#anishinaabe — Public Fediverse posts

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.

“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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#WildRice and the #Ojibwe

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

#WildRice and the #Ojibwe

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

The woman in the second pic, far left, is Anishinaabe (indigenous) and gave a speech of solidarity and support against genocide in Gaza.

#Gaza #genocide #Anishinaabe #indigenous #intersectionality

#WildRice and the #Ojibwe

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

#WildRice and the #Ojibwe

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

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

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

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

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

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/

🟡 Anishinaabe Ojibwe Women Birchbark Canoe Wild Rice 1800s Minnesota⁣
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#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.

#MétisOfMaine #MétisPowow #TwoSpirit

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."

Read more:
https://ricochet.media/indigenous/the-growing-movement-of-indigenous-leaders-across-northern-ontario-opposing-nuclear-waste-dump/

#NoNukes #NoWar #NuclearWasteDump #InformedConsent #CanadaFirstNations #NuclearTransport #NativeAmericanNews

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."

Read more:
https://ricochet.media/indigenous/the-growing-movement-of-indigenous-leaders-across-northern-ontario-opposing-nuclear-waste-dump/

#NoNukes #NoWar #NuclearWasteDump #InformedConsent #CanadaFirstNations #NuclearTransport #NativeAmericanNews

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."

Read more:
https://ricochet.media/indigenous/the-growing-movement-of-indigenous-leaders-across-northern-ontario-opposing-nuclear-waste-dump/

#NoNukes #NoWar #NuclearWasteDump #InformedConsent #CanadaFirstNations #NuclearTransport #NativeAmericanNews

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."

Read more:
https://ricochet.media/indigenous/the-growing-movement-of-indigenous-leaders-across-northern-ontario-opposing-nuclear-waste-dump/

#NoNukes #NoWar #NuclearWasteDump #InformedConsent #CanadaFirstNations #NuclearTransport #NativeAmericanNews

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."

Read more:
https://ricochet.media/indigenous/the-growing-movement-of-indigenous-leaders-across-northern-ontario-opposing-nuclear-waste-dump/

#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

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

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

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

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

#uppermichigan #UP #michigan #travel #adventure #vanlife #rvlife #winnebago #winnebagoera #lakemichigan #stignace #picnic #ojibwe #anishinaabe #birch #rvpark #lakeshorerv https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/--17-19jun2024

#uppermichigan #UP #michigan #travel #adventure #vanlife #rvlife #winnebago #winnebagoera #lakemichigan #stignace #picnic #ojibwe #anishinaabe #birch #rvpark #lakeshorerv https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/--17-19jun2024

#uppermichigan #UP #michigan #travel #adventure #vanlife #rvlife #winnebago #winnebagoera #lakemichigan #stignace #picnic #ojibwe #anishinaabe #birch #rvpark #lakeshorerv https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/--17-19jun2024

#uppermichigan #UP #michigan #travel #adventure #vanlife #rvlife #winnebago #winnebagoera #lakemichigan #stignace #picnic #ojibwe #anishinaabe #birch #rvpark #lakeshorerv https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/--17-19jun2024

#uppermichigan #UP #michigan #travel #adventure #vanlife #rvlife #winnebago #winnebagoera #lakemichigan #stignace #picnic #ojibwe #anishinaabe #birch #rvpark #lakeshorerv https://natureisourmedicine.com/f/--17-19jun2024

Biography: Winona LaDuke

"#WinonaLaDuke, a #NativeAmerican #activist, economist, and author, has devoted her life to advocating for #Indigenous control of their homelands, natural resources, and cultural practices. She combines economic and #environmental approaches in her efforts to create a thriving and sustainable community for her own White Earth reservation and Indigenous populations across the country.

"Winona LaDuke was born in Los Angeles, California on August 18, 1959 to parents Vincent and Betty (Bernstein) LaDuke. Her father, also known as #SunBear, was #Anishinaabe (or #Ojibwe) from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. He was an actor, writer, and activist. Her mother was an artist and activist. LaDuke is an #Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band #Anishinaabeg. Her father brought her to powwows and other tribal functions, events that made a deep impression on the young LaDuke. LaDuke’s parents divorced when she was five and she moved with her mother, who was of Russian Jewish descent, to Ashland, Oregon. LaDuke visited #WhiteEarth frequently and, at her mother’s encouragement, spent summers living in Native communities in order to strengthen her connection with her heritage.

"LaDuke attended Harvard University and graduated in 1982 with a degree in rural economic development. While at Harvard, LaDuke’s interest in Native issues grew. She spent a summer working on a campaign to stop uranium mining on Navajo land in Nevada, and testified before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland about the exploitation of Indian lands.

"After Harvard, LaDuke took a position as principal of the reservation high school at the White Earth Ojibwe reservation in Minnesota. She soon became involved in a lawsuit filed by the Anishinaabeg people to recover lands promised to them by an 1867 federal treaty. At the time of the treaty, the White Earth Reservation included 837,000 acres, but government policies allowed lumber companies and other non-Native groups to take over more than 90 percent of the land by 1934. After four years of litigation, however, the lawsuit was dismissed.

