Support the Federal Restoration of the Chinook Indian Nation
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Dec 21st, 2011Someone from Mountlake Terrace, WA signed.
Dec 21st, 2011Someone from Vancouver, WA signed.
Dec 21st, 2011Someone from Sherwood, OR writes:
Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery would not have made it through the winter of 1805 without the help of the Chinook Tribe. Earlier this year , when descendants of William Clark returned a canoe to the Chinook Indian Nation to replace the one stolen by the Corps of Discovery, a long-standing wrong was righted. That piece of symbolic justice should be followed by restoring federal recognition of the Chinook Indian Nation to give them the respect they deserve. There should never have been the need for restoration in the first place. The disenfranchisement of the Chinook tribe is a moral wrong which must be righted. Many elders who have been fighting and waiting for the restoration of the Chinook Tribe, including my mother, have died. Please vote for the restoration before more elders are gone.Dec 21st, 2011Someone from Sherwood, OR writes:
Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery would not have made it through the winter of 1805 without the help of the Chinook Tribe. Earlier this year , when descendants of William Clark returned a canoe to the Chinook Indian Nation to replace the one stolen by the Corps of Discovery, a long-standing wrong was righted. That piece of symbolic justice should be followed by restoring federal recognition of the Chinook Indian Nation to give them the respect they deserve. There should never have been the need for restoration in the first place. The disenfranchisement of the Chinook tribe is a moral wrong which must be righted. Many elders who have been fighting and waiting for the restoration of the Chinook Tribe, including my mother, have died. Please vote for the restoration before more elders are gone.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 20th, 2011Someone from Chinook, WA signed.
Dec 20th, 2011Someone from Ocean Park, WA signed.
Dec 20th, 2011Someone from Seattle, WA signed.
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No, CancelDec 20th, 2011Someone from Seaside, OR writes:
The Chinook people deserve legal recognition of their peoplehood and their relationship with their land from time immemorial!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 20th, 2011Someone from Long Beach, WA signed.
Dec 20th, 2011Someone from Shelton, WA writes:
I just don't understand how anyone could NOT recognize the contribution of this tribe. They are well known throughout history, well proven. Reconsider. It's the right thing to do. They deserve recognition.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 20th, 2011Someone from Springfield, MO writes:
I wish the USA would stop wasting billions of tax dollars on a futile attempt to protect/establish questionable homelands for nations in the Middle East, and instead, spend that money on reclaiming Native American spiritual sites and burial grounds and resettling individual tribes back on the original, sovereign territories that were stolen from them during the past 500 years.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 20th, 2011Someone from Valley Springs, CA signed.
Dec 20th, 2011Someone from Warrenton, OR signed.
Dec 20th, 2011Someone from Gresham, OR writes:
My great great grandfather, Chief, of the Quileute Tribe, Thomas (Tommy) Payne worked in coordination to organize the Chinook Indians. Tommy Payne's efforts were to get the Chinook Indians recognized as they own a large percentage of the Quinault Indian Reservation forest land that is now known as Halbert vs. US. Congress has the power to get the Chinook Indian Tribe Federal recognition. Several Chinook women got married to fur trappers and white settlers. In 1805 Lewis and Clark document that they have discovered the Chinook Indian Tribe. The Chinooks were already here before Lewis and Clark arrived, the Chinooks took care of them during the cold winter as they were all sick and almost died. It's been over 200 years and the Chinook Indian Tribe needs Federal recognition. I am married to a Chinook Indian, Scott Seiler. I am a Quileute Indian and filipino, my name is Marilyn Seiler. My grandfather Wilson Payne, my mother Stella Payne, both of La Push, Washington. Please sign the petition.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 20th, 2011Someone from Warrenton, OR writes:
This was a real tribe when the Lewis and Clark Expedition came across the country and it's still a tribe today!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 19th, 2011Someone from Portland, OR signed.
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Dec 19th, 2011Someone from Albuquerque, NM signed.
Dec 19th, 2011Someone from Seattle, WA writes:
Please provide justice for our First Nations people. They have suffered and been denied status for too long.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 19th, 2011Someone from Vancouver, WA signed.
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Dec 19th, 2011Someone from Vancouver, WA signed.
Dec 19th, 2011Someone from Concho, OK writes:
As natives of this Turtle Island we have a right to be recognized, it's ashame another tribe protested, we are all one, suppose to be helping each other no matter what tribe.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 19th, 2011Someone from Bellingham, WA signed.
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Dec 19th, 2011Someone from Tillamook, OR writes:
My dad's family traces back to the ChinookREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 19th, 2011Someone from Cannon Beach, OR signed.
Dec 18th, 2011Someone from Vancouver, WA writes:
The Chinook tribe deserve federal recognition. Enough of politics both tribal and otherwise. There is substantial documentation that they were and are a sovereign tribeREPORT COMMENTS
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