#Anishinaabe woodland artist Mishiikenh Kwe was kind enough to let TurtleIsland.social use their amazing art. I am so grateful!

#TurtleIsland #TurtleIslandSocial #TurtleIslandArt
#NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon

Screenshot of TurtleIsland.social about page with Saabe Dream by Mishiikenh Kwe - Used with permission ©Mishiikenh Kwe

Enbridge Ordered to Shutdown Line 5 and Pay Bad River Band $5.1M https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/enbridge-ordered-to-shutdown-line-5-and-pay-bad-river-band-5-1m/ #Direct_Action #Eco #Activists #anishinaabe #Arkansas_River #Ashland #Bad_River_Band #Bay_Mills #BIA #canada #Chief_Judge_William_M_Conley_of_the_US_District_Court_for_Wisconsin #District #Enbridge #Fish_Creek #Flotilla_action #Great_Lakes #judge #Lake_Superior #lakehead_system #lawsuit #line_3 #Line_5 #Liquids #Long_Bridge #Mackinac_St

#NativeAmerican #WaterProtectors Assaulted During #Enbridge Lecture at Northern Michigan College

By Sierra Clark, Contributing Writer, June 29, 2023

"A public lecture featuring transnational pipeline and energy company Enbridge last week escalated to the assault of an #Anishinaabe water protector and allies protesting the controversial #Line5 project.

"The event, hosted by North Central Michigan College (NCMC) in Petoskey on June 22, featured an Enbridge representative speaking about the Great Lakes Tunnel Project that would house a section of Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac.

"During the lecture, the environmental protestors entered the NCMC Library Center and were confronted physically by several people attending the luncheon event."

#NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #WaterIsLife #NoKXL #NoLine5
Read more:
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/native-american-water-protectors-assaulted-during-enbridge-lecture-at-northern-michigan-college

Enfin je dirais. Kitcisakik va peut être progresser vers quelque chose.

#Anishinaabe #Kitcisakik #AbitibiTémiscamingue #PremièresNations

https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/791813/une-entente-cadre-est-signee-entre-kitcisakik-et-ottawa

Roxanne Korpan and Darin Wybenga, "Peter Jones / Kahkewaquonaby: Visions of Equality and Mississauga Self-Determination in the 19th century"

Online conference organized by the E.J. Pratt Library, University of Toronto. Thursday April 27, 1-2:15pm EDT. Registration: https://libcal.library.utoronto.ca/calendar/libraryworkshops/Vision

#Mississaugas #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe #indigenous #history #CdnHist #colonialism #histodons @histodons

More coverage of Native Sovereignity Day at the Minnesota State Capitol.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-legislature-hosts-sovereignty-day-on-monday-hears-from-tribal-nations/

Worth noting is that only the 11 federally recognized tribes were represented. I saw no mention of the Mendota Mdewakanton Sioux who reside a mile or two from where I live. They have been seeking federal recognition for many years.

#NativeAmerican #Minnesota #Dakota #Anishinaabe #Chippewa #Sioux #Mendota #Mdewakanton

Instead of a "day", how about a Native Sovereignty year? Repeated every year?

#NativeAmerican #Minnesota #Dakota #Anishinaabe #Chippewa #Sioux #SahanJournal

"Over the last six years, the county has spent more than $8 million in attorney’s fees on the case. With an appeal, those costs will grow."

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/ojibwe-mille-lacs-county-appeal-minnesota/

Stupid waste of money by Mille Lacs county. The State of Minnesota should NOT cover those fees.

#NativeAmerican #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Chippewa #Minnesota #TreatyRights

“We see you everyday. But do you see us?” said Kevin Dupuis, chair of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. “We’re not invisible. We know we’re not invisible. But sometimes the system looks at us or puts it in a perspective that we are invisible.”

