welcome is the great great grandson of chief seattle was from the from the nation that resides right here is ken workman so if we can get more and great great great great grandson son of chief seattle and we say this like this so that you know who we are so that when we're standing on this land that you're standing on today that when i speak these words that you know they come from the dormice and that they come from my great grandfather nations that we're working with that are going to be represented here and speak in let me nation to nation and and a lot in canada first and foremost how we do things is heaven and using how we're taught is to have our culture and our spirituality be the backbone behind all that we do and that's how i've been taught whether it's been been working in the healing field in running programs or being director of different programs i incorporated our culture and spirituality in everything i did whether was education our social services or employment training from babies to adults to people in prison to everything we took those same values and we did the same thing with our economic development took the same values and we can do it now with environment and it's so important because we're up against this brutal in canada the earthly one the movies is the same size the country of texas and the it takes two tonnes of earth to get one barrel and you know how big a barrel of oil is takes two tons of earth to get one barrel it takes three and a half barrels of water to get one barrel that's what it takes and they're getting a million barrels a day they want to triple that two to three or three million barrels a day and those owners of those pipelines are making seventy one million dollars a day that's what they're making and i was just up there yesterday i drove all day yesterday all night to be here i got i got i got i left in the morning yesterday and i got here around eleven o'clock last night and it was it was a beautiful ceremony because i was traveling with jewel james of the let me nation and he donated this huge beautiful totem pole size of these pools here and carved it and painted it just hundreds of hours of work that he put into it then he raise money to deliver it there and how we did that is he wanted to start from so to kota with our relations that are standing up against the keystone pipeline that's coming out of alberta and they did a ceremony there and they blessed it and everybody in the ceremony got there put their hands on the totem lions were big part of that as well there were the ranchers and the the cowboys and the and the indians that were their standups we get when we were there we gave them a name didn't we we this is john rimmer by the way is my so so they put blessings on the totem pole and they stopped at many villages and cities along the way and then i joined when we got to canada and sort of in victoria came to vancouver went to russia spoke jasper calgary and edmonton and that's where i had to leave because that's come back but today they put up the totem pole and it was so amazing because every stop people put in pairs and when you're driving behind the totem pole it already has a spirit or it already has a spirit not a jewel put into it but behind that total i could feel that spirit made me really emotional just just happy because you know we work so diligent and so hard to get this message out because when we started this campaign against cantor morgan nobody knew what it was nobody knew what it was now we're to the point in british columbia right where the term terminal is the first suburb out of vancouver british columbia you know to stay with a nation where we're suing canada for not consulting us with the first nations and and i believe this not not only for canadians with americans to because when people find out the true facts that to true facts of this destruction that this causes people want to make a better choice for the future generations we put that message out there to the community in vancouver and seventy one percent of of the residents support to slay with the nation and suing and that's when we come up with the true facts and this is at a time when canada gave these f companies more particularly keystone in bridgend and morgan one hundred twenty million dollars just in advertisement money alone not come the three billion dollars in subsidies not conan a carbon tax the plane tax the car tax all the taxes that they  could they could put on fossil fuel development canada comes to thirty billion dollars a year where kids are hungry teachers are on strike it's just completely backwards so when we went to sands and i'm going to have a hard time saying this i got to sit with some of the people that are very last stop one of the mothers came and she talked to my mom my mom said come over quick liste n to this story and she goes i saw you guys on the news last night and i knew i had to be here said myself and my kids are getting treated in the hospital for cancer and said i had to be here they're watching my kids and i came down and my mom said show him tonight and i asked if i could share the story with her and she said yes and we filmed her and she pulled up her sleeve of your arm and there is welts all the way up or arm and for more she pulled up her pants right from her need to her ankle was like this of of just sickness from the water and she said we can't drink the water we bottle the water to bathe her children we're having problems breathing the air she goes family are in the hospital now getting treated for cancer and it makes me think of that three thirty billion dollar subsidies that they're given makes me think of richard can during his house in texas that's making seventy one million dollars a day makes me think of those things of the of the water and the learned and everything that's getting broken everything that's getting ruined in the people are dying when we did a referendum in our community in the hall like this we did a vote we as a nation we could have said yeah ok let's negotiate kinda morgan let's take ten twenty million dollars from my nation help some of my people out of poverty that be a good thing you would think it's one hundred one percent consensus that you know we're not a rich community but we stood up against them or suing them in our court case looks good i think about it and i'm happy and when that lady stood across from me and she cried she said help me she said help me stop them please stop them and i said we are and we will with conviction with conviction we