Without land, water, and culture, we are nothing. The river systems are the life, and … grandmother moon, grandfather sun— everything is alive. When youre raised with that relationship, that the foxes are your cousins and the eagles are your brothers, you start to have a totally different relationship and interaction with everything around you. And so much of humanity has lost that. But indigenous people have retained it somehow. If you kill the land, the waterways, the air and culture of those people, you essentially kill those people. And that, in fact, is the definition of genocide. ~Eriel Deranger If these pipelines go through, your government is going to further assist in the raping and pillaging of the lands of my ancestors, while deliberately ignoring the basic human rights of my children. My children have a basic human right to drink clean water and breathe clean air. … We all need to stop pretending, with our eyes closed and our blinders on, going by day by day, pretending this is not happening. Because it is. And Im here to remind you about that. There are people over there, and we are human beings too. ~Crystal Lameman Canadas Indigenous Fossil Fuel Resistance yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/indigenous-women-on-what-s-at-stake-in-the-tar-sands
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 04:14:44 +0000