#illahee

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Group in costume, WAC masquerade at Illahee, Washington Date: circa 1920-1935? Negative Number 135713

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a weekend of wandering!

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Just before dawn at Illahee Pond in Sammamish.  It used to be know as Llama Lake when there was a llama farm here. 

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Illahee Pond: Morning Walk - Amputee Outdoors

Look around your town, is there somewhere you can take a few minutes and enjoy nature?  

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Illahee

12 August 2020

This would have been our 23rd(?) year at Saltspring, but the Canadians want nothing to do with us this year, so we’re improvising. This is the first trip for the two of us since Portland in January. I got to Los Angeles in early March and had my little three-day bikepacking adventure two weeks ago, but far short of what would have been a packed spring and summer.

Three nights camping at Illahee State Park, less than 15 miles from home as the seagull flies, but much farther by car. They still had a few reasonable campsites available online when we checked a week and a half ago. The campground is small and at the top of a big hill, so getting to the water involves exercise.

We upgraded our camping experience with visits to Sluy’s in Poulsbo on Tuesday and Monica’s in Silverdale on Wednesday. Bakeries near the beach - something I work pretty hard at. But there were also marshmallows for National S’mores Day, though sometimes I think less is more, and prefer the unadorned version.

[ilahistory]

“Let us consider what it would be like to one day reach a point where acknowledging that this is unceded territory will no longer make sense, because the statement will be accepted as obvious fact. It is, indeed, obvious fact.”

In some places, territorial acknowledgements are more common and less controversial than they used to be. How can we go beyond those words now, and keep working towards reconciliation? Protocol matters, and it depends on the people whose homelands you occupy. 

This panel specifically refers to the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people and acknowledgement of their unceded territories in the lower mainland of BC.

Apihtawikosisan discusses the practice of territorial acknowledgements broadly, paralleling the purpose of video by saying, “What may start out as radical push-back against the denial of Indigenous priority and continued presence, may end up repurposed as “box-ticking” inclusion without commitment to any sort of real change. In fact, I believe this is the inevitable progression, a situation of familiarity breeding contempt (or at least apathy).” 

And: “Stopping at territorial acknowledgments is unacceptable.” The point of these, initially, was to inject discomfort into largely Settler-populated gatherings. Once they stop becoming uncomfortable, they stop having any meaning.

These contemporary acknowledgements take place in entirely urban settings, even though they could have a (bigger?) impact in rural communities where land-use decisions are made without First Nations input.

For a guide to territory acknowledgements where you live (in Canada), start here. Sorry, America, Canada’s ahead of you on this one.

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