KHIMSTONIK
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KHIMSTONIK is dedicated to securing sustainable original peoples and person's resiliency over climate and economic redress phases.
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Reservations and their bordering lands contain multitudes - Nations within Nations of the Original People. We work towards the decolonization by bringing the voices of ancestors and elders, our relationships, and our knowledge of the land’s history to the public and our own Tribal Governments. We also help develop strategies for cultural, economic and climate resiliency across the region by communicating with local, regional, state, and federal governments. Our strategies emerge naturally from our practices of holding fast to our Native ways in the face of enormous and ongoing efforts to erase our culture and our connection to our lands.
KHIMSTONIK’s initial focus is on Southeast Washington, specifically on the ancestral lands of the Snake River Palouse People. In the future, we plan to expand our work and support to other Original Peoples seeking to reconnect with their pre-Reservation history within Native communities.
KHIMSTONIK’s initial focus is on Southeast Washington, specifically on the ancestral lands of the Snake River Palouse People. In the future, we plan to expand our work and support to other Original Peoples seeking to reconnect with their pre-Reservation history within Native communities.
A. Research - We gather essential but buried information and use it to empower the disenfranchised towards realizing land back and cultural resiliency.
In the wake of this destruction, and because of the lack of shared information systems, this information is now found in fragments across scattered books, reports, and legal proceedings that incorporated our ancestors' oral history. Some of these texts aimed to support us but most were used and continue to be used to break our ancestral relationships and community efforts. We have started to gather and weave this information to repair this rupture. To identify the next best steps we will conduct a community impact survey to help narrow our scope to address the needs identified by our communities in the bordering lands of the federally recognized Tribal areas.
B. Educate - We share this information with others, uncovering for them the true and nuanced history of place, in order to ensure that the Original Peoples and their resources are recognized and defended.
As new government officials are elected or appointed, some are loosely committed to supporting our sovereignty. The impact of this is multiplying ecological, cultural and economic crises. KHIMSTONIK supports this educational work by unburying the cultural and ecological history and knowledge of the descendants of those who held their connection to the land by adamantly refusing to join any of the reservations, and who now live on the lands bordering the federally recognized Reservations.
C. Embody - We remember and defend our Native ways by embodying our culture and by sharing with each other with those who enter our family through marriage including friendship.
For the Snake River Palouse, our language used by our ancestors continues to be spoken. Our families still work the lands where the native foods and medicines continue to grow and thrive.
Across all of our strategies, we use new materials to push against destruction, assimilation, and violence, to remain true to all the Creators people.