Jewell & Doug James of the  Lhaq'temish Nation.  The Lummi People.

The terms "giants" and "fearless warriors" and "self-less heroes" are mentioned so often we barely hear the words, unless they are fictional characters.  Some might say we have turned our back on real heroes.  Please take notice, you have actual, real-life heroes and warriors before you, today. 

Doug James and Jewell James cannot be described in terms of the usual "bios"  of college degrees, publications, and documentaries of their lifework--though between them they have all of that, and more. 

Rather, you have in these brothers an incomparable and uncompromising  level of inspired and inspiring, self-less and tireless talent, activism, gifted spiritual envisioning,  scholarship and intellectual vigor and rigor. faith, compassion, and a deep love for and lifetime dedication to the natural world and the cultural heritage here in the Salish Sea bioregion and around globe. 

They wear the paint from the House of Das-Ska-Dum and follow the Peyote Way.  They can tell you what that means if they feel it appropriate.  They have fought side by side and inspired hundreds of thousands of others around the world  in the fight to protect,  preserve and honor this fragile and imperiled  planet.  They have traveled over forty-five thousand miles--the equivalent of driving around the globe  twice-- on ten totem pole journeys to gather people in common cause and to help heal a wounded American Nation.  Between them over the past 35 years they have spoken at universities, churches, synagogues; from  pristine meadows in Montana  to the battleground of Standing Rock; from the Halls of Congress to the National Congress of American Indians and the United Nations; throughout the Americas from the Salish Sea to southernmost Chile and to the furthest reaches of the Amazon savanna, and to London, Zurich, Rome, and Johannesburg.     

We live in the age of fictional "action heroes." Jewell and Doug are real ones.