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JULY 26


GRAND CANYON

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The confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in the Grand Canyon
has been a place of deep cultural significance since time immemorial for 11
associated tribes (Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Kaibab Band of Paiute, Las Vegas
Band of Paiute, Moapa Band of Paiute, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, San Juan
Southern Paiute Tribe, The Pueblo of Zuni, Yavapai-Apache Nation, and Navajo
Nation). Developers first began targeting the confluence in 2009 with plans to
build a mega-resort called Grand Canyon Escalade that would have brought up to
10,000 visitors a day to this remote part of the canyon. The Save the Confluence
coalition of local Navajo families stopped the Escalade development in 2017. On
the heels of that victory, however, new developers submitted applications to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to build three hydroelectric dams on
Navajo land just up the Little Colorado River Gorge from the confluence. 

The proposed pump hydroelectric dam projects are a direct affront to tribal
sovereignty. They threaten many cultural and historical sites of the tribes
affiliated with the Grand Canyon, including the Hopi place of emergence. No
homeowners, grazing permittees, communities, the Navajo tribe or neighboring
tribes were consulted on the preliminary dam permits. The dams would also
severely threaten the ecological and environmental well-being of the Colorado
River and its tributaries, including critical habitat for the endangered
humpback chub that spawns in the Little Colorado River’s warm, turquoise-blue
waters. One of the dams, the Big Canyon Dam, would pump precious groundwater in
a region currently facing severe drought. In other words, the Little Colorado
River Gorge is the wrong place for dams.

The Hualapai Tribe, Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, and many tribal community members
objected to the developer’s efforts to bypass tribal sovereignty and obtain
federal approval for a controversial development on the Navajo Nation. In a
motion to intervene, the Navajo Nation reminded FERC that the developer had not
sought or obtained the consent of the Navajo Nation, local chapters, or
community members.

The three dam proposals should be cancelled, either by FERC or by the developer.
However, without permanent safeguards for the lower Little Colorado River that
honor tribal sovereignty and respect cultural sites, what is to stop a future
proposal from another outside developer? 

The Save the Confluence coalition is seeking permanent safeguards for the lower
Little Colorado River that honor tribal sovereignty, respect cultural sites, and
support local sustainable economic development from the communities. Protection
could come in the form of federal or Navajo Nation legislation. However, it is
critical that FERC’s processes are changed to incorporate free, prior, and
informed consent in the initial stages of a project development.


RESOURCES

https://savetheconfluence.com/ 

https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/little-colorado-river-dam-proposals

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JUNE 30


MOTHER KUSKOKWIN RIVER

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ALASKA

In remote Southwest Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim region, one of the largest and most
vibrant river deltas on the globe, a proposal to build one of the world’s most
massive gold mines churns forward. According to reports from state and federal
regulators, its construction and operation could negatively impact human health
and will destroy wild salmon habitat. This mine, known as the Donlin Project,
has not received the same intense scrutiny via the press, conservation groups
and government regulators as the infamous proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay.
Despite that, Donlin poses similar dangers to health and environment.

The mine poses major environmental risks, including the destruction of salmon
spawning habitats and releases of mercury into the air and water far in excess
of human health standards.  For example, according to the Environmental Impact
Statement issued by the Army Corps, it is anticipated that if the mine is
developed there will be a 40% increase in mercury deposition to surface waters
near the mine. Additionally, the mine would decimate the Chinook, Coho, Sockeye
and Chum salmon and would reduce or eliminate flow of water from headwaters to
the mouth of these salmon streams.

Yukon-Kuskokwim residents and communities want to protect their sacred “Mother
Kuskokwim” river from a massive increase in barge traffic carrying cyanide and
other chemicals; a major gas pipeline with road access; and other major
destruction. Donlin Gold would be the largest open pit mine in Alaska and would
impact the predominantly Indigenous Yupik, Cup’ik, and Athabascan communities
who depend completely on traditional and customary uses of the lands, waters and
fish and wildlife resources.  

By the fall of 2019, 13 Tribal Governments, the Yukon Kuskokwim Health
Corporation, the Regional tribal organization called Alaska Village Council
Presidents and the National Congress of American Indians had passed resolutions
of opposition to the project.  Meanwhile, Calista, the regional Native for
profit corporation, and Donlin’s  parent companies, Barrick and Nova Gold, have
turned a deaf ear to the requests of the Tribes to slow down the permitting
process and consider the human and environmental justice aspects of forging
ahead against such widespread, local, community-based opposition.

