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Wrong Kind of Green Apr 01, 2016 Whiteness & Aversive Racism
White Power on the Salish Sea

By Jay Taber

Introduction

In Drumming Up Resentment: The Anti-Indian Movement in Montana, a special report published

by Montana Human Rights Network in 2000, author Ken Toole made the following remarks:

The context in which most people place words like racism, prejudice, and discrimination is the
civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In that context, an oppressed minority, African
Americans, sought inclusion, a piece of the pie, equal opportunity and integration.

The struggle for civil rights in Indian country is different. It rests more on sovereignty and
autonomy than on inclusion and integration. The legal framework created by the civil rights
activists of the 1950s and 1960s sought to secure equal treatment within existing institutions and
law. Indian rights activists, by and large, seek recognition of their right to develop their own law.
Basically, they seek recognition of a right to self-determination. This difference is confusing and
gives the anti-Indian movement an advantage in the rhetorical arena.

Taken at face value, the anti-Indian movement is a systematic effort to deny legally established
rights to a group of people who are identified on the basis of their shared culture, history,
religion and tradition. That makes it racist by definition.
Writing further, Mr. Toole examined the organizational infrastructure of the Anti-Indian
Movement:
Over the last thirty years, tribal governments have become more sophisticated about asserting
themselves through treaty rights. This evolution has often created controversy. Those who have
opposed tribes, fearing Indian governance, have coalesced themselves into the anti-Indian
movement. Groups like the Interstate Congress for Equal Rights and Responsibilities (ICERR),
Totally Equal Americans (TEA), and the Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA) have served as
national umbrella organizations for groups that have grown out of local and state controversies.
These national groups have focused on federal policy by lobbying in Congress and litigating in
the federal courts. However, the power and effectiveness of these national groups is linked to the
local anti-Indian groups.

In addition to vertical integration from local to state to national organizations, the anti-Indian
movement also developed horizontal integration, or ally relationships with groups and
activists in other political and social movements. The anti-Indian movement is allied with the
anti-environmental wise use movement. There is extensive cooperation between anti-Indian
groups like CERA and wise use groups like the Alliance for America. Loose affiliation between
anti-Indian groups and the Religious Right is also evident primarily in the electoral arena and
state legislature. Finally, despite their best efforts, anti-Indian activists often stumble into the
overt white supremacist movement. It is not a surprising stumble since both movements have
racist ideas at the core.

In the conclusion of Drumming Up Resentment, Ken Toole remarked that the public education
system is doing a woefully inadequate job of providing information to students on Indian issues.
The result, he says, is that citizens are increasingly ignorant about treaty rights and tribal
sovereignty. This, he warns, makes them far more vulnerable to the politics of resentment offered
up by the Anti-Indian Movement.

2015 Tsleil-Waututh Blessing Stop. Photo: Paul Anderson

Givers and Takers

On April 6, 2013, I received a request from the editor of the Cascadia Weekly for background on
Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA), which had held an anti-Indian conference earlier that
day in Bellingham, Washington. On April 10, my article Anti-Indian Conference was published
at IC Magazine.
On April 17, the Cascadia Weekly editor published a column titled A history of violence. On
page 4 of the April 17 Earth Day issue of Cascadia Weekly, he published my letter to the editor,
Givers and Takers, which connected the organized racism promoted by CERA to propaganda
by the Gateway Pacific Terminal (GPT) coal export developers. Responding to my letter, Craig
Cole, the PR spokesman for the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal located next to the
Lummi Indian reservation phoned the editor expressing his displeasure with my op-ed.

On April 26, 2013, the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) in
Seattle published a special report by Charles Tanner Jr titled Take These Tribes Down The
Anti-Indian Movement Comes To Washington State.
As an associate scholar of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) in Olympia,
Washington, and communications director at Public Good Project, based in San Francisco, I have
access to quite a lot of material on this topic. Most notably, Anti-Indian Movement on the Tribal

Frontier by CWIS chair Dr. Rudolph C. Ryser, and Wise Use in Northern Puget Sound by former
Public Good research director, Paul de Armond.
On May 13, 2013, it came to my attention that Skip Richards one of the two organizers of the
April 6, 2013 CERA conference, and a strategist of anti-Indian campaigns in the 1990s was
scheduled to speak at a May 24 luncheon for the Republican Women of Whatcom County, at the
Bellingham Golf and Country Club. In response to this information, I added the following
background on Skip Richards as an appendix to my April 10 article at IC Magazine.
For background on Skip Richards, readers might find the following Public Good Project
special reports useful.

