Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #anishinaabe, aggregated by home.social.
Ottawa public art project invites residents to sit with Algonquin Anishinaabe art
For Algonquin Anishinaabe artist Jade Rogers-Baptiste, one of the most rewarding aspects of her creative process is watching…
#Canada #Ottawa #Algonquin #anishinaabe #art #ByronLinearTramwayPark #CityofOttawa #JadeRogers-Baptiste #Rogers-Baptiste #SylviaTennisco
https://www.europesays.com/canada/231177/
#Anishinaabe Insights: A closer look at #TEK - #IndigenousKnowledge finds its way into science & policy.
By Michael Waasegiizhig Price, GLIFWC TEK Specialist
Excerpt: " #Indigenous #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge is not about human beings saving the earth, but rather, it is about us, as human beings, saving ourselves. As #OrenLyons, Faithkeeper of the #OnondagaNation, stated, ' #Nature has no mercy, only law. If you don’t abide by the law, you suffer the consequences.' I believe that the understanding of natural law comes from the lifeways and wisdom of #IndigenousPeoples from all over the earth. The integration of Indigenous knowledge and science is a noble effort to preserve and honor our existence on this planet, the #EarthMother of us all."
Read more:
https://glifwc.org/about-us/news/anishinaabe-insights-closer-look-tek-indigenous-knowledge-finds-its-way-science
#SolarPunkSunday #LoTEK #IndigenousSolutions #ClimateResilience #KnowledgeKeepers #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge
#ThunderBayON - City Spaces - Honouring Indigenous Space and Place
"The City of Thunder Bay is committed to honouring and celebrating Indigenous space and place. The Indigenous Relations and Inclusion Office will work to collaborate on new place-making initiatives and opportunities for welcoming spaces in the city to identify heritage recognition and honour history and culture by maintaining and enhancing existing spaces.
The #SpiritGarden
The Spirit Garden was built in collaboration with Indigenous and city partners through the Prince Arthur’s Landing development, which was completed in 2011. The Spirit Garden is a space to honour the history and cultures of Indigenous peoples in the city. The Circle is reflected in the overall design of the spaces to represent inclusiveness and bridging of worldviews.
The #HonouringCircle (#SacredFire)
On the shore of #Kitchigami (Big Ocean/Lake Superior) looking East with #Nanabijou (Sleeping Giant) on the horizon, the Honouring Circle maintains the vision of honouring #TurtleIsland through its configuring of stones surrounding the fire pit. The fire pit is also placed in the centre of the Medicine Wheel, to honour the teaching principles of the #Anishinaabe.
The #HonouringCircle is a place of contemplation, ceremony and contribution. The Anishinaabe have always recognized the geographic and cultural importance of this area.
The #CelebrationCircle (Outdoor Theatre) – Within The Spirit Garden
The form of the Celebration Circle is inspired by #RoyThomas’ concept for the space to pay homage to Turtle Island based on the Anishinaabe Creation Story. The site was designed in collaboration between Indigenous artist and architect #RyanGorrie of Thunder Bay and #BrookMcIlroy architects. Its form is inspired by traditional Anishinaabe bentwood building techniques using wood harvested by #IndigenousArtist #GeorgePrice and fabricated at #FortWilliamFirstNation.
The Circle symbolizes an '#inclusive circle' between all people and creation and is a way to honour the local Indigenous and Original Peoples of the land. It serves as a common ground – a spiritual place, a place of meditation and celebration gathering together all cultures. This space is embraced as a teaching and gathering space where stories can be shared from the perspective of the First Nations peoples who have lived on this shoreline for millennia.
St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School Memorial
Learn more about the St. Joseph’s Residential School Memorial site on the Doors Open Ontario website."