Source: https://nodonlingold.org/about/


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Salmon People: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience in Alaska June 30, 2021


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MAUNA KEA

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“Mauna Kea, a volcano on the island of Hawai‘i, is sacred to Native Hawaiians as
an elder ancestor and the physical embodiment—or kinolau—of deities revered in
Hawaiian culture and religion. Thirteen telescopes and support facilities crowd
the sacred landscape of Mauna Kea and a consortium of institutions led by the
University of Hawai‘i Institute for Astronomy is now proposing construction of a
massive new Thirty Meter Telescope. An important ceremonial site, Lake Waiau,
has been drying up in recent years, causing growing concern on the Big Island.
Kealoha Pisciotta, president of the local organization Mauna Kea Anaina Hou,
testified: ‘If we say yes to more development, we are saying yes to the
desecration of our temple and our ancestors, yes to the destruction of our
waters, and yes to the possible extinction of life itself.’”

Source: https://sacredland.org/mauna-kea-united-states/ 

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JULY 8


BADGER-TWO MEDICINE

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MT

The Badger-Two Medicine region is an almost entirely unroaded expanse of
mountains, ridges, river valleys and wetlands along Montana’s Rocky Mountain
Front. It is located at the intersection of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation,
Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, and is part of
the headwaters of the Missouri River.

The Badger-Two Medicine is sacred to the Blackfeet people. It is the home of
their creation story, and has continued to be a place of refuge and healing for
10,000 years. It provides strength, subsistence, and cultural identity to the
Blackfeet people, which is why they have vowed to protect it.

Badger Two Medicine is the last cultural refuge of the Blackfeet Nation, home to
many of their cultural origin stories, a stronghold for our ceremonies and
traditions. It is where the Blackfeet practiced their culture in safety after
the federal government outlawed their ceremony. It is where they still seek
healing and solace, guidance and renewal.

Others besides Blackfeet also seek the power of the Badger-Two Medicine. Many
travel to this beautiful area to hunt and fish, to hike and camp, to graze
cattle and to pack horses. Others, like the grizzly bear and wolverine, the elk
and mule deer, seek refuge in these mountains by settling in seasonally before
following ancient migrations out onto the prairie or high into Glacier National
Park. The Blackfeet Nation wants all these people – two-legged and four-legged,
finned, furred and feathered – to be able to access the Badger-Two Medicine
forever, and their vision for permanent protection does exactly that.

The permanent protection of Badger Two Medicine would have many benefits:
including the protection of cultural and traditional uses of the area; a
guarantee of Blackfeet’s existing treaty rights and the ability to contribute to
future management decisions. Further, it would provide job opportunities for
Blackfeet people to conduct trail maintenance and other contracted forest work.
It would also add protections for headwater streams that are an important source
of clean water for agricultural operations and communities both on and off the
reservation.

Source: https://blackfeetnation.com/badger-two-medicine/ 
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2020/06/27/badger-two-medicine-needs-permanent-protection/

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Our Last Refuge: The Fight to Protect Badger-Two Medicine July 8, 2021

JULY 13


THACKER PASS

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NV

Thacker Pass is in Humboldt County, Nevada. It was formed 16 mil + years ago, is
traditional and unceded territory of the Paiute and Shoshone people. Now it is
also the proposed site for a massive lithium mine that would destroy the area
and valuable habitat for the creatures who live there.

The Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu (the People of Red Mountain) and native and
non-native allies, oppose Lithium Nevada Corp’s proposed Thacker Pass open pit
lithium mine. This mine will harm the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe and
their traditional land, including significant cultural sites, water, air, and
wildlife including greater sage grouse, Lahontan cutthroat trout, pronghorn
antelope, and sacred golden eagles. 

Thacker Pass is sacred to the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe. Thacker Pass
is a spiritually powerful place blessed by the presence of ancestors, other
spirits, and golden eagles – who are considered to be directly connected to the
Creator. Thacker Pass is essential to the survival of Paiute-Shoshone
traditions, which are tied to the land. Thacker Pass is home to many of
traditional foods, hunting, and traditional medicines. When the land is
destroyed, the traditions are destroyed. 

The traditional Paiute name of Thacker Pass is Pee-hee-mm-huh meaning “rotten
moon.” The name comes from when many Paiute-Shoshone were massacred at Thacker
Pass and their relatives found their bodies unburied, rotting, and with their
entrails spread across the sage brush in a part of the Pass shaped like a moon.
To build a lithium mine over this massacre site in Peehee mu’huh would be like
building a lithium mine over Pearl Harbor or Arlington National Cemetery. 

