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Community Flotilla:
All Our Relations Snake River Campaign


Sat, Sept. 30th | 8:30 am- 2:00 pm

Hells Gate State Park, Lewiston, ID

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Image by Andrew Ly

JOIN IN OUR EFFORTS TO PROTECT WOLVES AND GRIZZLIES

The gray wolf species in the Northern Rockies has faced its most severe threat in a century. While a lawsuit recently restored protections for wolves in 44 states, due to a series of administrative and legislative maneuvers over the past decade, wolves remain unprotected in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and portions of several adjacent states. It is time for these Northern Rockies states to end their hostility toward wolves.

Grizzly bears are an essential piece of the American West, a wildlife icon that has been integral to the Yellowstone region for centuries. They embody true wilderness. 

 

In the late 19th and early 20th century, grizzly bears were nearly wiped out in the lower 48 states. There were an estimated 50,000-100,000 grizzlies throughout the West, but unregulated killing, bounties, habitat destruction, and fragmentation reduced bears to fewer than 800 bears, mostly in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks and surrounding wildlands. Through diligent work and the protections of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), grizzlies have come back to these core areas. Today there are an estimated 1,900 bears in the Northern Rockies, and they are slowly expanding into suitable habitats in some areas. But the job of recovering grizzlies is far from done, as continued development, more human presence, and hostile state legislatures and wildlife officials work to keep grizzlies in isolated populations, with bare minimum numbers. 

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Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment
 Who We Are and What We Believe...

We exist to carry on time-honored sustainable environmental practices in the tradition of the Nimiipuu by facilitating and organizing tribal youth and adults in activities for the protection, enhancement, and promotion of mother earth and the Nimiipuu culture.

Our vision is that the Nimiipuu and community members live, work, play, and pray, in an environment which sustains such activities and leaves a light foot-print for the protection of the environment and future generations.

Our Work:

To protect our Treaty areas and

To educate the tribal members and youth on current environmental issues.

To develop leaders in the environmental area for the next generation.

To promote activism within our tribes and To empower tribal members on effecting change.

Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment supports the LGBTQ+ community 

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ACTIVISM

Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment is a voice for the land, water and air. We gather to support positive environmental actions and to protest threats to our treaty right. We increases public awareness and encourage collective action.

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Knowing that there is strength both in numbers and a common vision, Nimiipuu connects with other groups in the region who are dedicated to protecting the environment.

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EDUCATE & ENGAGE

Nimiipuu organizes and/or hosts events to educate and engage the public. We work with elders and the young to facilitate intergenerational awareness and responsibility to protect what is sacred to us. We attract and develop environmental leaders for the coming generations.

NETWORKING

Paddle Making 2022

Paddle Making 2022

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Read Original 1855 Treaty

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Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians pass united resolution supporting removal of four Lower Snake River dams

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CHARTER SCHOOL DONATES CANOE TO NIMIIPUU CANOE PROJECT

(3 Minute Video)