Learn more:
https://www.thunderbay.ca/en/city-hall/city-spaces.aspx#The-Spirit-Garden
#SolarPunkSunday #ThunderBay #IndigenousGardens #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousHistory #Earth4All #CulturalPreservation #HonoringIndigenousHistory
ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ (Anishinaabe) chiefs upset with Hydro-Québec compensation talks
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/hydro-quebec-algonquin-talks-deal-compensation-9.7280510
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Les chefs ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ (Anishinabeg) déçus des pourparlers pour un règlement avec Hydro-Québec
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2271002/premieres-nations-inegal-hydro-quebec
#Anishinaabe #Anishinabeg #FirstNations #PremièresNations #Québec #HydroQuébec
The Farmer’s Word: Winona LaDuke, a False Etymology, and the True Root of “Colonization”
A reader sent me a video clip. In it, Winona LaDuke opens a talk on colonization by reaching for the dictionary, and the first thing she says is wrong. LaDuke is Anishinaabe, from White Earth in northern Minnesota. She trained as an economist, ran twice for vice president on the Green Party ticket, wrote All Our Relations, and has spent four decades on wild rice, pipelines, and land recovery. Rooms fill when she speaks. So when she tells an audience that colonization "has the same root as the word colon" and that the root "means to digest," that line travels. It is vivid, it is anatomical, it is easy to repeat, and it is the sentence people carry home. It is also folklore. This is a claim about the history of a word; no lexicon supports it, and it collapses the moment anyone opens a Greek dictionary. The rest of her argument is largely sound and in places understated. That is exactly why the false root matters. An argument this strong should not be walking around with a demolition charge strapped to its opening line. […]
Winnipeg cops unveil ‘reconciliation’ cruiser — but critics are unimpressed | Spare News
The Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) proudly showed off the newest tool in its law enforcement arsenal last week:…
#Canada #Winnipeg #anishinaabe #Budget #community #cruiser #drug #Indigenouspeoples #Police #policecar #Policeofficer #policepower(unitedstatesconstitutionallaw) #socialissues #SpareNews #WinnipegPoliceService
https://www.europesays.com/canada/122485/
Ask the expert: Indigenous science fiction explained | MSUToday https://www.byteseu.com/2117604/ #Anishinaabé #BlaireMorseau #futurism #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousFuturism #IndigenousScienceFiction #IndigenousSovereignty #IndigenousStudies #MichiganStateUniversity #NativeStorytelling #Potawatomi #ReligiousStudies #SciFi #Science #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeStorytelling
#LaPointeWI - #MadelineIsland #CommunityGarden
"The Madeline Island Community Garden acknowledges that we garden on the land of the ancestral and contemporary #Anishinaabe, home to the #Ojibwe people. We affirm our commitment to support community wide discussion and education about indigenous sovereignty and history, and to encourage respect for the stories and sacredness this land has for the Ojibwe people.
"The garden offers a place for gardeners to grow their own food, as well as providing seasonal produce for the #FoodPantry at St. John’s Church.
Our garden is an ever-evolving creation…a fertile ground for producing nutritious local food, nurturing friendships, and connecting more closely to the processes of nature. The year’s unfolding brings unexpected delights as seeds sprout, flowers bloom, and vegetables mature and are gathered for harvest. Gardening can be challenging in this northern climate with frustratingly short growing seasons, unexpected early and late frosts, years with too much or too little rain, heavy clay soils, and of course the ubiquitous insects, weeds, and herbivores. Deer, rabbits, and voles love our fresh garden produce as much as we do! Many hands and many hearts have worked together to build a place that can sustain both body and soul of community members.
Our garden has a combination of individual growing plots for rent, as well as communal areas where a variety of crops are grown. Each season we work to supply fresh, local produce to the food shelf at St. John’s UCC.
The Madeline Island Community Garden is open sunup to sundown daily for plot renters to come and work in their space, harvest, or simply enjoy. As the garden is on leased private property and adjacent to a residence, please contact us for a tour and visit. We’d love to show you around!"
FMI:
https://www.madelineislandcommunitygarden.org/
#SolarPunkSunday #GrowingFood #BuildingCommunity #CommunityGardens #FoodSecurity
After offering asemaa <tobacco>, I grabbed some red willow to make dreamcatchers.
I gotta wait a few weeks for them to dry before applying the sinew to actually weave the web part.
I was taught this from my late grandmother back then.
Here's a one-shot class on birds in Anishinaabemowin. I took one before and loved it. Shows how bird names tell you whole stories about nature. https://www.naturalcuriosity.ca/birdsofanishinaabeaki #birds #language #linguistics #Indigedon #Indigenous #Anishinaabemowin #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe
@Earl @ZenHeathen Different culture, different way of thinking of things. The Eagle is love, which is new to me. Maybe the 'giant' represents the giant level of importance in society honesty should have? Maybe be who you appear to be -- be honest that way?
