{"id":150,"date":"2024-04-07T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/csej\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:07:46","slug":"csej-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/csej\/csej-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"CSEJ and NAP (Native American Programs) News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CSEJ programs work to address important issues surrounding social and environmental justice throughout the Pacific Northwest. Here are a few links to articles and media about CSEJ’s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Silent Voices: A Chance to Tell Their Side,” Noemi Jimenez, The Vancougar,<\/em> March 3, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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“Survival in Gaza: WSUV DocArts Series Screens Film on Medical Workers in Gaza,” Noemi Jimenez, The Vancougar<\/em>, March 13, 2026<\/a>. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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“Doc Arts: Talilo Marfil and Yolotli X Speak on Activism Through theArts,”<\/a>Max Murphy, The Vancougar<\/em>, March 10, 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n
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“We need to dismantle settler colonialism in the United States. What Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank shows the world that settler colonialism only speaks the language of violence,” observes Din\u00e9 (Navajo) Prof. Melanie Yazzie, in excerpts from a wide-ranging reading and talk entitled “Decolonization or Extinction: Reclaiming Our Humanity Through Our Love for the Earth.” We reprise Yazzie’s talk from WSU Vancouver’s April 2024 conference on “Extraction, Militarism, and Climate Collapse,” Yazzie, co-host of the Red Power Hour<\/em> podcast, draws on a November 2023 speech at the March on Washington for Palestine. And she reads excerpts from The Real Deal and Red Nation Rising, works that consolidate insights from more than 25 Indigenous organizers and intellectuals with The Red Nation media collective. Landback, she explains, is the “soundest environmental policy for a planet teetering on the brink of total ecological collapse.”

“It’s important to recognize that the consolidation of the modern colonial state and the rise of the fascist state occurred pretty much at the same time. The modern colonial state and the fascist state are both particular forms of capitalist states,” observed Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash professor of History at UCLA and author of books including Race Rebels, Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of and American Original, Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams<\/em>. We hear excerpts of his June 2025 talk entitled “Colonialism, Capitalism, and Fascism,” which was recorded for air on the weekly program Alternative Radio, hosted by David Barsamian.

And finally, we hear reflections from student organizers with the DocArts Initiative of Native American Programs and the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice (CSEJ) at WSU Vancouver on learning and challenging myths about Thanksgiving.


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Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIPs), “Man Camps”, and Fossil Fuels: <\/strong>An interview with MMIP advocates Mykel Johnson and Nimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney about organizing to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people, and the role of the fossil fuel industry in fueling ongoing colonial violence against Indigenous people. Mykel Johnson is a member of the Multnomah Budget Advisory Council and NW Native Chamber tribal engagement business advisor. Julian Ankney is Director of Native American Programs at Washington State University Vancouver. Ankney’s brother Michael Murphy has been missing since 2018.

Indigenous Pathaways to Recovery: <\/strong>An interview with Dominique Arthur, a mentor with Painted House Recovery Center about recovery and healing from colonial violence by reconnecting with Indigenous culture.

Cultivating Indigenous Plant Knowledge and First Foods: <\/strong>An interview with Julian Ankney and Lakotat Cheyenne organizer Roben White about revitalizing Indigenous plant knowledge and cultivating First Foods on WSU Vancouver’s 350-acre campus with and Indigenous Traditional Ecological Cultural Knowledge (ITECK) garden. They speak about ITECK as an alternative to carbon-intensive global agribusines.
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\r\n\t\t\t\tNimiipuu Mole Julian Ankney hosts this decolonial Thanksgiving Show, which features the following segments:

Beginning in grade school, American school children are steeped in the American mythology of Thanksgiving, cosplaying pilgrims and their Wampanoag hosts peacefully breaking bread together to celebrate the harvest, erasing and sanitizing the history of the genocidal land grab that would play out in New England and across the country. But, as recorded in a plaque at Plymouth Rock, “Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon …in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Julian Ankney and Lakota Cheyenne organizer\/activist Roben White talk about the brutal historical realities that underpin Thanksgiving and the ongoing Indigenous struggle to decolonize the holiday.

Less than two years after John Trudell’s wife, three children and mother-in-law were murdered in a house fire within hours of Trudell burning a U.S. flag outside FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., Trudell gave a seering Thanksgiving Day speech unpacking the links between colonialism, capitalism, and U.S. militarism. We hear excerpts from the 1980 speech by the legendary spoken word poet, playwright, Vietnam-era veteran, and indefatigable activist with the American Indian movement. And we listen also to Trudell’s song honoring the legendary Oglala Lakota land and water defender Crazy Horse.\u00a0

Click on the title or image to listen to the program on KBOO Radio.

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Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Remembering Salmon Scam
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\r\n\t\t\t\tThe garden dedication was a powerful event that drew about 75 people, along with coverage in The Columbian that\u00a0takes up the lion’s share of the front page! The strong showing for the event and highly visible coverage in The Columbian\u00a0is a testament to campus and community support for this critical work centering Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and food justice and sovereignty.

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Featuring interviews with Julian Matthews of Nimiipuu protecting the environment and Chinook Tribal Council Member, Rachel Cushman. Respectively talking about the freeing the Snake River and the struggle for Chinook federal recognition.

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Story from WSUV’s campus newsmagazine, the VanCougar, highlighting work on the campus food garden.

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The VanCougar interviews Roben White, a Cheyenne Lakota activist and CSEJ keynote speaker about the work of CSEJ in the 2021-2022 academic year.

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VanCougar reporting on an activist panel hosted by CSEJ featuring community advocates for police accountability.

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