Help us continue the fight to once-and-for-all achieve #chinookjustice for our sovereign nation.

The time to act is now! Please share and give if you can.

After more than a century of work, the Chinook Indian Nation obtained federal recognition from the U.S. government in 2001 only to have it rescinded eighteen months later in a one-of-a-kind action by the incoming Bush administration. This wrong decision has cost the Nation (and our local economy) over $300 million dollars since COVID, countless opportunities for our citizens, as well as numerous lives lost. We call on our elected officials to once-and-for-all end this crisis by federally recognizing the Chinook Indian Nation. By doing so, the U.S. government can honor the promises it made to the Chinook Indian Nation during our treaty negotiations and provide us with the protections and benefits that all other federally recognized tribes enjoy. It is time for Congress to exercise its power and authority and recognize the Chinook Indian Nation.

Stop the genocide and properly seat the Chinook Indian Nation as a federally recognized tribe on our aboriginal lands at the mouth of the great Columbia River now!

Chinook has been recognized by the United States since the beginning of our relationship by treaty negotiations, acts of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Indian Court of Claims and more.

Unfortunately, one form of recognition was naming 3 of our 5 five tribes in the Western Oregon
Termination Act. Of the 61 tribes named only ours are yet to be restored! Congress must finally wash away the harm of that era by restoring our community. That recognition is essential for economic development, protection of our land base, preservation of our culture, and our ability to repatriate our ancestors remains, grave goods, and sacred objects from museums and institutions around the country. Without recognition, we can’t access funds to protect our people and communities from the megaquake and tsunami that is coming or from the realities of sea level rise. Access to health care, mental health, drug and alcohol services, protections from the Indian Child Welfare Act, programs for housing and education all are dependent on federal acknowledgment.

The fight for recognition continues and we humbly ask for your support. Please join us in the fight for justice and stand with the Chinook Indian Nation!

#StoptheGenocide #FederallyRecognizeChinook #chinookjustice

For more information please visit: www.chinookjustice.org