If there are any #FIrstNations or #Anishinaabe reading this, maybe you can help us understand this better.
On the way, astronaut Hansen has a mission patch " graciously created by Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond. " https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/missions/artemis-ii/jeremy-hansen-patch.asp #Artemis2 #Integrity #JeremyHansen #CSA #Anishinaabe
From the report in which I had a number of image prompts created: #Haudenosaunee ( #Iroquois ) & #Anishinaabe: The World on the #Turtle’s Back In many Indigenous cultures of North America, the continent is referred to as "Turtle Island." The turtle is the foundation of existence, ...
“This comes at great cost to #Anishinaabe people indigenous to the region, for whom #wildrice is central to cultural, spiritual, and economic life.” daily.jstor.org/wild-rice-an... #rightsofnature
Wild Rice and the Rights of Na...
Here’s some TIL info about Native Americans that you didn’t ask for…
Anishinaabe and Ojibwe are often used interchangeably. But they are not the same. Anishinaabe is a group of nations that includes Ojibwe.
I know this because my great nieces are half Ojibwe.
So…there it is. Now you know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anishinaabe
#NativeAmerican #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #TIL #Indigenous #FirstNations
#ICE Murdered Legal Observer in #Minneapolis -- Now Detaining Four #OglalaLakota in Migrant Sweeps
""There are 8,000 Red Lake residents currently living in the Twin Cities in the immediate neighborhoods where ICE is presently terrorizing residents," the #RedLakeNation said, expressing deep concern that #Ojibwe, known as #Chippewa and #Anishinaabe, will be abused."
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Jan. 8, 2026
"Oglala President #FrankStarComesOut said, 'I have been made aware that #ICE (Department of Homeland Security) has detained four of our tribal members in #Minneapolis,' Star Comes Out said late today.
" 'The four men are homeless and were living under the bridge near the #LittleEarth housing project. A bystander (also an #OglalaSioux Tribal Member) was able to get the information out of them that they are members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe but did not get names."
"The Oglala Lakota Nation in #PineRidge, South Dakota, issued a statement for Oglala to identify themselves as U.S. citizens and advised them to make this statement: 'Because I am both a tribal citizen and U.S. citizen, ICE has no lawful authority to detain me.'
"President Frank Star Comes Out pointed out that the Treaties affirm a nation-to-nation relationship with the United States, and advised Oglala not to speak without an attorney present.
"Oglala Sioux Tribal attorneys are reaching out to Minnesota Lt. Gov. #PeggyFlanagan about where the four Lakotas are being detained and what their names are. The Tribal Council and executive officers have also been informed, he said."
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/01/ice-murdered-legal-observer-in.html
#ICEOut #ICESucks #MurderPatrol #ReaderSupportedNews #NativeAmericansAreAmericans
Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times
“It's all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.https://murica.website/2025/10/resisting-ice-building-worlds-care-and-survival-in-fascistic-times/
by Jessica Milgroom
"Wild rice is a food of great historical, spiritual, and cultural importance for Ojibwe people. After #colonization disrupted their #TraditionalFoodSystem, however, they could no longer depend on stores of wild rice for food all year round. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, this traditional staple was appropriated by white entrepreneurs and marketed as a gourmet commodity. Native and non-Native people alike began to harvest rice to sell it for cash, threatening the health of the natural stands of the crop. This lucrative market paved the way for domestication of the plant, and farmers began cultivating it in paddies in the late 1960s. In the twenty-first century, many Ojibwe and other Native people are fighting to sustain the hand-harvested wild rice tradition and to protect wild rice beds.
"Ojibwe people arrived in present-day Minnesota in the 1600s after a long migration from the east coast of the United States that lasted many centuries. Together with their #Anishinaabe kin, the #Potawatomi and #Odawa, they followed a vision that told them to search for their homeland in a place 'where the food floats on water.' The Ojibwe recognized this as the wild rice they found growing around Lake Superior (#Gichigami), and they settled on the sacred site of what is known today as #MadelineIsland (#Mooningwaanekaaning).
"In the Ojibwe language, wild rice (Zizania palustris) is called #manoomin, which is related by analogy to a word (minomin) meaning 'good berry.' It is a highly nutritious wild grain that is gathered from lakes and waterways by canoe in late August and early September, during the wild rice moon (manoominike giizis).
