Bring Lana Jack home–to her cat!

Update:

Thanks to everyone who has contributed or shared this past to enable Lana to return from her brother's funeral in Canada. Your help also enabled her to stay over for a couple of weeks to help care for her father, see him honored at a powwow this past weekend, and to get her as far as Vashon Island. But we need your help with this home stretch to reunite her with her garden and her beloved cat El Gato.

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Lana Jack, Celilo Wy’am organizer and director of the Columbia River Indian Center needs help with funds to sustain her during her time in Canada, and for the return journey. She has been in Canada helping to coordinate the funeral of her brother. She needs help with gas, lodging, the ferry for the return trip, and with a tablet for her father, who has difficulty hearing, so that once she's back home, they can communicate via Zoom with closed captioning.

Lana’s brother is the son of Percy Jack, Hereditary Chief of the Coast Salish Cowichan Band. On his Nimiipuu/Nez Perce side of the family, his Indian name was Ulakot (Frog), and he was the rebel brother to Chief Joseph who fled to the

Canadian border. Then he took our dad’s Indian name: Tzouhalem. Tzouhalem was the chief of tens of thousands of Indians at one time, but he watched them dwindle down to a couple of hundred in his lifetime.

Lana's brother loved the Columbia River. He loved to fish and hunt. Just this year, an elder asked for Leon, because he used to bring him roots at Warm Springs. He was known for taking sacred foods to the elders. Lana's father Percy (87 y.o.) is in a fragile condition himself and requested that Lana be there with him to help organize the funeral.