Reign of Terror

Common Sense About the Richards Militia Controversy

Militia and CLUE Activity in Whatcom and Snohomish Counties

Skip Richards Years of Contact with Christian Patriot Militias

Wise Use in Northern Puget Sound

A Not So Distant Mirror

Profits of Prejudice

Some news articles about Skip Richards collaboration with Christian Patriot militia:

A History of Violence

CLUE and Militias Exploit Landowners

Militia ties haunt campaign

In Whatcom County, Distaste For Government Grows

After sending my updated article to the Whatcom League of Women Voters, with a note about
the likelihood of Richards leading a hate campaign against tribal sovereignty by appealing to the
Tea Party wing of the GOP, I informed my Public Good colleagues that Richards and other
entrepreneurial merchants of fear were apparently hovering around the treaty rights/water
rights/GPT conflicts probing for an opportunity to recreate the climate of fear that twenty years

ago allowed them to capture the Whatcom County Council. Additionally, I noted that The
PACs and non-profits the property rights network established back then for political power later
spawned the anti-Indian, militia organizing.

photo: Lummi Nation Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office

On May 16, 2013, IC Magazine published a follow-up to my April 10 article, titled Anti-Indian
Sociopath Skip Richards At The Country Club: Is Media Complicity And Public Amnesia
Enough?, and I sent the following message to the Public Good network:
In addition to lacking a moral compass, Richards apparently believes that simply denying
proven collaboration with militias, and overwhelming evidence of his having built a career on
malicious harassment is sufficient to absolve him from accountability for his actions. It is truly
astounding he ran for senate at the same time his militia pals were arrested by the FBI.

His recent appearance as a guest speaker at a blatantly racist conference alongside his cohort
of bigots from twenty years ago at which he pretends to know nothing about the anti-Indian
movement is mindboggling. His present posturing as an innocent water consultant, when his

record shows he actively engaged in water resource conflicts with anti-Indian activists
throughout the 1990s, indicates he is astonishingly adept at self-delusion.

I was a witness to the journey and can say with deep conviction that this journey mattered. It
mattered to those assembled, to the travelers, to the multitudes that read about it in the paper,
heard about it on the radio, or saw it on TV, to landscapes and their lifeforms, and (in my mind),
to the unseen forces within and around us that ask of us only our steadfast faith. This is a coming
together. Kurt Russo, Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office, Lummi Nation
Horizontal Integration

On June 4, 2013, I came across a link to YouTube videos from the Gateway Pacific Terminal
panel forum, featuring Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen, Dave Warren of Northwest
Jobs Alliance, Whatcom County Realtors Association lobbyist Perry Eskridge, and realtor Mike
Kent, whom I knew to be the brother of former KGMI radio host Jeff Kentnoted in the Profits
of Prejudice PDF, attached to my April 10 IC Magazine article. As a KGMI radio host in
September 1995, Jeff Kent led Fee Land Owners Association (FLOA) representatives Jeff
McKay and Linnea Smith in an hour-long diatribe against the Lummi Indians.
In August 2013, Whatcom Watch monthly included a supplement by Jewell Praying Wolf James
of the Lummi Indian Tribe titled The Search for Integrity in the Conflict over Cherry Point as a
Coal Export Terminal. In the October-November 2013 issue of Whatcom Watch, Sandra
Robsons article How Property Rights Can Become Property Wrongs was the cover story. In the
article, Robson recounts the violent history of property rights groups in Whatcom county, and

