I would like to give thanks to the Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, and coast Salish tribes, on whose lands I currently live and work, and to the Chinook Indian Nation, on whose lands I grew up. These nations still reside within and steward their lands to this day.

The Chinook Nation and the Duwamish Tribe have still yet to be federally recognized by the United States government, despite specific treaty rights negotiated in the Tansy Point and Elliot Bay treaties of 1851 and 1855, respectively.
You can learn about and support them in their fights for recognition on their websites:
https://chinooknation.org/
https://www.duwamishtribe.org/

Capitalist-imperialism displaces myriad human and non-human persons, extracts the wealth of the earth, and degrades the air, water, and land that supports all known life in the universe.
Interwoven in that web of life, we (humans) are inherently stewards of our surroundings. In oppressing indigineity and traditional stewardship practices in favor of the short-term power and wealth of a few, the root of all evil is born.

It is already too late to save some of the many millions of beings that are currently plummeting toward extinction at the hands of this evil. It is not too late to care. In actively observing and stewarding the land, we nurture wonder, creativity, and compassion. In uniting in solidarity with our fellow workers and caretakers of the Earth, we reject the bourgeois economy of extraction.

It is time to get our hands dirty. There is work to be done.