Being Idle No More: The Woman Behind The Washington Movement

In her work as Director of Idle No More Washington, Sweetwater Nannauck (Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian) organizes Native and Indigenous people from many different tribal nations to stand up against arctic oil drilling. In anticipation of the construction of an oil rig in the Arctic by Shell, Nannauck organized a drum andprayer circle in Seattle to united the Indigenous peoples of Canada and Alaska, and the Coast Salish peoples, in calling for environmental and Indigenous justice. Photo credit: Micheal Rios