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/sovereignty-day-american-indian-tribes-state-capitol-minnesota-legislature/

#NativeAmerican #Minnesota #Dakota #Anishinaabe #Chippewa #Sioux #SahanJournal

I am crushed by this observation.The hunter-gatherers of Europe lost every thing to agriculurists. I wonder how much racism or the equivalent occurred for the European hunter-gather tribes.

I believe we could have done much better.

#NativeAmerican #Lakota #Dakota #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Minnesota

"[M]any see toxic pollution in the Great Lakes as a continued encroachment on how Ojibwe communities exercise those rights."

https://www.minnpost.com/other-nonprofit-media/2023/03/great-lakes-pollution-threatens-ojibwe-treaty-rights-to-fish/

I hope Native Americans continue to assert their treaty rights so as to protect the environment against degradation.What does it mean to have the right to fish if there are no fish to fish?

#NativeAmerican #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe #Minnesota #TreatyRights #MinnPost

I need a word that speaks to the preservation, restoration, revitalization, and resurgance of something. I'm my specific case, in regards to Native American tribes in Minnesota teaching and learning their nearly lost languages.

Both the Dakota and Anishinaabe in Minnesota are undertaking efforts to preserve and restore their languages.

#NativeAmerican #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe #Dakota #Minnesota #language

"In the late 1800s, the U.S. government created a policy that banned speaking or teaching in any language other than English in schools. This was standard practice in Native American boarding schools. For generations, Native children were taken from their families, banned from speaking their native language or engaging in traditional religious practices, and often abused if they didn’t comply."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/02/27/few-speak-ojibwe-as-a-first-language-this-nest-is-teaching-kids-to-in-cloquet

#NativeAmerican #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe #Minnesota

"Some non-Indigenous people may recognize snow snake from their days as a Boy Scout."

This was the first I heard of snow snakes. I found the article frustrating because it wasn't until the 7th paragraph where it became apparent to me it is a game and not until the 20th or so paragraph where I learned it involves sliding a wooden snow snake through a hoop.

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/indigenous-elders-teach-snow-snake-indigenous-winter-games-bemidji/

#Anishinaabe #Chippewa #Ojibwe #NativeAmerican #Minnesota #SahanJournal

I'm reading "A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return" by Sandy White Hawk. I'm only part way through. What was done to Native American's was wrong.

#NativeAmerican #Minnesota #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Chippewa

More about me: I also am #autistic living with #ADHD and anxiety, am #trans / #twospirit af, #anishinaabe, and occasionally make silly jokes and an overall goofball when I need to brighten someone's day. 💜

"The court decision 'is a major victory for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of respecting the sovereignty and treaty rights of Indigenous nations,' said Band President Faron Jackson Sr."

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/minnesota-court-of-appeals-backs-leech-lake-objiwe-dispute-over-proposed-mill/

I want the Native American tribes in Minnesota and surrounding states to continue asserting their rights under treaty and as soveriegn nations.

#Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Chippewa #Minnesota #NativeAmerican #SahanJournal

#Anishinaabe leader calls #Ontario government’s argument ‘absurd’ and ‘ridiculous’ https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ontario-robinson-treaty-annuity-trial-1.6733685

“It’s important to share those stories,” Friedli says. “Especially during storytelling season. It’s winter. The snow is on the ground. This is the traditional season for telling those stories.”

https://sahanjournal.com/news-partners/team-kwe-all-women-indigenous-minnesota-state-snow-sculpting-competition/

I need to break out of my pandemic hibernation. Why didn't I attend the Minnesota State Snow Sculpting Competition?

#NativeAmerican #Minnesota #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe #Chippewa #SahanJournal

I finished reading "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich, a fiction novel consisting of intertwined story lines involving the Chippewa inhabitants of Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. One of the story lines is based upon events in the author's grandfather's life.

It was well written and kept my interest. All of the main characters and concerns and thoughts felt real to me.

#Ojibwe #Chippewa #Anishinaabe #NativeAmerican #Minnesota #NorthDakota #bookstodon