Thacker Pass is also historically significant to the Fort McDermitt
Paiute-Shoshone Tribe. When American soldiers were rounding up native people to
force them on to reservations, many Paiute-Shoshone people hid in Thacker Pass.
The Fort McDermitt tribe descends from essentially two families who, hiding in
Thacker Pass, managed to avoid being sent to reservations farther away from
their ancestral lands. It could be said, then, that the Fort McDermitt tribe
might not be here if it wasn’t for the shelter provided by Thacker Pass.

Lithium Nevada Corp. proposes to build an open pit lithium mine that begins with
a project area of 17,933 acres. When the Mine is fully-operational, it would use
5,200 acre-feet per year (equivalent to an average pumping rate of 3,224 gallons
per minute) in one of the driest regions in the nation; and it is estimated that
the mine will produce 152,703 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions every
year. Fighting climate change, however, cannot be used as yet another excuse to
destroy native land. We cannot protect the environment by destroying it. In
addition, there is the likelihood that “man camps” will form to supply labor
force for the mine, and that the mine will strain community infrastructure, such
as law enforcement and human services. This will lead to an increase in hard
drugs, violence, rape, sexual assault, and human trafficking. The connection
between man camps and missing and murdered indigenous women is well-established.


RESOURCES

https://www.protectthackerpass.org/

https://www.change.org/p/protect-thacker-pass-peehee-mu-huh

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Protect Thacker Pass July 13, 2021

JUNE 30


BRISTOL BAY

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ALASKA

Yup’ik, Dena’ina and Alutiiq people have lived in Bristol Bay for thousands of
years, continuing our sacred ways of life on our ancestral lands and waters. Our
cultures are intrinsically tied to the health and wellbeing of our watershed and
all the life it sustains. Bristol Bay is a large geographical area, around the
size of Ohio, with 31 federally-recognized Tribes calling the vast region from
Lake Iliamna to the Alaska Peninsula home. The region has more than 30
communities that collectively are home to around 7,000 year-round residents. The
region’s population about doubles seasonally due to the summer recreational,
sport, and commercial fisheries.

Bristol Bay is home to one of the world’s last great wild salmon ecosystems, the
largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world, and some of the world’s last,
intact, sustainable salmon-based cultures. Bristol Bay has been fighting the
proposed Pebble Mine for nearly two decades. The mine puts at risk a way of life
that has sustained the Indigenous people of the region since time immemorial; a
commercial fishery that has been going strong for more than 130 years; and
habitat that gives birth to the world’s largest wild salmon run.

Source: https://www.utbb.org/


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https://www.utbb.org/videos

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Salmon People: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience in Alaska June 30, 2021

JUNE 30


TONGASS FOREST

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ALASKA

“The Tongass Rainforest is the traditional homelands of the Tlingit, Haida and
Tsimshian Peoples. It is the largest national forest in the U.S., and has been
called ‘America’s climate forest’ due to its unsurpassed ability to sequester
carbon and mitigate climate impacts. For decades however, industrial scale
logging has been destroying this precious ecosystem, and disrupting the
traditional lifeways, medicine, and food systems of the regions Indigenous
communities. 

Tongass Indigenous Representatives have been developing alternatives to local
and national governance structures that have allowed the massive logging and
destruction of their forests. Their proposal builds on these alternatives, and
focuses on bringing forward matriarchal values that uplift local food
sovereignty, traditional tribal governance structures and protect local forests
and water ways.”

Source: WECAN International


RESOURCES

http://www.kake-nsn.gov/

https://www.kasaan.org/

https://www.wecaninternational.org/

Photo credit to Howie Garber

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Salmon People: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience in Alaska June 30, 2021

JULY 7


ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

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ALASKA

July 7 online

“The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is an American treasure and is
internationally known for its ecological importance and beauty. Renowned for its
wildlife, forty-five species of land and marine mammals live in the Arctic
Refuge, including polar bears, wolf, moose, mountain sheep and bowhead whales.
The Gwich’in Steering Committee was formed in 1988 in response to proposals to
drill for oil in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins, the coastal plain of the 
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Our elders recognized that oil development in caribou calving grounds was a
threat to the very heart of our people. They called upon the chiefs of all
Gwich’in villages from Canada to Alaska to come together for a traditional
gathering – the first in more than a century. At the gathering in Arctic Village
we addressed the issue with a talking stick in accordance with our traditional
way, and decided unanimously that we would speak with one voice against oil and
gas development in the birthing and nursing grounds of the Porcupine Caribou
Herd. Our unified voice is expressed in a formal resolution, Gwich’in Niintsyaa.

