"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist. and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist."
—Winona Laduke, #Ojibwe economist & environmentalist
took your meme to add it #AltText
(am i doing this right?!?!)
This extensive article from #Wisconsin shows examples of how improvements in land use can be environmental issues but also legal issues.
When #indigenous people try to use land with long-term goals, barriers arise from states and federal government ignoring treaty rights which protect the environment. Good News: Interactions between gov't and tribes are improving slowly.
"More than 250 years ago, the #Ojibwe people, one of the largest Indigenous populations in North America, received a prophecy to migrate westward until they reached the land where food grows on water.
When the #MilleLacsBand of Ojibwe encountered wild rice in north-central Minnesota, they knew they found their new home. Rice harvesting has been a cornerstone of Ojibwe culture ever since.
"Today, mining exploration company #TalonMetals, also has its sights set on Minnesota. Some of the world’s richest high-grade #nickel and #copper deposits are thousands of feet below the state colloquially known as 'the land of 10,000 lakes.'
"Talon seeks to construct a mine in the rural town of Tamarack, which it says will be integral to building the nation’s domestic supply of materials necessary for a clean energy transition.
"Nickel and copper are key components of rechargeable #lithium ion (#LION) batteries that are widely used for low-emission technologies like electric vehicles (EVs). The company already has an agreement to supply #Tesla with nickel from its proposed mine, potentially bringing hundreds of unionized mining jobs to this rural area.
"The federal government has also recognized nickel and copper as 'essential to national defense,' adding them to the U.S. critical minerals list in 2022 and 2023, respectively. And, this September, the Department of Defense awarded Talon a $20.1 million matching grant to continue searching for deposits throughout the #LakeSuperior region.
"As the U.S. strives to be a leader in clean energy transition, the #TamarackProject encapsulates both the promise and challenges that lie ahead.
"The Dangers of Sulfide Mining
"Kelly Applegate, the commissioner of natural resources for the Mille Lacs Band, was shocked when he first saw deep earth imaging of nickel-copper deposits beneath his tribal land in the late 1990s.
A study from the U.S. Geological Survey suggested that the Lake Superior region could have deposits as lucrative as high-yield mines in Canada and Russia.
'Oh my gosh, look at these mineral deposits that may one day be sought out,' he recalls thinking to himself.
"Two decades later, Talon Metals, a mining company founded by former Canadian venture #capitalists and based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), applied for a permit with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to create the Tamarack Project just over a mile away from the closest Mille Lacs Band community. "
Voici l’une de ces grandes photographies, immense:
Bernard Nelson de la nation Ojibwé / Cri.
Les couleurs de sa regalia « représentent le feu qui brûle en chacun de nous ». Il appartient au clan du loup.
Toute de bleu vêtue, Mariette Sutherland danse jusqu'à l'envol!
Et tous les matins, je la vois au-dessus de ma tête quand je passe dans le corridor pour aller enseigner la poésie.
C'est très inspirant!
Until the middle of last year, I was taking Inuktitut and Anishinaabemowin lessons. I no longer have access to these classes and don’t have anyone to practice with, so my words are going away. I think Canada should put at least as much energy and money into restoring these languages as it did in trying to wipe them out. That would be a basic act of reconciliation. #Indigedon#Inuktitut#Anishinaabemowin#Ojibwe#Reconciliation#Canada
"Christians have this focus on the afterlife and getting there, and they're not thinking about the impacts on the world around them which disconnects them from land and from the trees and from the water. It means it doesn't matter how we treat those things because they're just there for us to use and we will use something else when that's used up.
And then this rapture theology that I grew up with, that Christians are all going to be raptured out of here, it's their get out of jail free card in the end times. That's even more disconnection from this world. Why should we care if it's just all gonna get flattened anyway?
Whereas the Anishinaabe and Ojibwe belief system is you have to care. Yes, we're passing through this world, there is an afterlife, but this world matters.
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Nanabozho (in syllabics: ᓇᓇᐳᔓ, [nɐˌnɐbʊˈʒʊ]), also known as Nanabush, is a spirit in Anishinaabe aadizookaan (traditional storytelling), particularly among the Ojibwe. Nanabozho figures prominently in their storytelling, including the story of the world's creation. Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and...
"A court granted the Beltrami County Historical Society Museum permission to return sacred Indigenous artifacts to Indigenous communities where they originated."
There is a lot of foot-dragging by museums with regards to repatriating artifacts. I'm glad the Beltrami County HS chose to do so, even going to court to receive permission to bypass a restriction placed on the collection by a will.
I found Miranda's story inspiring. I hope she is elected because I believe she will be a good advocate for housing and mental health care on Duluth's city council.
Nanabozho - the genderfluid shapeshifting Ojibwe trickster god who slapped Paul Bunyan silly with a walleye bass. (en.wikipedia.org)
Nanabozho (in syllabics: ᓇᓇᐳᔓ, [nɐˌnɐbʊˈʒʊ]), also known as Nanabush, is a spirit in Anishinaabe aadizookaan (traditional storytelling), particularly among the Ojibwe. Nanabozho figures prominently in their storytelling, including the story of the world's creation. Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and...