Monday, April 02, 2018
Cowboys vs Indians
The American West--home to the Cowboys vs Indians psychodrama--is mustering for a final confrontation, this time over the looming extinction of the iconic Pacific salmon. While the original conflict featured action-packed, blood and gore slaughter of millions of bison and massacres of the Indigenous peoples whose lives depended on them, this time around it is a slow-motion train-wreck.
As major salmon stream polluters such as the Farm Bureau and Cattlemen's Association--along with state attorney generals and white newspaper owners--line up to attack the treaty rights of Northwest Treaty Tribes like the Swinomish, the apathetic citizenry is being asked to take sides.
Will so-called progressive moral authorities speak out, or maintain silence out of fear?
As major salmon stream polluters such as the Farm Bureau and Cattlemen's Association--along with state attorney generals and white newspaper owners--line up to attack the treaty rights of Northwest Treaty Tribes like the Swinomish, the apathetic citizenry is being asked to take sides.
Will so-called progressive moral authorities speak out, or maintain silence out of fear?
