Events

How are Indigenous culture bearers, archaeologists, and conservationists exposing the failures of current state and federal protocols for wildlife conservation, taking on the institutions and agencies tasked with preserving natural and cultural heritage, and pointing the way toward a more just and sustainable future for all?

This short film illuminates some of the deeper tensions at play in struggles to protect sacred places: a clash of irreconcilable ways of understanding and relating to the land, and what happens when the State’s perspective has been codified into federal law and the input of Tribal Nations as sovereigns is disregarded.

What if we understood fortress conservation not as the invention of patriotic nationalists in the American west, but as the renovation of a centuries-long process of primitive accumulation, where capitalist relations to land were violently imposed upon the world we share in common?

Exhibition by the House of Tears Carvers of the Lummi Nation and The Natural History Museum Kwel’ Hoy: We Draw the Line is a cross-country tour, traveling museum exhibition, and series of

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