could stand here and we could see that we could say that we've been stewards of our land and protecting our land for thousands of years and we will continue to do that we had a big court decision that i get into a little bit later but you know it comes down to this it comes down to this and i was tired when i went up there and i was questioning whether i could continue this this fight new you know i'm i'm more passionate and more motivated than ever and they're not going to me our stop any of us when we come together and when we do something about this when i when i left it was really heart wrenching because the journey was so long and it was so tiring and so beautiful we'd pull in sometimes twelve o'clock at night we'd sleep maybe top five then we start getting ready with then we'd search speak and then we do all these different tours throughout the day and we they did it there on their third week now and then and is finishing today and you know what what it comes down to though it's a celebration i'm here with you guys and i wanted to be here i wanted to be here and all across the country where they touch people people are thinking the same thing we are awake enough we are waking up to the propaganda that the news because we know that the f fossil fuel companies they come in they buy the media and they buy the politicians we had a telling point just burst millions millions of tons of of sludge one into our waters in our reservoirs not only that they're not going to clean it they're go hospital waste in the in that tailing pano that's what they're going to do and we're not letting them get away with that as well we're going to stand up and do something about that but those are the kind of things that are happening right here in the united states alone three million pipelines which is about two point two million miles a pipelines here where there's twenty spills a day twenty spills a day and when i stand here and i look out here and i see how beautiful it is i see how pressured it is you know this they were two people were called the people of the in the people the water our lineage of where we come from is that water for real that's our story of creation and i love my kids they're here i love them and i would there's nothing i wouldn't do for them and i know you love somebody that good as well but what ceremony has taught me in connection to the land and water what it was taught me is that i love the land and i love the water and i love where i come from which is that lineage of that water says people of the water people the end ceremonies that we have and if you have any religious belief i know you believe the same thing because some use candles some use incense we  it's the same message it's those fundamentals of humanity that will go by and want to make a difference and want to make a change want to make something better and protect what we love so it's easy for me to make a decision that i'm going to protect it like i love and protect my kids and do anything for them and essentially we're doing it for them and my kids tell me see i had a beautiful conversation on the drive here they're going to do something in the high schools to start educating people right here we don't feel about uncle phil and i we travel lot around the world and it's evident that what's going on is it's affecting them in their communities because when we go to the grocery store they only have half the food on their shelves panama i think was eight am right they shut the city down or eight pm b they shut the city down so people could discourage them from using water water shortages in panama there is and that's why they're standing up and they're doing something right away is because they feel the effects but here we're lucky because we don't see that yet but if you know or two months ago nasa came up with their study and they said it's mean five to ten years we're going to find over water for and over food and who's going to suffer i tell you it's not those guys that are making seventy one billion seventy one million dollars a day us the people are learned in our water but anyway are there we have a lot of great speakers and i just wanted to share why we're here we're kicking off for a temp in for washington state we're going to kick it off so we can continue that the residents here once they're educated properly not by the b s that they see on the news who is owned by the same people who want some of the possible companies they can look at how c n n fox news they do things like van jones got a show on there and i said cool i get to watch him and jones used to be this are for obama that's great first off i am so grateful that you're here thank you for being here thank you for making it possible for there to be an us that recognizes what's right and we're birthing this beautiful coast word that means one house one heart one prayer united in power to protect the sacred that's what we're here to do today and that means we need to get to know each other phil said yes we have to do a handshake circle so this idea of unprecedented unified action you can imagine me from the brooklyn jewish try what a privilege and honor what a privilege and honor it is to work with ruben and phil and so many of you there in this room so we need to come to know each other we can't stay separate this unity is the worst thing and we have a moment today to ignite something like we've never done before and that's what we saw in south dakota when the new cia right in front of us imagine a room full of ranchers and farmers on the second day got to speak to a room full of first nations and native americans and the ranchers were standing up and shouting that the government's going to take their land they will let that happen a roomful of first nation native americans like wait a minute guys right and this one woman said it's so bad it's so bad not so much out the other treat know like indians and orval looking horse goes up to her and shakes her hand and says welcome to the truck all right so fill it first off i just can't introduce hereditary chief elaine jr without recognizing the incredible significance of his presence here the c e o of united indians of all nations to for so many years is working with bernie white bear his teaching his eldership his wisdom his love of his father and his mother he teaches me and all of us half a day i feel i ask that you come up and share with us how we do a hand with deborah parker deborah from the vice chair of the many tears and so many prayers are going into in this entire area