Kristin Hugo

Kristin Hugo is an online intern at YES! and a graduate of the program in journalism of California State University at Northridge.

Mar 282013
 

Environmental concerns, like native people, know no borders.

by Kristin Hugo

On a rare sunny March day in the Pacific Northwest, a group of indigenous people and non-indigenous supporters gathered at Seattle's Golden Gardens Park to continue the work of the Idle No More movement. The event featured speeches about the dangers that environmental destruction poses to the native way of life, an enormous salmon puppet, and a water-blessing ceremony.

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