notes that the co-organizer of the April 6 CERA conference was Tom Williams, a Minuteman
militia member, and CERA board member. Paul de Armonds 2005 Public Good Project report
Racist Origins of Border Militias sheds light on what these white supremacists are all about.
On October 9, 2013, the Whatcom Tea Party sponsored a Gateway Pacific Terminal Debate at the
Building Industry Association of Whatcom County (BIAWC). As reported by Paul de Armond in
the 1995 Public Good Project special report Wise Use in Northern Puget Sound, the BIAWC had
been an active supporter of Wise Use terrorism against environmentalists and Native Americans
in 14 Washington counties, including Whatcom, where Skip Richards was a paid BIAWC agent
provocateur.
Also on October 9, 2013, Cascadia Weekly ran an editorial titled Polar Chill, noting the editor is
dismayed to see coal export interests laundering large amounts of campaign contributions
suggesting that the early promise of coal export interests to be good corporate citizens was a
lie. The following three paragraphs of the editorial are worth reading in its entirety:
As noted by Western Washington University Professor Todd Donovan, and detailed by local
political blogger Riley Sweeney and Seattle media, Pacific International Terminals donated
$30,000 to the state Republican Party. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad donated another
$10,000. These contributions were turned over to state party vice-chair Luanne Van Werven,
who also heads the Whatcom County Republicans. Van Werven then distributed $1,500 to each
selected candidate, along with $17,000 to Whatcom Republicans. Whatcom Republicans in turn
funneled $17,000 to Republican-endorsed Whatcom County Council candidates. The transfers,
Donovan noted, are not typical for local elections. The transfers both exceed the cap on
contributions an individual may make and disguise the contributions origins. Coal interests do
not appear on these candidates disclosures, but the laundered funds are available for
candidates use in the election.

It appears that Pacific International Terminals and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad
have earmarked campaign funds given to the state Republican Party such that these funds
exclusively benefit candidates in Whatcom County, Donovan wrote to the state Public
Disclosure Commission, which investigates alleged campaign finance irregularities. Donovan is
a political scientist and elections expert.

This practice allows Pacific International and BNSF to disguise the fact that they are a
primary source of campaign funds for these candidates and for the Whatcom County Republican
Party, Donovan wrote to the PDC. This practice allows Pacific International and BNSF to
spend money on Whatcom County candidate races in excess of what is allowable under state
law.

The Politics of Resentment

The Northern Cheyenne Reservation (Bob Zellar, Billings Gazette)

On October 16, 2013, I became aware of a new PAC called SaveWhatcom, registered by KGMI
radio host Kris Halterman and Lorraine Newman. Halterman is noted in my Anti-Indian
Conference article at IC Magazine, having interviewed CERA celebrity Elaine Willman at the
April 6, 2013 CERA gathering. Halterman had Willman on her March 30, 2013 show Saturday
Morning Live, saying the April 6 conference would teach local officials and citizens how to take
on tribal governments. On Haltermans November 3, 2012 show, Willman called for an end to
tribal sovereignty, stating, Tribalism is socialism, and has no place in our country!
In August and September, 2013 as I soon learned the Gateway Pacific Terminal consortium
had funneled $149,000 into the SaveWhatcom and WhatcomFirst PACs, run by KGMI radio
hosts Kris Halterman and Dick Donohueboth of whom I had noted in my May 5, 2013 IC
Magazine article, White Power on the Salish Sea: The Wall Street/Tea Party Convergence. In this
article, I noted the following about Donohue and Halterman:
On March 30, 2013, Donohue interviewed CERA board member and Minuteman Tom Williams,
who promoted the untrue idea that Indians have citizenship privileges without paying taxes, and
noted that CERA was currently mounting a national offensive to terminate tribal sovereignty. On
April 6, Donohue and Halterman interviewed Willman and Phillip Brendale live from the AntiIndian Conference, who declared that the purpose of the regional gathering was to Take these
Tribes Down.
On November 3, 2013, Kris Halterman posted a Breaking News story on her KGMI blog titled
Whatcom County Council Appeals GMHB Ruling on Rural Element: a decision to affect Your
Water Rights. In Haltermans story, she notes that on the previous days KGMI show Radio Real
Estate, host Mike Kent invited experts to talk about Whatcom Countys water rights, including
Skip Richards. As noted at Whatcom Watch, a November 19, 2013 letter to Sandra Robson from
Perry Eskridge, Government Affairs Director for Whatcom County Association of Realtors,
Eskridge stated the following:
I have been provided a copy of your recent article, How Property Rights Can Become Property
Wrongs, published in the Whatcom Watch. I was asked to explain your apparent effort to tie
several violent racial events in the past to current efforts by Whatcom County property rights
organizations, including the Whatcom County Association of Realtors, advocating for property
rights protections in our county.

