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Mi’kmaq grandmothers
The Indigenous grandmothers who stopped a pipeline
Plans to flush out salt caverns for gas storage hit a wall of Mi’kmaq grandmothers
Wolastoqey women Act
“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.
Tracy Charette Fehr
Métis artist’s Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibit goes back 250 years to honour women in her family | CBC News
Tracy Charette Fehr traced the history of seven generations of Métis women in her family back to 1770 and crafted 250 handmade, fire-smoked bowls to recognize those women in her new exhibit.
Good Reading
Recommended Books by Indigenous Women Authors | NIWRC
View NIWRC’s list of recommended books and publications authored by Indigenous women.
Indigenous women fight back
Enbridge, the Canadian energy company behind Line 3, claims it is merely replacing a 60-year-old pipeline that is likely to corrode and leak if it isn’t updated. But opponents see the plan as an expansion of it, because it will carry twice the amount of oil. Houska says Line 3 violates Anishinaabe rights granted under the 1837 White Pine Treaty by endangering wild rice, a plant unique to the region and sacred to her tribe. The pipeline faces legal challenges from tribes, environmental groups, and even the Minnesota Department of Commerce, all of which say the environmental risks far exceed the need for additional oil.
A pipeline is threatening their homeland. Indigenous women are fighting back.
To tribal attorney Tara Houska, the fight against the Line 3 pipeline is a fight for future generations.
Moe Clark
Amazing album from multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark
4 tracks 30 mins each an album of podcasts/spoken word featuring voices of youths, elders, artists and healers. its pay what you can and also has links to indigenous resistance groups
Kokum Rap
Indigenous Women reclaiming leadership
Today, contemporary indigenous women are taking the matter into their own hands and showing the public how to rethink, reframe, and relearn a new American-Canadian story that seamlessly incorporates the voices of indigenous women.
5 Indigenous Women Asserting the Modern Matriarchy – YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism
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