ON PARADE – Children dressed as their favorite animals hold a Sitka Spruce Tips 4-H Club banner as they march down Lincoln Street on Earth Day, Monday. The Parade of Species was held in recognition of Earth Day. It was hosted by Sitka Conservation Society, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the Sitka Sound Science Center. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Sitkans Stand with Standing Rock at Benefit
By BRIELLE SCHAEFFER
Sentinel Staff Writer
Sitkans stood with Standing Rock on Saturday at a fund-raising benefit at the Sheet’ka Kwan Naa Kahidi.
The event, organized by Lakota Harden, Louise Brady, Dionne Brady-Howard, Lexi Fish Hackett and others, raised more than $5,000.
The money will go toward the Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council, a group that is providing assistance to the some 15,000 people in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, as well as help with protestors’ legal fees.
“There’s a lot of people getting injured and that’s why we wanted to help donate something that would be of benefit to those on the front lines there,” Hackett said.
The event also provided the opportunity to take part in a letter-writing campaign in which people petition state and federal lawmakers to help the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.
In all, Sitkans wrote some 200 letters, Hackett said.
“What we were hearing over and over is that it was a very powerful and healing and inspirational event,” she said. “It seemed like people enjoyed the solidarity aspect of it as well as being able to take action.”
The fundraiser included yoga, a potluck, a raffle, a silent auction and a performance by the Sheet’ka Kwaan Dancers.
“It’s been very frustrating to see everything that is going on,” Brady said. “The fundraiser on Saturday was an opportunity for us to respond as a community and build the type of community that is needed to hold our public servants accountable for what they are hired or elected to do.”
The group also plans to create an online auction this week to continue raising money for the cause.
Opponents of the pipeline route worry that it could harm the drinking water on the reservation and farther downstream on the Missouri River, The Associated Press reports.
Other Sitkans also have supported Standing Rock throughout the past few months. The Sitka Tribe of Alaska has sent a letter in support of the reservation and its people, and artists, including Savannah Rose, have also raised money. Rose offered discounted “Standing Rock” tattoos to raise money for the cause earlier this month. She gave about 13 tattoos and donated $480 in all, she said.
“I was raised to always think for the next seven generations in whatever I do and water is life and without clean water there is nothing,” Rose said.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Michael Stringer, environmental specialist for Sitka Tribe of Alaska and a founder of the community garden, takes the concept of Earth Week literally. This weekend he hopes others will share his appreciation for “earth” and things growing in it by joining him in preparing the community garden just behind Blatchley Middle School for another growing season.
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April 1974
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