Vast and remote, the 19.5-million-acre Refuge covers an area the size of South
Carolina. While 8.9 million acres are protected as wilderness, the
1.5-million-acre coastal plain, the biological heart of the Refuge, remains
vulnerable to industrial development.

Big oil companies and some members of the U.S. Congress want to drill in the
coastal plain which would put the future of the Porcupine Caribou Herd at risk.
The herd’s migrations cover a vast area – caribou can travel up to 3,000 miles
over the course of a year – yet they rely almost exclusively on the thin band of
land along the coast of the Refuge to birth and nurse their young every year.”

Source: https://ourarcticrefuge.org/about-the-refuge/

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JULY 14


SALISH SEA

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WA

Killer whales, or orcas, are a “miner’s canary” for the ocean. Their health
indicates the health of the seas, the salmon stocks, the ancestral waters and
way of life of coastal Indigenous communities, and the well-being of future
generations.

The orca is among the most contaminated and critically endangered marine mammals
in the world. From the Lummi Nation to the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Indigenous
communities in the Pacific Northwest are sounding the alarm, exposing the many
threats orcas face, from outdated dams and depleted salmon stocks they depend on
for food, to toxic pollution, sound pollution, and the proposed Trans Mountain
Pipeline that would bring 800 new oil tankers annually to the Salish Sea.

The killer whale is one of the Lummi’s most revered relations. For the Lummi and
many other Coast Salish tribes, killer whales are kin. Qw’e lh’ol mechen, the
Lummi word for killer whale, translates to “our people who live under the sea”

.Sources: SacredSea.org and thenaturalhistorymuseum.org


RESOURCES

SacredSea.org

https://se-si-le.org/



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Salish Sea July 13, 2021

JULY 15


SNAKE RIVER

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SNAKE RIVER

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to restore wild salmon in the Pacific
Northwest’s Columbia and Snake Rivers and their tributaries, once the greatest
salmon rivers in the world. We can do this by removing four outdated and
expensive dams on the lower Snake River.

For too long these 4 dams have impeded the rights of Nez Perce and other
Northwest First Peoples to exercise Traditional Fishing Treaty Rights. Now the
salmon are dying by the thousands. The federal government promised the Nez Perce
People the right to hunt and fish in their usual and accustomed places as part
of the 1855 Treaty. The promise was broken. It’s time to right this wrong.

Wild salmon, steelhead and pacific lamprey have been used by the Nez Perce
People for subsistence, trade and ceremonial purposes for centuries. If we free
the Snake River, we can save the salmon, honor Treaty Rights and bring about the
biggest river restoration in history.

“For the past five decades the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have been working to
restore the Snake River and their salmon runs. With the dams in place, the
Tribes have experienced impacts to their culture, spirituality, and way of
life. 

“We need to change the system in order for salmon and our people (Newe) to
survive. Removing the Lower Four Snake River dams will help restore our
fisheries, protect our culture and create a better future for our Tribal
membership.”

Sources: www.nimiipuuprotecting.org/act-now and
www.sbtribes.com/saveidahosalmon/ 


RESOURCES:

http://www.sbtribes.com/saveidahosalmon/

https://www.nimiipuuprotecting.org/act-now

Watch a short video about the Snake River ceremony here and documentation of the
full event here.

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Snake River Blessing Ceremony July 15, 2021

JULY 17


BEARS EARS

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UTAH

Bears Ears is an incomparable and priceless place, a place with irreplaceable
cultural resources. It is a place many Native peoples in the Four Corners area
continue to define as home, soul, and the setting for the cultivation of
cultures. Unfortunately, this landscape and its ancient shrines, petroglyphs,
plants, animals, minerals, and cultural artifacts have become a center of
desecration, looting, and disrespect. The proposed Bears Ears national monument
will provide much needed protection for this nation’s most rich cultural
landscape so that we can care for it in perpetuity.

This is a land with natural as well as cultural resources. We believe that if we
treat the land with respect, care for it, and act as good stewards, its
resources can enrich and enhance our lives. But we must not just take, we must
act with care, and also give back. For thousands of years of constant human
occupation, the Bears Ears was unscarred by bulldozers, dynamite, and chainsaws.
The ancestral homes and sacred places were treated with respect, not looted for
artifacts. No pipelines drained its nourishing water, no drilling rigs pierced
its quiet soils to suck hydrocarbons from the dark underworld. Only in the past
few generations have these special lands been marred; the damage done is
substantial, but most of it is reversible. Tears of grief over industrial
indifference and callous looting are not enough. Protections and enforcement are
needed. There is still time to keep the cultural heritage of this exceptional
place intact, but without swift action, we fear that the archaeological and
cultural riches of the Bears Ears will suffer shameful, disgraceful, dissolution
and obliteration. 