that we are so blessed to be able to look out and see the beautiful day around us and get up during the year enjoying the beautiful rain and everything and travel up through europe country of further north that for those who would like to ask those relatives from the first stations that touch this land if you stand up for a moment just stand up wherever you might so for some people the term sailors see is not a familiar turner so one of the things we're looking to dissolve in this conversation is the artificial political boundaries of canada and united states in washington and british columbia let's be clear climate knows no borders oil doesn't know any borders and this sailor sea which is a united space that we happen to have the privilege of being in has representatives of many tribes here that we want to have a chance to speak ok so i'm going to have the good fortune to introduce deborah parker who is a member of the board of the tribe she's a scholar she's a graduate of university of washington many know her because of her work with the vala the violence against women act she made sure i happen got reinstated again she's a remarkable leader mother of five beautiful children so we want to hear from the two look nation and it gives me great privilege and pleasure to introduce good afternoon my traditional name is and i come from the people the people i am an enrolled member of the tulalip tribes and i currently have the honor of serving my tribe as one of our female leaders and i it's such a humbling experience but it's also one of the most difficult positions to hold because as some of you in this room know that we are constantly fighting on behalf of our environment on behalf of our traditional language on behalf of the the wind the for link it we are constantly fighting on behalf of our children and we look not only today but we look at seven generations and as our chairman stated last week beyond seven generations now we have a real crisis happening and i believe that's why each and every one of you are here today so i i want to begin by honoring you for being in this room please give yourself a round of a and i believe you're all in this room because you're an activist you don't believe in sitting at home i write this in the air it was such an honor to be here with you each and every one of you here today i see a lot of my good friends and relatives who i know have been at many of vents and i just want to honor john raymer here who is one of the seas and ruben george i know he's been traveling across the world tossed so my message i'd like to share with each and every one of you here today is a message i shared in north dakota yesterday as a matter of fact i caught my flight back to it's a message of the the woman nation it's a message that i've learned from my grandmothers my great grandmother's their great grandmother's many generations back we are the life givers and there is a role that we have in our society in our community in that role is not only the opportunity to give life to our children but it's also a role that we need to be leaders in our community and protect our community so for each and every one of you life givers it's not just protecting our children and putting food food on the table but my question would be what kind of food are you going to put on the table if we have coal trains going across the country which and if we start to look at big business and oil companies and degrading of the land what kind of food are we going to feed her children but i ask you to go the steps deeper than just feeding our own babies what about the creatures what about our brothers and sisters in the sea what about the birds that come down and scoop and get their meals for the water they need fresh food as well nation here today his relatives the relatives of the dead people are still hold people and all of our ancestors who had theirs their long houses across the waters here those are our people and so now we have a greater community and i like that the thought of unified action because yes we have to come together the mouse the females we have to come together there's traditional roles that we hold not just issue woman i'm sharing these teachings with you and i'm asking you to take some of your teachings because some of that is is to protect the land it should be inherent in each and every one of us should be inherent and when you teach your children to do you give thanks each and every day for that food on the table and so today i'm grateful that we're not here to forget we're here to remember thanks so with each moment which with each breath my hope and my prayer for each and every one of you is true members some of those teachings and i'm so grateful that you have a lot of good speakers here today some very passionate very very caring people who are here today to remind you to remind me i'm here to you because i need my spirit fed we all need our spirit fed and so that's why i'm here today and i'm grateful my children they got up early because they know they want to be here they wanted to speed their spirits and i'm going to ask them to come forward and share just a couple words because they have strong medicines they're looking at me like mom are you kidding me but i'm serious and  you know it is for all you parents out there in your driveway and in the car with your kids at some of the best time to talk to your kids because there's no t v they're not their bedrooms video games so i'm going to ask my daughter first to come forward her name her tradition  is holly and this is what we did not all times when i was younger there's elders who they took me to the microphone to see if i was listening and so i'm going to see if my daughter is listening and i know she has been  like her just to share a few words with each and every one of you because she travels most weekends to fight on behalf of the environment and she takes me with her a little unexpected i know this is part of our teachings that we get we all she's doing really is i'm happy i'm coming up here because she's passing down the lessons when she was my age she tells me the stories of how her elders and her mother and my grandparents her mom and dad they would bring her to events and they would make her speak they'd be like what are you doing don't be sitting down you have to go up there and talk this is this is your land this is like this is our teachings you have to go up there you have to help like you're young so i'm glad and now she's passing on the role to me to protect the environment i