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GREEN COLONIALISM MARCHES ON

I am a 70-year-old enrolled Yakama and Wenatchapam on my maternal grandmother’s side. I remember the “Fish Wars” on the Columbia River as a youth, and relatives hunting elk on ceded lands and getting arrested for exercising treaty

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