Monument designation will be the first step in righting the wrongs of the past
and halting the continued destruction. Ecological resilience is strongest in
places that are the least disturbed and most biodiverse. Bears Ears is a
resilient landscape. Navajo people have a term for such places of ecological
rejuvenation: we call them Nahodishgish, or “places to be left alone.” These
intact landscapes are thought to be the healthiest of all lands, from which
plants and animals spread and repopulate surrounding lands. There are few places
left on earth that the hand of man has not scarred. Bears Ears is one such
place, where healing of the earth can begin. The scars and wounds of industrial
exploitation will be smoothed over. Native plants and animals will proliferate.

Archaeological sites damaged by looting and neglect cannot be healed. They will
never regenerate. But the damaged sites can be mitigated through stewardship,
through education, and through shared appreciation. In the case of archaeology,
prevention is the only medicine that will heal the People. Spiritual leaders
will bring healing to the mesas and canyons, and as children visit the homes and
special places of the ancient ones, the bonds to the past will be strengthened,
and a new future will come to these places of the past.

“Hoon’Naqvut, Shash Jáa, Kwiyagatu Nukavachi, Ansh An Lashokdiwe in the
respective Native Languages of the five tribes that make up the Bears Ears
Inter-Tribal Coalition, all translate to mean Bears Ears. 

Bears Ears National Monument was designated as a result of a historic request
from the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition (the Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation,
the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, the Ute Indian Tribe, and the Pueblo of Zuni) to
protect their ancestral lands. In 2017, the Trump Administration took illegal
action to downsize the monument from its designated 1.35 million acres to
201,876 acres— an 85% reduction. The action set in motion a historic movement
led by the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition to restore protections for the
living landscape rich with sacred and cultural heritage that spans millennia. 

While the totem, a gesture of goodwill from the Lummi Nation, is safeguarding in
its home, the future of Bears Ears hangs in the balance of the Biden
administration. On January 27th, the Biden administration signed an Executive
Order that required a review of Trump’s downsizing of Bears Ears and Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.. On the week of April 5th, Secretary of
Interior Deb Haaland visited Utah to meet with Tribal and Utah political
leaders, where she gathered information and perspectives on the monuments. Next,
Secretary Haaland will make a recommendation to President Biden, which will
determine the monument’s future and the historic efforts to choose to heal.” 

Source: https://bearsearscoalition.org/


RESOURCES

https://utahdinebikeyah.org

https://bearsearscoalition.org

http://womenofbearsears.org

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Bears Ears July 17, 2021

JULY 18


CHACO CANYON

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NEW MEXICO

A thousand years ago, Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico was the ceremonial
center of ancestral Puebloans, whose culture encompassed more than 75,000 square
miles of the Southwest. Today, Chaco Canyon is a National Historical Cultural
Park and World Heritage Site, considered one of the most important
archaeological sites in the Americas, and yet over 93% of the area is leased to
oil and gas activities. Indigenous people, primarily Navajo (Diné), sacred
cultural sites, precious water resources, and the area’s biodiversity are all
under a grave and growing threat from fracking.

Today, Navajo communities of Greater Chaco are living amid extensive oil and gas
development with no regard for public safety. Since 2013, the Bureau of Land
Management has approved hundreds of new fracking proposals, without adequate
Tribal consultation. On July 11, 2016, 36 fracking waste tanks exploded in a
fire that burned for five days and forced dozens of families to evacuate with no
emergency safeguards. The Bureau of Land Management has acknowledged it never
analyzed how this fracking boom will impact public health and the environment,
yet approves fracking activities with no plan in place to protect the region’s
air, water, Tribal cultural sites, and communities, and without adequate
consultation with the public in general and with Navajo Chapter Houses and
Navajo Allotment Land Owners in particular.

In the meantime, the Bureau of Land Management continues to approve more wells
and lease more land for fracking, failing to consider that the Greater Chaco
area holds spiritual and cultural significance to all Indigenous peoples who are
rooted in Chaco culture, not limited to the Navajo Nation, and that sacred sites
in the area are not limited to those within the boundaries of Chaco Culture
National Historical Park.

“The Greater Chaco region is home to Native American Tribes, including the Diné
(Navajo) and Pueblo Nations. Chaco Canyon and the surrounding landscape is
culturally significant to the Navajo, Hopi, Apache, Zuni, Ute, and Pueblo
peoples. While ancient sites, kivas, and great houses inside the park’s
boundaries are protected, the overwhelming majority of Greater Chaco lands
administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are leased for oil and gas
development — impacting the sacred landscape, air, people, and the living
culture of the region. The remaining area of Greater Chaco, including the area
within immediate vicinity of the park, is currently threatened by further oil
and gas extraction.

The Greater Chaco Coalition is demanding a new management plan for the area that
puts in place an immediate moratorium on all new fracking and leasing
activities, to ensure Tribal consultation at every stage of decision-making, and
to offer a full comprehensive health and social impact assessment of drilling
impacts on surrounding communities and economic development alternatives to lead
away from extractive economies.”

Sources: https://www.frackoffchaco.org/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rGPtalZYYmwlNq1AoZOjF763kCySDhUcmDzzyjp0-lM/edit


RESOURCES

Frack Off Greater Chaco  

Diné C.A.R.E

Pueblo Action Alliance 

https://www.puebloactionalliance.org/blog/chaco-op-ed-by-lauren-howland 

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Chaco Canyon July 18, 2021

JULY 21


BLACK HILLS

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SOUTH DAKOTA

NOTE: This is not a public event

The Black Hills stretch across western South Dakota, northeast Wyoming and
southeast Montana and constitute a sacred landscape for the Lakota, Northern
Cheyenne and Omaha. To the Lakota, they are the Paha Sapa, or “black hills.”
These sacred lands were the casualty of one of the most blatant land grabs in
U.S. history and continue to be the site of a legal and political confrontation.

“Mount Rushmore is on stolen Lakota land and its very existence is a symbol of
white supremacy” says Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective President and CEO. “In
opposing the ongoing desecration of our sacred land and asking for return of
Lakota lands where Mount Rushmore is situated, we’re not saying anything that
our parents, grandparents and great grandparents haven’t already said– The
Lakota have opposed Mount Rushmore since the very beginning.”

“Indigenous people have resisted colonization for the past 500 years,” says
Tilsen. “Colonization is the oldest form of white supremacy, and America is
being called out and called up to acknowledge that. Mount Rushmore is yet
another symbol of white supremacy and colonization, and until it is returned to
the Lakota, we will continue to oppose it and fight for justice.”

Source:
https://ndncollective.org/ndn-collective-calls-for-closure-of-mount-rushmore-and-for-the-black-hills-to-be-returned-to-the-lakota/

“The Black Hills have been sacred to the Lakota and other native people for
thousands of years, known as a place of extraordinary spiritual power. Within
the Norbeck Wildlife Preserve lies Harney Peak, described by Lakota spiritual
leader Black Elk as “the Center of the World.” Logging roads are now being built
in this landscape, destroying sacred places that cannot be restored. The logging
itself will have long-term impacts on old-growth trees, associated water systems
and wildlife.

Over the years, the Black Hills have experienced mining, logging, and
recreational uses, often in violation of Lakota beliefs. Mining for gold, coal
and uranium pollutes water. Cyanide heap-leach gold mines, such as Homestake and
Gilt Edge, use cyanide to extract gold from crushed ore. The cyanide mixes with
other chemicals, producing toxic chemicals which can leach into the groundwater.
This sort of mining leaves huge open pits which scar the landscape, and
frequently the companies are allowed to abandon the mines without cleaning up or
restoring the land to its original state.”

Source: https://sacredland.org/black-hills-united-states/ 

NOTE: This is not a public event


RESOURCES:

NDN Collective
https://landback.org/

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Black Hills July 21, 2021

JULY 22


MISSOURI RIVER

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SOUTH DAKOTA

Dakota/Lakota/Nakota communities are working to pass a resolution recognizing
the sovereignty and rights of the Mni Sosa (Missouri River.) The Missouri River
is currently managed for economic imperatives, rather than ecological or
culturally competent imperatives. The goals are: to restore the rights of the
spirit of their river through promulgation of resolutions for local Traditional
Societies, Oceti Sakowin Tribal Governments, and regional Tribal Alliances; to
continue and complement their current Biocultural Region work to re-indigenize
the landscape and hydroscape; and to protect their river from conflicts over
water that have been prophesized, and establish buffer zones that they create
with their Indigenous narrative in the Missouri River Watershed.

The Yankton Sioux are confronting threats to the Missouri River Cultural
Bioregion that include the building of the Keystone XL pipeline and “man-camps”
of pipeline workers, and the continuing pandemic in a state that refuses to
follow public health guidelines and openly promotes racism and violates the
principles of tribal sovereignty. Historically, federal environmental policy and
leadership have favored extractive industries.

