{"id":278958,"date":"2025-10-05T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278958\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:58:10","slug":"nhbp-tribal-members-kayak-kalamazoo-river-to-mark-15-years-since-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278958\/","title":{"rendered":"NHBP Tribal members kayak Kalamazoo River to mark 15 years since oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL, Mich. \u2014 Members of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP) are marking 15 years since the Kalamazoo River oil spill with a 10-day kayak trip from Marshall to Saugatuck.<\/p>\n<p>Five Tribal members launched Saturday from Saylor\u2019s Landing, retracing ancestral routes to honor the river\u2019s recovery. The trip will end Oct. 13, Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year marks the 15th anniversary of the devastating oil spill that not only impacted our people ,but all life forms that depend on the river,\u201d said Ariel Boonstra, NHBP tribal council treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 Line 6B pipeline rupture released nearly a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, one of the largest inland spills in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Tribal leaders say the paddle symbolizes continued stewardship of Michigan\u2019s waterways for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARSHALL, Mich. \u2014 Members of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP) are marking 15 years since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":278959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[144205,746,62951,144203,144202,144204,42634,144206,159,144207,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-278958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ancestral-routes","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-kalamazoo-river","11":"tag-kayak-trip","12":"tag-nhbp-tribal-members","13":"tag-nottawaseppi-huron-band","14":"tag-oil-spill","15":"tag-river-recovery","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-stewardship","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115320265400915765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}