"Before contact with Europeans and as late as the early twentieth century, Ojibwe people depended on wild rice as a crucial part of their diet, together with berries, fish, meat, vegetables, and maple sugar. They moved their camps throughout the year, depending on the activities of seasonal food gathering. In autumn, families moved to a location close to a lake with a promising stand of wild rice and stayed there for the duration of the season. Men hunted and fished while women harvested rice, preparing food for their families to eat throughout the following winter, spring, and summer."
Read more:
https://www3.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/thing/wild-rice-and-ojibwe
#TraditionalFoods #WildRiceHistory #NativeAmericanHistory #FoodHistory #IndigenousPeople #IndigenousPeoplesDay #FoodSovereignty #SolarPunkSunday
Oil Pipeline Threatens Catastrophe for Tribes in Michigan – Again
In 2010, an Enbridge pipeline burst. Tribes are concerned about another one built without their permission 72 years ago.https://murica.website/2025/10/oil-pipeline-threatens-catastrophe-for-tribes-in-michigan-again/
The woman in the second pic, far left, is Anishinaabe (indigenous) and gave a speech of solidarity and support against genocide in Gaza.
by Jessica Milgroom
"Wild rice is a food of great historical, spiritual, and cultural importance for Ojibwe people. After colonization disrupted their traditional food system, however, they could no longer depend on stores of wild rice for food all year round. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, this traditional staple was appropriated by white entrepreneurs and marketed as a gourmet commodity. Native and non-Native people alike began to harvest rice to sell it for cash, threatening the health of the natural stands of the crop. This lucrative market paved the way for domestication of the plant, and farmers began cultivating it in paddies in the late 1960s. In the twenty-first century, many Ojibwe and other Native people are fighting to sustain the hand-harvested wild rice tradition and to protect wild rice beds.
"Ojibwe people arrived in present-day Minnesota in the 1600s after a long migration from the east coast of the United States that lasted many centuries. Together with their #Anishinaabe kin, the Potawatomi and Odawa, they followed a vision that told them to search for their homeland in a place 'where the food floats on water.' The Ojibwe recognized this as the wild rice they found growing around Lake Superior (Gichigami), and they settled on the sacred site of what is known today as Madeline Island (#Mooningwaanekaaning).
"In the Ojibwe language, wild rice (Zizania palustris) is called manoomin, which is related by analogy to a word (minomin) meaning 'good berry.'” It is a highly nutritious wild grain that is gathered from lakes and waterways by canoe in late August and early September, during the wild rice moon (manoominike giizis).
"Before contact with Europeans and as late as the early twentieth century, Ojibwe people depended on wild rice as a crucial part of their diet, together with berries, fish, meat, vegetables, and maple sugar. They moved their camps throughout the year, depending on the activities of seasonal food gathering. In autumn, families moved to a location close to a lake with a promising stand of wild rice and stayed there for the duration of the season.
[...]
RESTORATION AND REGULATION
"As far back as the 1930s, the health of wild rice beds has been a serious concern. In 1939 Minnesota passed a law outlawing mechanized harvest and limiting how and when wild rice could be harvested. Since then, it has enacted other protective policies, including limiting the number of hours in the day during which it is permissible to rice and limiting the length of the canoe used for ricing. In the 1990s, wild rice was identified as an endangered food. The plant is sensitive to water levels altered by dams as well as road construction, pollution, poor harvesting practices, invasive species, genetic engineering (genetic contamination of the wild rice from the paddies), and climate change.
"In response to these threats, Ojibwe and other Native people organized. For example, in 1994, the Fond du Lac and Bois Forte bands developed a '#WildRiceRestorationPlan for the St. Louis River Watershed' designed to restore lost stands of the crop and manage its harvest. In the same decade, the company Native Harvest (part of the White Earth Land Recovery Project) began to sell hand-harvested wild rice, and multiple bands formed reservation wild-rice committees to manage harvests.