Traditional leaders want to restore the Ihanktonwan inherent Indigenous rights
to be caretakers of the land and water of the region–a model for advancing
tribal sovereignty in environmental and cultural protection through braiding
thousands of years of knowledge and contemporary science to exercise the legal
and inherent right to govern in the interests of humanity.


RESOURCES

https://www.nativeland.org/mnf-brave-heart-society

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Missouri River July 22, 2021

JULY 24


STANDING ROCK

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NORTH DAKOTA

In the middle of miles and miles of brown flatlands on the Standing Rock Indian
Reservation near Cannonball, North Dakota, a sprawling camp of tepees, tents,
and RVs appeared in the Summer of 2016. Members of more than 300 Native Nations
and several thousand supporters arrived, joining in an unprecedented alliance
against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which was set to cut through
Sioux territory and across the Missouri River despite strong tribal opposition.
The DAPL risked jeopardizing the primary water source not only for the Standing
Rock Sioux Reservation, but also for 17 million people downstream.

Standing Rock captured headlines around the world, holding the attention of
millions. It also invoked the horrifying memory of Wounded Knee, where, more
than a century ago hundreds of Lakota people were massacred by the U.S. Cavalry
for protecting their treaty lands from the encroachment of gold prospectors in
the midst of the Black Hills gold rush. It was as if Standing Rock was leaping
from the history books. This time, it felt like maybe if we did something, the
outcome could be different.

Standing Rock provoked a collective desire to not only observe history but to
help create it. More than a million Facebook users virtually “checked in” to the
Standing Rock Indian Reservation page in solidarity with the water protectors on
the ground. Hundreds of Native Nations issued statements in support of the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Since then, dozens of inter-tribal treaty agreements
have been made to help specific communities block other fossil fuel
infrastructure projects that threaten treaty rights, sacred sites, water, land,
and public health.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s struggle to protect sacred waters, lands, and
treaty territories continues to this day. While the Biden administration issued
an executive order canceling the Keystone XL pipeline upon taking office, it has
not taken a similar stance on DAPL. The pipeline continues to flow while a
court-ordered environmental review moves forward. DAPL violates Indigenous
sovereignty and treaty rights and has failed to abide by the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which requires free and prior
informed consent.

By 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population may face water shortages. Oil
infrastructure can accelerate climate change, harming those who have contributed
little to this situation. In this context, the Indigenous belief that water is
sacred is also the most scientifically rational and environmentally responsible
one.

Mni wiconi, water is life. 






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Standing Rock July 24, 2021

JULY 25


WHITE EARTH

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MINNESOTA

This territory is the headwaters of the Red River and the Mississippi River; the
territory of the Great Lakes. For thousands of years, the ancestors of the
Anishinaabe people lived here well. The current concern is that the Canadian
corporation, Enbridge, is proposing a new route for their Line 3 replacement
across a pristine water-rich environment. The lakes, streams, wetlands, and the
Mississippi River would all be at risk. Line 3 is a clear danger to the climate,
water, and land in Minnesota, and would undermine the Indigenous treaty rights
of the Anishinaabe people. 

According to the Anishinaabe’s Seven Generations and Seventh Fire prophecies, we
are in the time when we have a choice between two paths. One path is well worn,
scorched and leads to our destruction. The other path is new, green and leads to
mino-bimaadiziwin (the good life). We must choose to walk the new path by saying
“no” to fossil fuel investments and “yes” to renewable energy investments. Honor
the Earth maintains that the path must be grounded in Indigenous Knowledge,
Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and a deep reverence for our Mother Earth. 

Honor the Earth and Water Protectors are working to stop the aquatic invasive
species; to keep the Boundary Waters free from pollutants; and to keep new
pipeline corridors out of lake country. 

Source: https://www.honorearth.org/welcome_water_protectors


RESOURCES

https://www.honorearth.org

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White Earth July 25, 2021

JULY 27


MACKINAW CITY

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MICHIGAN

The Straits of Mackinac connect Lakes Michigan and Huron, and are sacred waters
for the Bay Mills Indian Community and other tribal nations in the area. The Bay
Mills Indian Community has been fighting the existing Line 5 pipeline, as well
as a plan to build a new pipeline tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac.

The Gnoozhekaaning, Place of the Pike, or Bay Mills Indian Community is a
federally recognized Indian Tribe based in Mackinaw City, Michigan. The Bay
Mills Indian Community is the recognized successor to the Sault Ste. Marie area
bands who signed the Treaty of March 28, 1836 which reserved the perpetual right
to fish, hunt, and gather in the land and waters of the State of Michigan –
including the waters of Lake Superior, Huron, and Michigan and the Straits of
Mackinac. These treaty rights have been fiercely protected by Bay Mills Indian
Community and its citizens.

