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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:13:27 -0700
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Subject: Feminists support Makahs
To the Chairperson and members of the Makah Tribe:
Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party send our warm congratulations
to the Makah Tribe and your young whalers on the taking of the tribe's
first whale in 70 years. What a wonderful, historic day
you have given to all who live in the Pacific Northwest. Your courage and
persistence in this fight have been an inspiration to us. We
un-conditionally support your treaty right to hunt whales.
We are appalled that Makah sovereignty is being challenged by unprincipled
racist protesters under the guise of saving the environment. The only
"environment" they hope to enhance with their protest is the dollars they
make from the commercialization of whales as sentimental symbols of the
natural world. We notice these protesters never target the tourist industry
whose boats kill whales, nor corporations whose pollution poisons these
mammals of the sea.
Anyone with good sense knows that Native Americans are not to blame for the
decimation of whales. The indigenous people of the Northwest sustained the
environment and the planet's resources for thousands of years. However,
industrialization ravaged the land and sea in a couple of centuries.
Both RW and FSP supported the tribes in the fishing rights struggles of the
1970s on the Puyallup and Nisqually rivers. Ann Rogers, a Chippewa Radical
Women member, went to Wisconsin in 1989 to join her
tribe's fight to exercise its treaty right to spearfish on and off the
reservation. Due to the determination and courage of Indians to defend
their culture these battles resulted in victories via the courts.
Today, we extend our support to you. We have written letters and editorials
on your right to whale hunt to our local papers, and we demonstrated
yesterday at the Federal Building in Seattle to support the Makah. If there
is more we can do, please feel free to ask us.
Again, we congratulate you on your successful hunt and the calm way you are
handling the uproar. We celebrate with you in our hearts.
Solidarity,
Ann Rogers, Radical Women
Debra O'Gara, Freedom Socialist Party
18 May 1999
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