While the article does not directly accuse the Realtors of some of the more heinous acts you
describe, you do state Powerful political forces masked in seemingly constructive organizations
like the Washington Realtors [sic] Association (including each groups local level
organizations), fund and interact with property rights groups. Whatcom Watch, October-

November 2013, pg. 8. You continue by alleging that these groups, including the Realtors, use
these groups to do much of their work for them. Id. These statements are not accurate.
The reference cited in the article by Ms. Robson that disturbed Mr. Eskridge is from Wise Use in
Northern Puget Sound, Appendix II, paragraph 7, which states, These groups, such as the
Master Builders Association, the various county chapters of the Affordable Housing Council, the
local Chambers of Commerce, and realtors associations, provide the leadership and funding for
creating front groups like the Property Rights Alliance, SNOCO PRA, Whatcom CLUE and
other so-called grass-roots groups.
In Appendix VIII, source number 167, the Seattle Times notes the financial contribution from the
Washington Association of Realtors to Initiative 164, the property rights initiative. As noted in
source number 170, the Seattle Times quotes Secretary of State Ralph Munro, who ordered an
investigation by the State Patrol regarding thousands of fake Initiative 164 signatures.
On November 21, 2013, in an article at the Seattle Times titled On Behalf of North Dakota and
Montana, McKenna calls Washington coal study unconstitutional, former Washington Attorney
General Rob McKenna wrote a letter to Washington State that questioned the constitutionality of
Washingtons Department of Ecology review of the proposed coal-export terminal at Cherry
Point. In his unsuccessful 2012 bid for governor against Jay Inslee, McKenna made his support
for coal-export terminals a major issue.
In Trampling on the Treaties: Rob McKenna and the Politics of Anti-Indianism, a 2012 report by
Chuck Tanner and Leah Henry-Tanner, the authors examined Washington gubernatorial
candidate McKenna via his career as a public official opposed to treaty rights, as well as his
working relationship with Anti-Indian activists and organizations. As the Tanners note:
McKennas Anti-Indian policies and ideas, and his willingness to ally his public office with
opponents of tribal rights, should raise a large red flag for all people in Washington state who
support respectful relations with Indian Nations.
The Tanners observed that as Washington Attorney General, McKennas legal briefs provide a
political framework for backlash against Indian NationsHis actions as Attorney General,
point to a pattern of disrespect for the basic rights of indigenous nationsWhen McKenna
perceives a state interest at issue, he will oppose the fundamental rights of Indian Nations and
ally with anti-Indian activists to achieve his goals.
Educating the Public

2015 Tsleil-Waututh Blessing Stop. Photo: Paul Anderson

In a November 24, 2013 story at EarthFix titled Documents Reveal Coal Exporter Disturbed
Native American Archeological Site at Cherry Point, the first installment of a two-part series,
KUOW reporter Ashley Ahearn wrote the following about Gateway Pacific Terminal parent
company Pacific International Terminals:
Three summers ago the company that wants to build the largest coal export terminal in North
America failed to obtain the environmental permits it needed before bulldozing more than four
miles of roads and clearing more than nine acres of land, including some wetlands.

Pacific International Terminals also failed to meet a requirement to consult first with local
Native American tribes, the Lummi and Nooksack tribes, about the potential archaeological
impacts of the work. Sidestepping tribal consultation meant avoiding potential delays and
roadblocks for the projects development.

It also led to the disturbance of a site from which 3,000-year-old human remains had previously
been removed and where archeologists and tribal members suspect more are buried.

Pacific International Terminals and its parent corporation, SSA Marine, subsequently settled for
$1.6 million for violations under the Clean Water Act.

According to company documents obtained by EarthFix after the lawsuit made them public,
Pacific International Terminals drilled 37 boreholes throughout the site, ranging from 15 feet to
130 feet in depth, without following procedures required by the Army Corps of Engineers under
the National Historic Preservation Act.

On November 26, 2013, IC Magazine published my editorial Cherry Point Ownership, in which I
noted that the August 2013 Whatcom Watch insert by Jewell Praying Wolf James revealed that
the Lummi people did not sign away Cherry Point in the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliot. As Mr.
James wrote, Cherry Point was part of the original Lummi Reservation, not part of the lands
ceded under duress to the U.S. Government. Only in 1872 was Cherry Point illegally removed
from the Lummi Reservation by Presidential Executive Order, in order for the Bureau of Indian