"In the 2020s, Ojibwe people continue to defend and protect this vital plant and the cultural, health, and spiritual importance that it holds. Individuals as well as tribes organize ricing camps to teach traditional practices of ricing, parching, and finishing. Others are actively fighting against the Enbridge #Line3 #OilPipeline replacement project that would cross wild rice habitat, or collaborating in a movement for Native food sovereignty."
https://www3.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/thing/wild-rice-and-ojibwe
#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSovereignty #WaterIsLife #FoodIsLife #NativeAmericanFoodSovereignty #FoodSovereignty #Foodsecurity #TraditionalFoods #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousFood
The #Ojibwe (/oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/ ⓘ; syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an #Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ)[3] covers much of the Great Lakes region he northeastern woodlands. The Ojibwe, be
I am glad he has corrected himself, and now he must not repeat the mistake.
"Ford apologizes for saying First Nations 'keep coming hat in hand' amid Bill 5 controversy:
Anishinabek Nation Grand Council chief says Ontario premier has 'owned what he said' and 'corrected himself' "
#canada #firstnations #bill5 #indigenous #treatyrights #ontario #canpol #onpoli #canpoli #indigenousrights #onpol #fasttrackapprovals #minerals #anishinaabe #dougford #RingOfFireDevelopment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-first-nations-apology-1.7566080
An excellent rtead.
In ‘Wînipêk,’ an Affirming Indigenous Vision for the Future
Reading Niigaan Sinclair helps us to see Winnipeg with fresh eyes — and #Canada too.
#Wînipêk #Anishinaabe #Kanata #FirstNations #Indigenous
#Winnipeg #Manitoba #Ontario,
#Manitoba, #NorthDakota,
#SouthDakota, #Michigan #Wisconsin
r/t Christine @204queenb
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/08/09/Winipek-Affirming-Indigenous-Vision-Future/
With permission from my client, here are the artworks I made for them of recent. (See AltText for art details.)
#Art #IndigenousArt #IndigiArt #NativeArt #Indigenous #Anishinaabe #MixedMedia
🟡 Anishinaabe Ojibwe Women Birchbark Canoe Wild Rice 1800s Minnesota
#Anishinaabe, #BirchbarkCanoe, #GreatLakes, #Harvest, #Indian, #Indigenous, #Mid19thCentury, #Minnesota, #Native, #Ojibwe, #SethEastman, #WildRice, #women
Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed
Prints, T-Shirts, Stickers, & More by @rocketshipretro via RedBubble → https://bigplanetprints.com/go/Wk50n8
#Anishinaabe Elder explains significance of water ahead of #WorldWaterDay
by Ryan Dwight MacTavish | March 12, 2025
"Water is not just a resource — it is sacred. It is our first medicine, as we are all born of water. It connects us to the land, to the ancestors, and to future generations. In #Indigenous worldviews, water is a living relative that must be treated with reverence. The more I have come to understand the vital role water plays in the health of our people and our planet, the more I recognize that protecting it is not just an environmental issue, but a spiritual and cultural responsibility."
Read more:
https://uwimprint.ca/anishinaabe-elder-explains-significance-of-water-ahead-of-world-water-day/
#WaterIsLife #WaterIsSacred
#WinonaLaDuke: #DAPLPipeline Lawsuit Against #Greenpeace Aims to Silence #Indigenous #Protests, Too
#DemocracyNow, March 04, 2025
"As the oil company Energy Transfer sues Greenpeace over the 2016 #StandingRock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, we speak with #IndigenousActivist Winona LaDuke, who took part in that historic uprising. LaDuke is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of #Anishinaabe who lives and works on the White Earth Nation Reservation and was among the thousands of people who joined the protests in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protect water and Indigenous lands in North Dakota. She highlights the close links between North Dakota’s government and Energy Transfer and says that while the lawsuit targets Greenpeace, Indigenous water and land defenders are also on trial. 'North Dakota has really been trying to squash any kind of #resistance,' says LaDuke. 'If they can try to shut down Greenpeace, they’re going to shut down everybody.'"
Watch / listen / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/4/winona_laduke
#ViewerSupportedNews #StandWithStandingRock #WaterIsLife #NoDAPL #KelcyWarren #Trump #BigOil #CorporateColonialism #BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #StandingRock #SLAPPs #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #SLAPPsLawsuits #SilencingDissent #ACAB #EnergyTransfer #UnicornRiot #CriminalizingDissent #ACAB #Blackwater #ErikPrince
The Most Toxic Substance on Earth – and the Tiny Town Volunteering to Host It
The fraught quest for a safe site to bury #NuclearWaste
by William Leiss Updated 8:12, Jan. 13, 2025
"In a landmark decision announced this past November, Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization, or the #NWMO, selected the municipality of Ignace in Northwestern Ontario as the site for the country’s first deep geological repository—DGR—for spent nuclear fuel. The repository is to be located within the traditional territory of the #WabigoonLakeOjibway Nation, forty-three kilometres from Ignace.
[...]
"The Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation—WLON—or #WabigoonFirstNation, based in the Kenora district southeast of Dryden and a member of Grand Council Treaty 3, is the First Nation partner for the NWMO in the Ignace area. Treaty 3 encompasses 55,000 square metres and stretches from eastern Manitoba to just west of Thunder Bay; it includes twenty-eight communities of #Anishinaabe peoples, located in Northwestern #Ontario and southeastern #Manitoba, with a total population of about 25,000. The WLON is a Saulteaux First Nation band and, as of 2021, had a registered population of 822, with an on-reserve population of 186 residing at Wabigoon Lake 27 Indian Reserve who operate a wild rice processing plant, a logging business, and a tree nursery there. The consultations over the possible DGR siting in the Ignace area led to some quite acrimonious public controversy among a number of First Nations communities, many of which are very close to each other in an area at the southernmost corner of the extreme northwestern edge of Ontario, near both the Manitoba and US borders."
Read more:
https://thewalrus.ca/the-most-toxic-substance-on-earth-and-the-tiny-town-volunteering-to-host-it/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#EnvironmentalRacism #NoNukes #NuclearWaste
In other news, I've confirmed DNA connections to my ancestors from the #WhiteCraneClan of the #Ojibwe / #Anishinaabe people. I'll be applying for #Metis membership because it does mean something to me. And I want to support the local Metis #PowWows and members of other tribes who have accepted me even before I confirmed my heritage.
#NuclearColonialism v. #RedPower
"The world has no shortage of #PoliticalPrisoners – or of environmental martyrs and heroes– but 80-year-old #LeonardPeltier, a #Lakota and #Anishinaabe AIM member, is arguably the most famous, the legal lynching he underwent so outrageous, and his incarceration in a 'maximum security' prison so protracted. Even former FBI agents have themselves essentially contended that Pelter was scapegoated by the FBI for the lethal shooting of two agents–Jack Coler and Ronald Williams– on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Michael Apted’s 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala, narrated by Robert Redford, is a good place to start if you’re new to this history. But if you’re looking for insights into the role that #UraniumMining played in the conflict, you’d be better off checking out #PeterMatthiessen’s book #InTheSpiritOfCrazyHorse: Leonard Peltier and the #FBI’s War on The #AmericanIndian ovement. To hear a first-hand account, check out Peltier’s memoir #PrisonWritings: My Life Is My Sun Dance.
"Despite well-documented prosecutorial misconduct powerfully depicted in Apted’s documentary, Peltier’s conviction has yet to be overturned. And in the face of decades of global, high-profile pleas for clemency for Peltier, including by James Reynolds, a “senior US attorney who was involved in [his] prosecution,” no president up until now has been willing to free Peltier. Given that he’s in increasingly poor health, time is running out, and the same president who just pardoned his own son may be Peltier’s last shot at clemency. If you haven’t yet done so, check out the Amnesty International petition– and Amy Goodman’s and Denis Moynihan’s recent column–making the case for his release. The Red Nation media collective also has an extensive playlist of podcasts focused on Peltier’s case and the long struggle to free him.
"Peltier, arguably the world’s most visible casualty of nuclear colonialism, was only three years into his sentence when Santee Dakota organizer John Trudell, his contemporary in AIM, delivered a searing 1980 speech at the Black Hills International Survival Gathering. As Zoltan Grossman has documented, 'Multinational mining companies, such as #UnionCarbide and #Exxon, proposed the development of the #BlackHills for energy resources, including #coal mines, #uranium mines, and coal slurry #pipelines.' The Black Hills gathering brought together a global convergence of more than 10,000 Indigenous activists and non-Native allies to hold the line against a repeat of the 1950s, which, per Grossman, had 'result[ed] in the extensive irradiation of the southern Black Hills community of #Edgemont.'"