The right to fish, hunt, and gather throughout the ceded territory under the
1836 Treaty of Washington is dependent upon the ability of the Great Lakes and
inland ecosystems to support viable and stable resources. Commercial and
subsistence fishing is the primary occupation of the Bay Mills Indian Community
tribal citizens from treaty times until present day, and over half of the
tribe’s citizen households rely on fishing for all or a portion of their annual
income.

The Straits of Mackinac area is one of the most strategically located areas in
the Great Lakes region and has been the center for cultural contact and
interaction for thousands of years; it is sensitive and sacred place which holds
terrestrial and bottomland archaeological sites, submerged paleo landscapes,
cemeteries and isolated human burials, significant architecture and objects, and
historic districts. For the Bay Mills Indian Community, the Straits of Mackinac
are a Traditional Cultural Landscape and Property that is eligible for inclusion
in the National Register of Historic Places based on its associations with the
cultural practices, traditions, histories, beliefs, lifeways, arts, and social
institutions of their living community.

Since 1953, Enbridge Energy, Inc. and its predecessor companies have operated a
645 mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline, named Line 5, that runs through the State
of Michigan and Bay Mills Indian Community’s treaty ceded territory, which
transports a variety of petroleum products. The Line 5 dual pipelines were
designed to function for a 50-year period, which has already expired, and is
subject to ruptures that have amounted to more than 1,000,000 gallons of oil and
natural gas spills, directly impacting the health of the entire region. The
Environmental Protection Agency has fined Enbridge Energy, Inc. $6.5 million
dollars for failure to maintain and repair the Lakehead Pipeline System.
Continued operation of Line 5 dual pipelines will ultimately result in a rupture
of the pipeline, causing catastrophic damage to the lands and waters near the
Straits of Mackinac, destruction of the Tribal Nation’s treaty rights, and harm
the people who depend on the Great Lakes for their economic livelihood, their
quality of life, their cultural wellbeing, and their very existence.

Sources: https://www.narf.org/cases/enbridges-line-5-pipeline/

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Mackinaw City July 27, 2021

JULY 29


WASHINGTON DC

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WASHINGTON, DC

After thousands of miles traveled and dozens of events across the country on the
#RedRoadtoDC Totem Pole Journey comes to the nation’s capital to draw attention
and action to sacred sites and Indigenous rights as we deliver the pole
to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and the Biden-Harris Administration.
The House of Tears Carvers and our partners cordially invite you to join us for
a ceremony and rally with tribal leaders, Native and allied organizers, and
Congresspeople.

The events listed below as well as the museum exhibition about the House of
Tears Carvers’ totem pole journeys are open to the public. We invite you to join
us — in person or online. For more information, please visit our Facebook page.

SCHEDULE

Thursday, July 29 

at the National Mall, at 3rd St SW, between Madison Drive NW and Jefferson Drive
SW

2:00–2:30 pm EST. Ceremony and totem pole delivery: remarks from totem pole
carver, Sec. Haaland, and Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of
American Indians
2:30–3:30 pm EST. Rally and remarks from tribal leaders and Indigenous activists

10 — 5:30 pm EST. People are invited to sign up online for free, timed tickets
to the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, where the Kwel’ Hoy:
We Draw the Line exhibition about the House of Tears Carvers’ totem pole
journeys is on view. 

Friday, July 30 

All day: Lobby day for tribal delegations from Red Road to DC physical and
virtual journey stops.

11 am–5 pm EST. Red Road totem pole will be available for viewing and visiting
outside at Maryland Ave SW, between 3rd and 4th Streets SW. Free and open to the
public: .

10 — 5:30 pm EST. People are invited to sign up online for free, timed tickets
to the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, where the Kwel’ Hoy:
We Draw the Line exhibition about the House of Tears Carvers’ totem pole
journeys is on view. 

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Washington DC July 29, 2021


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FROM THE WASHINGTON POST: A 25-FOOT NATIVE AMERICAN TOTEM POLE ARRIVES IN D.C.
AFTER A JOURNEY TO SACRED LANDS ACROSS U.S.

July 30, 2021 | Washington DC

A 25-foot totem pole, intricately hand-carved and painted by Native Americans,
arrived in the nation’s capital Wednesday afternoon after a two-week
cross-country journey from Washington state, as part of a campaign to protect
sacred tribal lands. Hauled on a flatbed trailer, the roughly 5,000-pound totem
pole was brought to the front entrance of the National … Read Update

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