Affairs to unlawfully sell the property to white squatters. As one of the most important ancient
Lummi village sites, Cherry Point ownership, in 2013, had been in dispute for 141 years.
In January 2014, Whatcom Watch published What Would Corporations Do? Native American
Rights and the Gateway Pacific Terminal, Sandra Robsons detailed account of moneylaundering by the coal export consortium into the hands of CERA-supporting, Tea Party-led
PACs. The footnotes of her cover story include a link to my IC Magazine article White Power on
the Salish Sea: The Wall Street/Tea Party Convergence, as well as the referenced April 26, 2013
IREHR report Take These Tribes Down by Charles Tanner Jr.
On January 15, 2014, Indian Country Today published an article by Winona LaDuke titled Crow
and Lummi, Dirty Coal & Clean Fishing, in which she notes that Cherry Point, home of the
ancient Lummi village of XweChiexen, was the first site in Washington State to be listed on the
Washington Heritage Register. As a 3,500-year-old site, she said, It is sacred to the Lummi.
As one of the most prominent American Indian intellectual celebrities, Winona works a lot with
Native American environmental activists that are trying to change their tribal governments to be
less dependent on Wall Street, so they can make better choices. She has done many good things
for tribes, including her own, to get back on a more sustainable track. This April 17, 2010 talk by
Winona is a particularly good one.
On page 12 of the January 15, 2014 issue of Cascadia Weekly, in an article titled Draw the Line
by Tim Johnson, he noted that the waters at Cherry Point are home to one of the best crab
fisheries along the coast, and that this fishery sustains many tribal families. In the article, he
quotes Jeremiah Jay Julius, secretary of the Lummi Nation Governing Council, a fisherman
and crabber descended from tribesmen who have fished the waters off Cherry Point for centuries.
Featured in a KCTS documentary and related PBS News Hour piece about the proposed
Northwest coal terminals, Julius stated, The sacred must be protected.
A Free Press

On February 5, 2014, Gateway Pacific Terminal spokesman Craig Cole threatened Whatcom
Watch with a SLAPP suit, which I covered for IC magazine in my February 8 article Gateway
Pacific Terminal Consultant Threatens Journalists. In the four page letter sent to Whatcom Watch,
Cole accused Robson and myself of libel, threatening that Robson and Whatcom Watch are put
on notice. In a February 19 article Craig Cole Threatens Libel Suit at Northwest Citizen, editor
John Servais made the following remarks:
We have seen the effects of big money on politics and corporate media, and now those long
arms are reaching into our local media using lawsuits to intimidate or bully local citizen
journalists away from vigorously reporting what is happening. Indeed, it has been working!
The folks at the Whatcom Watch are stuck in a defensive crouch over this threat. The Watch has
no money and Mr. Cole has some of the largest corporations in the country behind him. It seems

unlikely Cole would send such a letter without the backing and encouragement of his corporate
clients.
If large corporations are trying to silence local reporting, citizens should know. My thinking is
that Ms Robson and the Whatcom Watch were getting close to the truth of what is going on and
this is a classic corporate effort to silence them.
On February 14, 2014, in my IC Magazine editorial The Politics of Land and Bigotry, I
recounted the March 8, 1996 conference I attended, hosted by the Center for World Indigenous
Studies and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, to dialogue about the portentous
movements in America intent on promoting interracial discord and a growing politics of fear.
Reading Robsons January article at Whatcom Watch, I was reminded of meeting Jay Inslee in
1996, when he first ran for governor of Washington. Then State Senator Harriet Spanel had
invited me and Inslee to dinner, where I talked with her about property rights convulsions
influencing her reelection campaign, in which she was challenged by Skip Richards, who made
anti-Indian racism the cornerstone of his campaign. When the Anacortes American exposed
Richards as a militia host, his campaign went down in flames.
On February 17, 2014, in an Indian Country Today article titled Coast Salish Nations Unite to
Protect Salish Sea, the Lummi, Swinomish, Suquamish and Tulalip tribes of Washington joined
the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam Nations in British Columbia in opposing Kinder
Morgans proposed TransMountain pipeline and other energy-expansion and export projects that
pose a threat to the environmental integrity of our sacred homelands and waters, our treaty and
aboriginal rights, and our cultures and life ways. In December 2013, Kinder Morgan, the third
largest energy producer in North America, filed an application with the National Energy Board of
Canada (NEB) to build a new pipeline to transport crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands to
Vancouver, British Columbia, that if approved, would result in a 200% increase in oil tanker
traffic through the Salish Sea. On February 11, 2014, these tribes and nations collectively filed
for official intervener status with the NEB.
On February 25, 2014, Northwest Citizen (NWC) posted Relevant Documents to Libel Threat,
including Craig Coles letter threatening a libel lawsuit against Whatcom Watch (WW), as well as
a link to my article at IC Magazine, noting that It is interesting that Cole has not threatened to
sue Taber or Tabers publisher. NWC editor John Servais observes it is legitimate for WW to
seek connections between the anti-Indian groups and the corporations seeking permits to build
the coal terminal, saying, It is called journalism and the exercise of a free press.
A Terrible Insult

