ALSO from Oil & Water Don’t Mix Last night, the Michigan Supreme Court did something Enbridge didn’t think was coming and vacated approval of the Line 5 oil tunnel. The justices didn’t split hairs. They found the tunnel has no state siting approval that’s required under federal law. And they held that before any state agency…
Category: Native Americans
#FF — Unshakable Bodhisattva
Unshakable Bodhisattva While Canadian soldiers were being sent abroad by their government in WWII to fight fascism, at home, agents were stealing babies from Indigenous families. Little Buffy was shipped south, to a white family in America, to have the Indian scrubbed from her. After double university degrees, Buffy returned to her reservation and was…
from Turtle Talk — REDress Project at University of Michigan
Art Can Speak Volumes Where Words Fail
FFF 62 — Enbridge Line 5 developments
click on link to take you to a page with various live cams trained on Mackinac Straits area Today I’ve learned about two big developments in the fight against Canada’s Enbridge building a tunnel around their decrepit oil pipelines running under the Straits of Mackinac, where 21% of the world’s fresh water resides. The first,…
from Turtle Talk: Historical States’ Land Grabs from Native American Tribes continues (my title)
“More Than Morrill: The Intertwined History of Indian Land Dispossession, Arizona Statehood, and University Enrichment,” by Teresa M. Miguel-Stearns, Samantha Ginsberg, and Kristen Cook
#SLS — Tecumseh Valley by Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt, Our Mother The Mountain album cover One day God touched me on the shoulderand said…‘SON, WRITE THESE SONGS.’So I did.—Townes Van Zandt Anyone who has heard a Townes Van Zandt song knows that he is singing from a God-ordained place. He chronicles the human condition like no other. He sings with an…
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