Healing of the earth

Thank you to the many supporters of the Earth Day, Healing of the Earth event, to be held this year at the Spokane Tribal Gathering Place on April 22, 5:15-7:30 pm. It will be a place to be informed by experts who know and experience the environmental issues taking place in our communities, and to become inspired and best of all, to be involved with solutions!

We are members of the Silver Valley Community Resource Center, an organization that has reached out for years to gain support for environmental and human health solutions. They are not only being ignored, but are suffering repercussions for speaking out.

We know this as women who once were placed to work at the deadliest position of the lead smelter and ended up with one of the highest lead levels on record as a result.

We know as mothers who speak out for lead health intervention not being provided for our children, that speaking out can contribute to being evicted from your home and having your children being placed in foster care.

We know because we live in a hard-working community striving to recover economic development through recreation, establishing quality of health for our children and giving respect and dignity to the former workers and all those who are impacted in the Bunker Hill Superfund Site.

Sylvia Boe, Gros Vente Tribal member, and Donna O’Neill

Kellogg and Coeur d’Alene