Read more:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/11/tis-the-season-to-talk-climate-collapse-nuclear-colonialism-and-freeing-leonard-peltier/
#FreeLeonardPeltier #ClemencyForLeonardPeltier #ACAB #AmnestyForLeonardPeltier #SilencingDissent #NoUraniumMining
A set of gifts from two different people which are tied. The Serviceberry (book) and a pemmican strip.
Anyone else read this book? I loved it -- a fairly quick read, but with some pretty profound ideas that will take much longer to digest. In my case it is in addition to other books discussing #Anishinaabe worldviews -- which make so much more sense to me personally than Western (European, British, etc) worldviews.
#Canada is expected to present a settlement offer this week to the #FirstNations of Robinson Superior #treaty territory in a longstanding case involving annuities owed to the #Indigenous #Anishinaabe on the northern shores of the #GreatLakes.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Talks on how many billions in ...
In other news, I've managed to confirm my connection to the White Crane Clan of the #Ojibwe / #Anishinaabe both genealogically and through DNA, and I might also be connected with the Bear Clan. I'll be sending my genealogical materials to #Métis of #Maine soon. I hope to become a member before 2025 #PowWow season begins.
The growing movement of #Indigenous leaders across #NorthernOntario opposing #NuclearWaste dump
'We live off the land every day. It’s the most precious food market we have in the world'
October 3, 2024
Jon Thompson
"#FirstNations opposing nuclear waste burial in northwestern Ontario are growing in number and are now mobilizing across the region.
"A fledgling movement of Indigenous leaders hosted a small rally with non-Indigenous allies in #ThunderBay on Wednesday, with a refrain of 'Gaa-Wiin,' the #Anishinaabemowin word meaning 'no' to nuclear waste burial.
"The demonstration followed a letter signed by nine chiefs last week, asking the Nuclear Waste Management Organization to respect their will not to bury Canada’s most #radioactive nuclear waste in a #DeepRepository site between the town of #Ignace and #WabigoonLake #Ojibway First Nation.
"The #NWMO is expected to issue a final decision by year’s end as to whether it will transport used #NuclearFuel, produced since the 1960s, by either train or highway over 1,600 kilometres to a deep geological repository. If the Ignace is chosen over Bruce County, where nuclear energy and its waste is produced, transportation would begin in the 2040s and will take 40 years to complete.
"Although the site selection process has been underway for 20 years, the looming final decision has prompted political actions, including a larger #ThunderBay demonstration in April and a march last month along the highway near the proposed site.
"'I don’t know why some people just don’t understand,' Asubpeeschoseewagong #Anishinabek (#GrassyNarrows First Nation) #ChiefRudyTurtle told the crowd of around 300 people. 'It’s so simple: no means no. That’s all it is. Why can’t you understand that? We are saying no, we don’t want nuclear waste.'"
"Thirteen First Nations have now signed on to last week’s statement opposing the repository, including #NorthwestAngle #33, whose leadership committed to the cause on Wednesday. Signatories include #FortWilliamFirstNation, #Gakijiwanong #Anishinaabe (#LacLaCroix First Nation), #GullBayFirstNation, #Kitchenuhmaykoosib #Inninuwug (#BigTroutLake First Nation), #MuskratDam First Nation, #Neskantaga First Nation, #NetmizaaggamigNishnaabeg (Pic Mobert First Nation), #Ojibways of #Onigaming, #ShoalLake #40 First Nation, #Wapekeka First Nation, #WauzhushkOnigum Nation."
#NoNukes #NoWar #NuclearWasteDump #InformedConsent #CanadaFirstNations #NuclearTransport #NativeAmericanNews
Two of the #Indigenous ribbon skirt #instructors from #SNIWWOC event. #BIPOC womens' weekend cultural learning & sharing workshop.
They're #cousins.
Waubshki-Migisi / Elaine Kwandibens (in blue)
Eliaine is from the #Anishiinabek community of #WhitesandFirstNation in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Indigenous beader & textile crafts specialist.
https://www.loonsturgeon.ca/
Kristina Netemegesic is #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe & also connected to the #Tsawwassen #FirstNation. She's a student support worker at SNIWWOC & moving to Victoria next year to start school at Camosun College. Kristina is an Indigenous #beader & sewer. She's been beading since age 6.
https://anishnaabeads.etsy.com