A ceremony held at Cherry Point, a part of the Lummi anti-coal totem pole journey. 09/30/2013
Photo: Ryan Hasert
On March 10, 2014, writing at the SaveWhatcom blog, Tea Party leader and KGMI radio host
Kris Halterman defended Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA), as well as Craig Coles threat
against Whatcom Watch. On March 12, 2014, in an editorial titled Tone Deaf, Cascadia Weekly
excoriated Pacific International Terminals for its unpermitted destruction of the ancestral burial
grounds of the Lummi Nation at Cherry Point, saying it is a terrible insult to the Lummi
people.
On March 28, 2014, Indian Country Today published a feature story titled Anti-Indian CERA
Doesnt Like the Law of the Land, or Us, Apparently, by Terri Hansen, in which CERA is
described as The Ku Klux Klan of Indian Country. On April 2, 2014, federal Indian law
attorney Dave Lundgren wrote in his Indian Country Today op-ed Expose Hate Groups Like
CERA that, They disguise their fear and hatred with bogus legal arguments designed to rile up
local resentment.
On April 4, 2014, my Public Good Project editorial Liberal Elite Versus Democracy discussed
the collapse of Whatcom Watch under its new president Terry Wechsler, who began blaming the
messenger Sandra Robson for the papers troubles. In a communication to this author, Wechsler
said my advice to expose, confront and reject organized racism is counterproductive.

Astonishingly, Wechsler actually suggested to me that Skip Richards racist organizing in the
1990s is a thing of the past, because he told her he no longer does that. I reminded her that
Richards was one of the two people who organized the April 6, 2013 CERA anti-Indian
conference, a fact reported in my IC Magazine article Anti-Indian Conference.
On June 27, 2014, the Bellingham Herald article Craig Coles legal threat against Whatcom
Watch resolved claimed the SLAPP suit issue had been amicably resolved, saying What
bothered Cole more than Robsons piece was a follow up by blogger Jay Taber that contorted
Robsons hypothetical scenario into flat-out reality. Had the reporter Ralph Schwartz bothered
to closely read Sandra Robsons extensively-sourced article and mine, he would have discovered
that my accusation of Cole promoting racism was based on documented facts.
On June 30, 2014, my article Capitalizing on Fear at IC Magazine explained how Gateway
Pacific Terminal funding enabled Tea Party-led PACs and KGMI radio to drum up resentment
against Lummi Nation. On December 23, 2014, in my IC Magazine post White Power vs
Northwest Indians, I included two posters from Public Good ProjectGateway Pacific Terminal
Hall of Shame, and White Power on the Salish Sea.
In January 2015, Sandra Robson was one of four journalists to receive a Public Good
Correspondent Award for 2014. On March 27, 2015, Robsons article A Sovereign Nation Stands
Tall was published at IC Magazine. On April 10, 2015, my article Railroading Racism: Warren
Buffett vs Northwest Indians ran there as well.
Conclusion

On July 27, 2015, my article Crowing Jesus: Four Square Gospel vs A Sacred Trust at IC
Magazine noted that in a July 21 article at the Los Angeles Times, Crow Tribe Chairman Darrin
Old Coyote called Lummi Nation leaders ignorant pawns of Seattle environmental groups. A
supplier of coal, the Crow are in bed with Gateway Pacific Terminal. As a Pentecostal Christian
tribe, the Crow are challenging Lummi Nations sacred trust to protect the Salish Seaa holy
mandate that Earth Ministry, Resources, Unitarian Universalists, and Sierra Club support.
On March 12, 2016, Northwest Citizen named Sandra Robson the Paul deArmond Citizen
Journalist of the year, saying, If there were a Pulitzer Prize for citizen journalism, Sandra
Robson would win it.

[Jay Thomas Taber is an associate scholar of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, a
correspondent to Forum for Global Exchange, and a contributing editor of Fourth World
Journal. Since 1994, he has served as communications director at Public Good Project, a
volunteer network of researchers, analysts and journalists engaged in defending democracy. As a
consultant, he has assisted indigenous peoples in the European Court of Human Rights and at
the United Nations.]