BELLINGHAM — Calling on the wisdom of nature that is sacred to Indigenous people, tribal leaders and environmental activists launched a two-week push through Washington on Saturday, aimed at countering President Donald Trump’s attempts to build roads through national forests and open pristine lands to mining, logging and oil drilling.

In a gathering at Maritime Heritage Park in Bellingham, near where a Lummi fishing village thrived just a little more than 100 years ago, speakers decried Trump’s push to end the “roadless rule” and encouraged everyone to comment online against it.

Jewel James of Lummi Nation’s House of Tears artists told about 120 people who attended the ceremony that it takes courage to resist the government.

“This is your government, this is your Constitution. And we’re

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