"The lawsuit’s failure motivated LaDuke’s ensuing efforts to protect Native lands. In 1985, she helped establish and co-chaired the #IndigenousWomensNetwork (#IWN), a coalition of 400 Native women activists and groups dedicated to bolstering the visibility of Native women and empowering them to take active roles in tribal politics and culture. The coalition strives both to preserve Indigenous religious and cultural practices and to recover Indigenous lands and conserve their natural resources."

Read more:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/winona-laduke

#GreenParty #LandBack #HonorTheEarth

#BigDadTheChairman #BDTC #BigDad #Dad #Big #Chairman #The #Anishinaabe #NativeAmericanRap #FirstNationsMusic #HipHopWithAPurpose #RapWithAPurpose #MusicForChange #JusticeThroughMusic #RapForRights #MusicIsPower #HipHopForSocialJustice #LandBack #IndigenousRights #LandBackMovement #NativeAmericanMusic #HipHopForIndigenousRights #RapForReconciliation #EmpowerThroughMusic #BeTheChange #RiseUp #MakeYourVoiceHeard #InspirationInRhymes #MusicForTheSoul #InspiringMusic #DiscoverNewMusic #NewArtistAlert

Blood Memories: #Indigenous Women on the Frontlines Inspire with Words and Action

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, April 17, 2024

NEW YORK -- "Indigenous women around the world are battling #FossillFuels, #mining, #exploitation and #oppression. The abuse of #MotherEarth is directly connected to the violence against Indigenous women.

"Women's Earth and #ClimateAction Network International hosted Indigenous women on panels during the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Wednesday.

"Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN executive director, opened the session calling for a #ceasefire in #Gaza, an end to the oppression, and return of the hostages. 'The killing must be stopped now,' she said.

"Indigenous women speak on the struggles, from the battle to halt the #MountainValleyPipeline and protect their burial places, to #Anishinaabe protecting the water and animals around the #GreatLakes and the battles against mining in the #Amazon, #Ecuador, #Colombia, #Brazil and #Peru."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04/indigenous-women-upholding-indigenous.html

#IndigenousNews #WaterIsLife #UN #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #NoMiningOnSacredLand #ReaderSupportedNews #MMIW #DefendMotherEarth #NoDAPL #NoMVPL

My profile photo was taken by my friend Bangishimo, who currently has a show at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery called “The Medicines We Carry.” Here’s one of their photos, of my friend Brittney, who is another excellent artist (primarily beadwork, quillwork, and leatherwork). Bangishimo is Anishinaabe and Brittney is Mi’kmaw. #IndigenousCreatives #Photography #IndigenousArt @waterlooregion @WaterlooEvents #KWAwesome #Anishinaabe #Mikmaw

' “Learning language is really scary, right? It’s frightening! People will tell stories like ‘I’m learning to speak, people are laughing at me’ which makes them not want to do it.

“But here we have an offering where you can listen and get some basics in the privacy of your home.” '

#IndigenousLanguages #learning #Canada #Haudenosaunee #Cree #Athabaskan #Anishinaabe #Inuktitut #NativeAmerican

https://globalnews.ca/news/10273315/indigenous-language-radio-series/

Judge dismisses #pipeline #protest charges against 3 #Native women

Kirsti Marohn
Brainerd, #Minnesota
September 18, 2023 3:45 PM

"Opponents of the #Line3 oil pipeline are celebrating an Aitkin County judge’s decision to dismiss charges against three Native women related to a 2021 protest.

"Activists #WinonaLaDuke, #TaniaAubid and #DawnGoodwin helped lead rallies as #Enbridge began work on a new #OilPipeline across northern Minnesota more than two years ago.

"The charges against them stemmed from a rally on Jan. 9, 2021, when a large group gathered at a pipeline construction site near the #MississippiRiver in Aitkin County. 

"The opponents, who called themselves #WaterProtectors carried signs and walked down a county road. Some Native women danced in jingle dresses, a healing tradition.

"Some group members later moved to another Aitkin County location, where they walked along U.S. Highway 169 and refused to leave a Line 3 construction site.

"LaDuke, Goodwin and Aubid were not arrested on Jan. 9. Authorities charged them weeks later by summons after identifying them in social media posts. They faced gross misdemeanor charges of trespassing and harassment, as well as misdemeanor unlawful assembly and public nuisance.

"A jury trial was scheduled to begin this week. But in a forceful opinion filed Sept. 14, District Court Judge Leslie Metzen dismissed all the charges.

"Metzen’s order noted the government’s historical mistreatment of #Indigenous people.

"'In the last 20 years I have come to a broader understanding of what we, the now dominant culture, did to try to eradicate our indigenous neighbors,' she wrote. 'We moved them by force and power and violence off the land where they lived for thousands of years. To make peace, we signed treaties with them that promised many things they never received.'

"Metzen wrote that she finds it 'within the furtherance of justice' to protect the defendants who were peacefully protesting to protect the land addressed in those treaties.

"She wrote that as respected members of #Anishinaabe tribes, LaDuke, Aubid and Goodwin were exercising their #FreeSpeech rights and #spiritual beliefs, including 'their heartfelt belief that the waters of Minnesota need to be protected from damage that could result from the #pipeline.'

'To criminalize their behavior would be the crime,' she added."

Read more:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/09/18/judge-dismisses-pipeline-protest-charges-against-3-native-women

#IndigenousNews #LaDuke #StopEnbridge #NoLine3 #Protestors #ClimateActivists #Fascism #WaterIsLife #RespectTheTreaties