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CHIEF CALEEN SISK on the Fight for Free and Wild Salmon Rivers /47

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For The Wild

Anthropocene, Land, Story Telling, Progressive, Liberation, Media, For The Wild, Decolonization, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Ayana is joined by Chief Caleen Sisk, spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe of Northern California, to explore how the forces of industrial society have attempted to tame and exploit living waters, and how Indigenous stewards are facing the subsequent ecological predicament. Support the show

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please visit for the Wild dot world slash donate. The silence is broken by somebody crying, trying to be heard, never a word.

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Always the attitude sort of your own, always alone. Wishing for something the world is denying. Out in the world and the world and the somebody's crying. Somebody wishing for something to happen, wishing to tell, wishing to help,

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wishing to hell. wishing to hell.

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Someone was listening, someone who cared,

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never despair, someone to lean on

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Who needs your assistance and finds your discount.

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Hello and welcome to For the Wild podcast. I'm Iana Young. In today's

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episode we have the honor of speaking with Chief Kaleen Sisk of the

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winemem and win-win-2 tribe. Through this interview, we hope to garner your support

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for the Winnam-Wintu Salmon Restoration Project.

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