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A Day of Reflection
Photo Credit: Evan Benally Atwood
A Day of Reflection: Nuclear Remembrance in the Yakama Community
Hanford Reach Boat Tour
August 1 @ 7:30 am – 12:00 pm PDT
Vernita Boat Launch
Meeting Point:
Yakama Nation Agency Building
401 Fort Rd
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.
As part of this event, you are invited to join us on the Hanford Reach for a special boat tour with ERWM and Riverkeeper technical staff and members of the Fierce Nonviolence Pilgrimage to learn more about the Hanford Nuclear site.
We will provide transportation to and from the boat tour. Participants will be back in Toppenish in time for a free catered lunch and the speaker panel.
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Event Schedule w/ Boat tour
| 7:30 a.m. Charter Bus | Bus departs Yakama Nation Agency Building, 401 Fort Rd. Toppenish, WA at 7:45 a.m. for Vernita. |
| 8:45 a.m. | Arrive at Vernita Boat Launch |
| 9:00-11 a.m. | Guided Boat Tour of the Hanford Reach |
| 11:15 a.m. Depart Vernita | Bus returns to Yakama Nation Agency Building, 401 Fort Rd. Toppenish, WA. |
| 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. |