Re: TREATY PEOPLE

[Molly Hankwitz]

hello, treaty people and indigenous friends,

this unique native land map  shows global lands
where there are treaties, indigenous languages spoken, and "territories".
produced by native-land.ca which is a canadian non-profit..."native land
digital is a canadian not-for-profit organization, incorporated in december
2018". here is the 'about' link and
the mostly indigi-genous "canadian" board of directors.

curiously, some global lands are completely uncharted, another way to
consider the social geography of "indigenous" maybe.

this organization has also produced an app
there are a few of these

enjoy
molly




molly hankwitz - she/her
http://bivoulab.org


On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 5:04 AM Andreas Broeckmann 
wrote:

> hey brian, thanks for sending this moving report.
>
> it strikes me that these Treaty People actually have treaties to refer
> to which, if they were honoured, would create bearable situations -- in
> comparison with so many other situations where there are only bad deals
> or "contracts" that were rotten in the first place, or straightforward
> robbery.
>
> i found this reference to "what it means to be treaty people":
>
> https://thevarsity.ca/2017/05/20/what-it-means-to-be-treaty-people/
>
> regards,
>
> -a
>
>
> Am 12.06.21 um 20:03 schrieb Brian Holmes:
> > The Mississippi River springs from innumerable lakes and wetlands in
> > northern Minnesota, where the indigenous Ojibwe harvest wild rice. In an
> > insane and suicidal world, what could be more beautiful than a rolling
> > green protest camp full of activists chanting "Water is life"?
> >
> > We got up early last Monday and made our way to the previously secret
> > location. It was a construction site: a pumping station along the route
> > of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline, which, if ever completed, would send
> > almost a million barrels of Tar Sands crude every day to US refineries
> > and Gulf Coast exporters. We were there to blockade, lock down on the
> > equipment and ultimately get arrested by the police: civil disobedience
> > by around two hundred people, with hundreds more in active support.
> > Meanwhile another, even larger group was heading for peaceful and
> > prayerful protest near Coffeepot Landing, at an Enbridge construction
> > easement where the pipeline would cross beneath the nascent Mississippi,
> > only a few yards wide at that point. Those folks are still there,
> > camping on the easement, after the indigenous sheriff decided on
> > conscience that he could not repress their action.
> >
> > I can tell you that it was blazing hot in the sun, that it was fabulous
> > to lock arms with your neighbors and find out why they had come to stare
> > down the cops, and that in a world condemned by speed and greed, there
> > is no better use of your precious time than a pipeline protest to
> > protect the rights of the people whom colonial capitalism has always
> > tried to eliminate, in order to create the disaster that is now facing
> > all of us.
> >
> > Jane Fonda spoke quite wonderfully while I sat in the shade of a
> > bulldozer, but incomparably more inspiring were the voices of Winona
> > LaDuke, from Honor the Earth, and Tara Houska, an indigenous lawyer and
> > founder of the Giniw protest camp.
> >
> > When the fuzz finally came out in force, late in the afternoon, they
> > were fast to invade and seal the pump station perimeter, but slow to
> > extract the activists who had locked down on the machines. Those of us
> > who were outside the gate at that moment formed a line and advanced
> > right up to the noses of the cops, chanting for hours till the sun set
> > with glorious colors and they finally came for all of us. The local
> > jails were full by then, so we would only get citations. They zip tied
> > our hands behind our backs and dragged us over to some bare bulldozed
> > ground. As I went down in the dust, a cry rose up: "Who are we?"
> > Everyone roared back with one voice: "Treaty People!"
> >
> > A protest action takes bodies and plans, concepts and visions. This
> > action was exquisitely planned to reveal the water and wild rice at one
> > site, the destructive equipment at another. The vision was clear: a
> > restoral of indigenous life in the territory, coinciding with a drawdown
> > of fossil-fuel infrastructure. And the concept was far-reaching.
> >
> > If we didn't know it already, we learned at the camp that the treaties
> > made between native tribes and the early US state were "the supreme law
> > of the land," enshrined in the Constitution, but honored only in the
> > breach. Those treaties gave the tribes who signed them rights to hunt,
> > fish, gather and carry out ceremonial activities on the treaty territory
> > forever, even though indigenous ownership of the land would be
> > restricted to much smaller reservations. Today those treaty rights must
> > be extended to entire ecosystems, because resource extraction, 

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