrozinski wrote in her 2017 judgement. [...]

While Her Majesty the Queen v. Richard Lee Desautel is narrowly about whether some 3,000 people have a right to hunt in a relatively remote part of British Columbia, the implications for not only the Lakes Tribe but also other Indigenous people with historical connections to Canada could be far-reaching. [...]

The effort by the Crown – that is, the Canadian government – to continue challenging that finding to the nation’s highest court is indicative of how much is at stake.

And he noted that the Crown has been vested in appealing the case because “they have taken the view that this would be precedent setting and would set the stage for other tribes.”

In its filings to the Supreme Court, the Crown’s lawyers made just that argument, claiming that “affirming that Indigenous groups located in the US are ‘aboriginal peoples of Canada’ enjoying a constitutionally protected Aboriginal right to hunt in Canada would mean that such groups may, in principle, hold constitutionally protected Aboriginal title to Canadian soil, too.”

That means “not only site-specific rights like the right to hunt, but also rights to the land itself,” the filings state. [...]

That could mean the Canadian government will have to consult with the Lakes Tribe on hydropower and pipeline projects, for example. And it may mean even more: that they have rights to land in Canada.

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Headline, photos, captions, and all text published by: Ted McDermott. [Photos by Tyler Tjomsland.] “’We’re still here’: Colville tribal member’s long battle against declaration of extinction reaches Canadian Supreme Court.” The Spokesman-Review. 11 October 2020.

Map of traditional Sinixt land, from Sinixt Nation online portal:

More info about the Sinixt case.

[dailyhistoryposts]

“Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.”

–Mourning Dove | Christine Quintasket | Hum-ishu-ma (1888-1936) 

[allthecanadianpolitics]

I'm not sure if you've mentioned this or not. I may have missed it, but the B.C court of appeals upheld a Sinixt man's rights to hunt in Canada. This may not sound like a big deal but the Sinixt people of the Sinixt Nation in B.C were declared "extinct" in the 50's despite the Sinixt people not actually being extinct at all, they were pushed off of their lands in Canada.

Here’s an article about it:

B.C. Appeal Court says American Indigenous man has right to hunt in Canada