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A Day of Reflection
Photo Credit: Evan Benally Atwood
A Day of Reflection: Nuclear Remembrance in the Yakama Community
Traditional Lunch + Speaker Panel + Yakama Nation Tour
August 1 @ 12:00 – 4 pm PDT
Yakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center
Nchi Wana Room
100 Spiel-yi Loop, Toppenish, WA 98948
Join Columbia Riverkeeper and Yakama Nation’s Environmental Restoration Waste Management Program as we host the Fierce Nonviolence Pilgrimage on their journey to a nuclear-free world.
The Fierce Nonviolence Pilgrimage is an immersion training program in nonviolent social change for young adults. Traveling from the Midnight Mine in Spokane to the Hanford Nuclear Site near Richland, to the Trident Base in Seattle, participants will learn the history, strategies, and spirituality of nonviolent action, and leave with tools for social change they can bring home to their own communities.
Pilgrimage participants will hear powerful stories from communities impacted by the U.S. nuclear arsenal, including members of the Spokane Tribe of Indians, the Yakama Nation, the Marshallese community, and a hibakusha from Hiroshima. While exploring the beautiful landscape of the Pacific Northwest, the group will reflect on its desecration by nuclear weapons, as well as how to chart a different course towards peace and healing.
Friday August 1, 2025 from 12- 4 p.m.
You are invited to join this event for a traditional lunch and speaker panel, as well as a tour of the Yakama Nation. Panel speakers will include: Norimitsu Tosu, an 83 year-old atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima; Fumi Tosu the founder of Dandelion House Catholic Worker community in Portland, OR. He is a second-generation hibakusha (atomic weapon survivor), and long-time nonviolent activist; Phil Rigdon, superintendent of Yakama Nation’s Department of Natural Resources, Brian Saluskin, Yakama Nation Tribal Council Member and fish passage biologist and Noah Contreras and Leilani Redheart, the next generation of Hanford advocates. The Tour will include a look at Yakama Nation’s Aviary, Bison, and Sturgeon Facilities, learn more about the Yakama Nation living culture and Tribal efforts to sustain and nurture that culture and the environment.
This event is free.
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Event Schedule
| 12-2:45 p.m. | Traditional Lunch + Speaker panel 12 p.m. Yakama Nation Invocation 12-12:30 p.m. Traditional Lunch 12:30-12:40 p.m. Te Martin, song-keeper and ritual artist 12:40-12:45 p.m Welcome + speaker intros Columbia Riverkeeper 12:45-1:15 p.m. Norimitsu Tosu, an 83 year-old atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima; Fumi Tosu the founder of Dandelion House Catholic Worker community in Portland, OR. He is a second-generation hibakusha (atomic weapon survivor), and long-time nonviolent activist 1:15-1:45 p.m. Phil Rigdon, superintendent of Yakama Nation’s Department of Natural Resources, Brian Saluskin, Yakama Nation Tribal Council Member and fish passage biologist. 1:45-2 p.m. Noah Contreras and Leilani Redheart, the next generation of Hanford advocates 2-2:45 p.m. Story Facilitattion with Mark Yaconelli |
| 2:45-4 p.m. | Tour by Yakama Nation- Learn more about the Yakama Nation living culture and Tribal efforts to sustain and nurture that culture and the environment. Tour includes the YN Aviary and Bison Facility and YN Sturgeon facility. |
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