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SUMMARY:A Day of Reflection
DESCRIPTION:A Day of Reflection: Nuclear Remembrance in the Yakama Community\nTraditional Lunch + Speaker Panel + Yakama Nation Tour \nAugust 1 @ 12:00 – 4 pm PDT \nYakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center \nNchi Wana Room\n100 Spiel-yi Loop\, Toppenish\, WA 98948 \nJoin 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.  \nThe 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.  \nPilgrimage 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. \nFriday August 1\, 2025 from 12- 4 p.m. \nYou 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. \nThis event is free.  \nRSVP using the form below. \n \n\nEvent Schedule\n\n\n\n12-2:45 p.m. \nTraditional Lunch + Speaker panel \n12 p.m. Yakama Nation Invocation \n12-12:30 p.m. Traditional Lunch \n12:30-12:40 p.m. Te Martin\, song-keeper and ritual artist \n12:40-12:45 p.m Welcome + speaker intros Columbia  Riverkeeper \n12:45-1:15 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 \n1:15-1:45 p.m. Phil Rigdon\, superintendent of Yakama Nation’s Department of Natural Resources\, Brian Saluskin\, Yakama Nation Tribal Council Member and fish passage biologist. \n 1:45-2 p.m. Noah Contreras and Leilani Redheart\, the next generation of Hanford advocates \n2-2:45 p.m. Story Facilitattion with Mark Yaconelli\n\n\n2:45-4 p.m.\nTour by Yakama Nation- Learn more about the Yakama Nation living culture and Tribal efforts to sustain and nurture that culture and the environment. \nTour includes the YN Aviary and Bison Facility and YN Sturgeon facility.\n\n\n\nThis product is funded through a Public Participation Grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology. Ecology reviewed the content for grant consistency but does not necessarily endorse it.
URL:https://www.columbiariverkeeper.org/event/day-of-reflection/
LOCATION:Yakama Nation Agency Building\, 401 Fort Rd\, Toppenish\, WA\, 98948\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Meeting
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