FUTURE GENERATIONS FOR SALMON

Today we set off on day 5 of our #run4salmon journey with our children on board. Despite the climate change conditions our youngest tribal members ages 4 and 8 were adamant about joining. They are the reason we do this work and it’s their future we are fighting for. We drove down into a very low and warm dusty lake with a 100 degrees of heat and a smokey back-drop. Our hearts and lungs to see Mother Earth hurting and even though we came prepared to face this climate, our hearts hurt for the salmon and water life who don’t have N95 masks and don’t have AC boats to escape into like we do.
But we can’t keep ourselves insulated from what is happening to Mother Earth. We have to raise good children with strong hearts and show them how to follow the sacred so that no matter what happens, they will always know these lifeways and the sacred places where they can return to.

It’s a beautiful sound hearing our children yell “Run4Salmon!!!” at the top of their lungs in the middle of a lake paddling above old sacred sites and Winnemem villages that were inundated when Shasta Dam was built. We know the ancestors are happy.

#run4salmon #waterislife #futuregeneration