FNEN's Statement Re: The Seal Slaughter
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:23:14 -0700
Subject: FNEN's Statement Re: The Seal Slaughter
Dear Friends, Please use the following in any way you
feel
necessary...it
has been written collectively by our Steering
Committee across
Canada...Thankyou, For All Our Relations, Steve
Lawson, National
Coordinator, FNEN www.fnen.org 250 726-5265
To All Good People of Conscience:
A First Nation Environmental Network Offering of
Public Appeal and
Concern
The First Nations Environmental Network [FNEN] is a
circle of First
Nations
People committed to protecting, defending, and
restoring the Balance of
All
Life by honouring traditional Indigenous values and
the Path of our
Ancestors. We encourage the work of protecting,
defending and healing
Mother Earth. We desire and need to link grassroots
Indigenous People
nationally and internationally to support each other
on environmental
struggles and concerns. We are obligated to leave
footprints for our
Children to follow by striving to live our life with
traditional values
Another seal hunt is underway. An estimated kill
for this season
is
upwards to 20-30,000 young seals. This is hardly a
hunt, as these
targeted
seals are slaughtered while they nurse from their
mother before leaving
the
ice flows. As members of the First Nations Environment
Network, we are
struck and outraged by this wanton act of genocide.
David Suzuki,
famed and
renowned Environmentalist informs us that Human Beings
do not manage
the
eco-system; we instead, manipulate and disturb its
natural balance, to
think
otherwise, is ultimately laying the grounds for
species annihilation
including humanity.
DFO management has been repeatedly challenged for
to its unsound
scientific data and strategy; even the parliamentary
Committee on
Oceans and
the Fisheries [public hearing, Miramichi NB, fall
2000] acknowledge the
incredulous unscientific policy and approach DFO
habitually seems to
take
with regard to their responsibility for the care and
wellness of the
fishery. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
is
single-handedly
responsible for the deplorable conditions on the east
coast fishery,
where
species after species are disappearing.
As members of First Nations and Aboriginal
Communities, we
understand
the need for maintaining and establishing sound
economic and viable
Households and Communities; we know full well the
constant struggles to
attain meaningful and viable Lifeways under the duress
of imposed
economic
contrivances and poverty not of our making. Indeed,
much of the worlds
Indigenous Peoples are currently suffering from
situations imposed by
the
wealth and avarice of northern multi-nationals and
national resource
management schemes, as we are currently witnessing
from DFO.
Common sense must prevail that we, as human
Beings cannot destroy
Life
for economic gains. Rather, we must follow the
Original Instructions
that
celebrate Honour, Respect, and Care for Life in its
entirety. Let us be
reminded that human Beings are a part of Creation.
What we do as a
species
to other members of the Great Circle of Life, we do to
ourselves. To
confirm
this ancient Principal, we need only witness the
on-going calamities
humanity engages in as we speak. The simple threat to
All Life comes
from
only one species alone---humanity. The danger to All
Life from humanity
directly connects to misguided, greedy, self-servicing
notions for
obtaining
economic gain we rationalize to refer to as
stability and
sustainability. The present threat to All Life is
convincing us that
the
misuse of science and the lack of intelligence and
reason are creating
great
instability and imbalance in humanitys approach and
relationship with
the
natural world around us.
For the sake of all Life and the Life of
20-30,000 young seals,
human
Beings need to find courage to be responsible rather
than economically
practical in our common approach to sustainability.
FNEN invites
Aboriginal Peoples and North Americans to consider a
simple Life Plan,
based
upon the ancient and fundamental principals that have
carried
Indigenous
Peoples and Communities to Life. FNEN sees no other
way forward than
through
implementing common reason and respect for valuing
Life. We offer these
following principals, as a reasonable foundation for
living
sustainably:
- To respect and ensure that Life-Giving forces on
Mother Earth will
always
be there. We are committed to healing ourselves, our
families, our
communities and Mother Earth.
- Seeking and recognizing the Sacredness of All Life,
the FNEN is based
on
faith, honesty, caring and sharing.
- Faith in the Creator, the Circle of Life.
- Honesty: Each one of us has our own truth and it is
not for anyone to
judge another person's truth.
- Caring: Kindness and Love for each other and
ourselves.
- Sharing: Reverence and Respect for one another as we
share
Responsibility
for our various Obligations as Indigenous Peoples to
Mother Earth.
- Respect: There is a place for everyone in our
Circle. First we are
Spirit, then we are human, then we are man or woman
and then we are a
race.
We are all human and respect that we are all at
different places in our
understanding.
www.fnen.org
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