The 2022 totem pole journey aims to inspire, inform, and engage Pacific Northwest communities through intergenerational voices, ceremony, art and science, spirituality, ancestral knowledge, and cross-cultural collaboration in support of the indigenous-led movement to remove the Snake River dams and restore to health the Snake River salmon runs and our relatives, the Southern Resident Killer Whales (Skali’Chelh in the Lummi language) that depend on them.

The faith community has been asked to show up in solidarity with Lummi tribal members, the House of Tears Carvers, the intertribal nonprofit Se’Si’Le, and Native communities across the Pacific Northwest tosupport a Totem Pole Journey uplifting the Indigenous-led movement to honor the spirit of a free-flowing Lower Snake River and restore the health its salmon and the orca that depend on them.(click here to read more and see the event schedule on the RVUUF blog),.