‘Thriving Peoples, Thriving Places’

 
Source: Real Change; Deb Abrahamson is a member of the Spokane Tribe, an environmental activist and a water protector who played a large part in the push to clean up the legacy of uranium mining on the Spokane Indian Reservation; Abrahamson died of cancer in January 2020, attributing her illness to the radioactive toxins that she had dedicated her life to saving others from. | Twa-le Abrahamson-Swan is a member of the Spokane Tribe, an environmental activist and the executive director of the River Warrior Society, a collective across the Coeur d’Alene, Colville, Kalispel, Nez Perce and Spokane tribes; Abrahamson-Swan refocused the collective’s energies on providing pandemic and wildfire relief; she is Deb Abrahamson’s daughter.

Source: Real Change; Deb Abrahamson is a member of the Spokane Tribe, an environmental activist and a water protector who played a large part in the push to clean up the legacy of uranium mining on the Spokane Indian Reservation; Abrahamson died of cancer in January 2020, attributing her illness to the radioactive toxins that she had dedicated her life to saving others from. | Twa-le Abrahamson-Swan is a member of the Spokane Tribe, an environmental activist and the executive director of the River Warrior Society, a collective across the Coeur d’Alene, Colville, Kalispel, Nez Perce and Spokane tribes; Abrahamson-Swan refocused the collective’s energies on providing pandemic and wildfire relief; she is Deb Abrahamson’s daughter.

 

We are in a critical moment. In the midst of an ongoing global pandemic that is leaving no family untouched, compounded by increasingly extreme weather events linked to climate change, a unique global art project is shining a light on voices essential to the ecological solutions and collective healing we seek: Indigenous women.

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