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.
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.
‘Snake’s blood’: Quechan Tribe prepares for a fight over a gold mine on ancestral lands
In 2009, the Quechan Tribe stopped plans for a gold mine near important tribal areas. Now they’re ready for another battle over a new mine.
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
Hunters have blockaded the airstrip and tote road to a Nunavut mine to express their concern that Inuit voices are not being heard in environmental hearings about a planned expansion to the Mary River mine.
Nunavut mine blockade to continue until concerns are addressed, say Inuit hunters | CBC News
Hunters have blockaded the airstrip and tote road to a Nunavut mine to express their concern that Inuit voices are not being heard in environmental hearings about a planned expansion to the Mary River mine.
Dr Mark Jaccard of Simon Fraser University calculated the carbon emissions of the entire Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project with the proposed expansion to be 71,100,000 metric tons (71.1 Mt) of Co2e annually. According to the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, that would be like adding 15,095,541 passenger vehicles driven for one year.
Trans Mountain Is a Major Climate Problem – Last Real Indians
Since the Trans Mountain Pipeline and Tanker Project was proposed in 2009, global concern over the climate crisis has grown exponentially. Almost every sector of industry has adapted their future plans to take the Climate Emergency into account — oil and gas is lagging behind. Major projects like
When Judaism and Christianity rose to become the dominant religious force in Western society, their sole god – as well as sacredness and salvation – were re-positioned outside of nature. The Old Testament taught that God made humans in his own image and gave them dominion over the Earth.
Humanity and nature are not separate – we must see them as one to fix the climate crisis
Humans did not always see themselves as he separate from the natural world. If we are to reverse its decline, we must re-entangle ourselves with it.
Indigenous storytelling tradition, Life in the City of Dirty Water is a series of intimate vignettes that weave together the remarkable life of Indigenous climate change activist, Clayton Thomas-Muller. “This is my story. It is the story of many Indigenous Peoples who find themselves in one of Canada’s inner cities with questions. It is the story of how we became dispossessed and how we rise.” The film plunges audiences into an immersive storytelling journey, discovering the people and places and traumas and triumphs that shaped Clayton’s identity and cosmology. More info at Life in the city of Dirty Water
