Today the Sun and the Moon dance together, bound in a sacred union!
Stories from the Land of Crane and Turtle, part 5: Wenabozho and the Disappearance of the Sun
Wiinabozho and the Disappearance of the Sun. A sacred Anishinaabe tale told by Zhaawano Giizhik, woven around a platinum ring mounted with a black diamond.
“We have a right to be consulted in our own land,” said Andrea Polchies of Woodstock First Nation, who came out to the lake with her canoe at midnight Monday, the night before the spraying was scheduled to start.
Spraying of rotenone in Miramichi watershed held off for second day | CBC News
Wolastoqey grandmothers and mothers who have been canoeing on Miramichi Lake since Monday say they’re prepared to stay as long as is necessary to prevent the spraying of rotenone, a fish-killing pesticide.
Because these wild-looking forest gardens don’t fit conventional Western notions of agriculture, it took a long time for researchers to recognize them as a human-created landscape at all.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/pacific-northwest-s-forest-gardens-were-deliberately-planted-indigenous-people
The Cheyenne River Sioux have chosen to follow the path of science and set up checkpoints on roads coming into the Reservation.
Native Americans wage war against new virus and a 400-year disease of bias, ignorance | Will Bunch
As a virus ravages other tribes, South Dakota’s Native Americans make a stand to protect their people. Sadly, we’ve been here before.
A federal judge ruled today that the US Army Corps of Engineers violated the law when it approved Nationwide Permit 12, a key water crossing permit for TC Energy’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and many other pipelines nationwide.
PRESS RELEASE: Yet Again, Federal Court Invalidates Key Permit for Keystone XL | Bold Nebraska
Rosebud Sioux Tribe Spirit Camp, 2014 (Photo: Matt Sloan / Bold Nebraska) For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Yet Again, Federal Court Invalidates Key Permit for Keystone XL Court blocks the use of Nationwide Permit 12 for pipeline water crossings Great Falls, MT – A federal judge ruled today (see ruling below) that the US Army Corps of Engineers violated the law when it approved Nationwide Permit 12, a key water crossing permit for TC Energy’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and many other pipelines nationwide.
A federal judge in Alaska has declared that President Trump’s order revoking a sweeping ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans is illegal, putting 128 million acres of federal waters off limits to energy exploration.U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, also on Friday blocked a land swap the Interior Department had arranged that would pave the way for constructing a road through wilderness in a major national wildlife refuge in Alaska.
Judge throws out Trump order and restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic
A federal judge in Alaska has declared that President Trump’s order revoking a sweeping ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans is illegal, putting 128 million acres of federal waters off limits to energy exploration.
As Casey Camp-Horinek, an environmentalist and matriarch of the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma, points out, the rights-of-nature movement “simply recognizes what the indigenous people have always been a part of: the natural cycle of life belonging to all living things, not just humans.”
Environmentalism’s next frontier: giving nature legal rights
Ships and corporations have legal standing. Should ecosystems?