Here, here!
Is there really any reason to debate this? I mean, La Push is 1, that's right 1 square mile. If the Olympic National Park can't give space to this community, it would be so entirely wrong in every way imaginable.
Come on NPS - get your shit together and your priorities straight!
Today there are more than 750 members of the tribe. Learn more about the Quileure Tribe here
Come on NPS - get your shit together and your priorities straight!
In February 1889, an executive order by President Grover Cleveland established a one mile square reservation a LaPush which, at the time, had 252 inhabitants.... The tribe's lineage stretches back thousands of years to the Ice Age, making them possibly the oldest inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest. (via Forks Web)
Today there are more than 750 members of the tribe. Learn more about the Quileure Tribe here
posted by Emma Rose @ 19:25
2 Comments:
At 7:45 PM,
Karen said…
You know, I am all for saving national parks. There are folks that argue the second beach access thing is a slippery slope. . . that it would open the doors to others taking national park land for development.
But for all who have been to LaPush, we know the poverty these people are living in. And how much they love the land, and how difficult the area is to get to (it's not becoming Vegas anytime soon). So why doesn't the NPS work out some kind of deal with the tribe, even if it's juts an easement? More reservation land might allow the tribe to build, which would provide the people with some jobs.
I guess I don't know enough about the issues here to understand why this is such a fight.
At 6:32 AM,
Emma Rose said…
Yeah, I'm not really sure what the slipper slope argument is. I don't think that this negotiation with a sovereign nation over land that is historically there's would open up other avenues for developing national park land. I just don't see that as being a valid argument. It's not like if the NPS gives the tribe developable land that is not in the lowlands, we'd see some corporation come in and build apartment buildings, or a theme park or something.
There are a lot of issues at play and I think all of that is encased in the racist roots of our colonial forefathers.
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