Giving Voice to Mother Earth
Words spoken in protection of the community of water, air,
land and all beings
surrounding Lake Superior.
Television personality Patty Loew is an elegant speaker for treaty rights
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A Bad River Ojibwe tribal member and (PBS) journalist Dr. Patty Loew gave the keynote address “First Stewards, First Nations of Wisconsin,” during late June 2007, at the Northwestern Wisconsin Lakes Conference near Cable, Wisconsin. Dr. Loew told stories about Anishinaabe relationships with the land and water, especially wolves and wild rice, and the struggle for treaty rights. She closed with an inspirational prophecy about a “new people” coming together to love and protect the earth. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network recorded Dr. Loew’s speech.
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“We want to make sure there’s clean water out there"
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On the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa Reservation, in northern Wisconsin, the Environmental Protection Agency conducted a public meeting about the Lac du Flambeau tribe’s efforts to protect water quality. Recognizing tribal sovereignty, under the Clean Water Act, tribes can apply for Treatment as State (TAS) authority to run their own water quality programs, just as a state would. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network reports. |
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians protects water
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The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians is seeking authority to establish strict new water quality standards because water is essential to life. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network talks with a Lac du Flambeau tribal natural resources manager and an elder about efforts to protect water on the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa reservation. |
Midwest Environmental Advocates Help Others Protect Their Waters
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Midwest Environmental Advocates, the first and only non-profit
environmental law center in Wisconsin, joined with native and non-native
allies around
Wisconsin
to host
Joining the Waters,
a forum highlighting the connections between water quality issues and
native sovereignty.
Joining the Waters, held in October of 2005, provided a unique opportunity to discuss water quality in Wisconsin, how tribes are using their authority to protect water resources, and how conservation groups and tribes can better coordinate their efforts to keep Wisconsin’s waters clean. To listen to selected talks by forum participants click here. |
Tom Goldtooth: A Voice For The Four Directions
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Tom Goldtooth has traveled to the four
directions fighting exploitation of native lands. Goldtooth is the
internationally well respected voice of the indigenous peoples, as
executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. |
the "food that grows upon the water" Mahnomin
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Since time ancestral harvesting wild rice in the clean lakes and
streams of northern Wisconsin has been the way of life. Every fall
canoes slide out into "the food that grows upon the water" as the
Anishinaabe were directed to do. Harvesting wild rice under turquoise skies on crisp autumn days has become a way of life with "niijii's", friends and neighbors of the Ojibwa Native Americans. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |