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Native Americans & Canadians Sign Defence Treaty

Saturday, February 23, 2013 9:47

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These representatives, participants in the January 23-25 event “Gathering to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands and Keystone XL,” formally agreed to “mutually and collectively oppose tar sands projects which would impact [their] territory, including but not limited to the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, the Enbridge Northern Gateway, Enbridge lines 9 and sixty-seven, or the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain pipeline and tanker projects.”

Culminating in the midst of the widespread Idle No More Movement, this treaty builds upon the tradition of numerous previous indigenous declarations such as the Save the Fraser River Declaration, the Rights of Mother Earth Accord, the Indigenous Leaders Spiritual Declaration, the Earth Charter, and the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The conference and subsequent declaration occurred on the 150th anniversary of the Pawnee Nation and Ihanktonwan Dakota/Nakota Peace Treaty. Signed on January 23, 1863, this was the first known written peace treaty between Indian Nations in history.

The new treaty serves to reinforce the legal authority of the 1863 treaty and bring new attention to the problem of tar sands drilling in the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada.

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I LOVE this. What is more inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time than Native American peoples coming together in defence of their earth, like they have always done. With all my heart I support this and wish them luck. I for one am not ashamed to say I am sorry. I hope you get your land back, i hope you get your freedoms back and I hope you get your prosperity back. -Mort

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Total 5 comments

Betsy.B.Scott

I too support Idle No More because the more they fight corporations (a good thing) and profess their claim to the land the closer they get to having to address their real “secret” of who they’re not.

Feb 23, 2013, 2:55 pm 0 Reply
Anonymous

Native Americans over used their resources just like ever one else.They just had a lot of resources compared to their population. People like to fantasize about them like they were all caring for mother earth.

Feb 23, 2013, 5:33 pm 0 Reply
- Troll King
  
  To the “Anonymous” above…Better to be thought a fool than to write something really stupid and prove it!!! You are obviously a complete and utter dumbass!
  
  Feb 23, 2013, 6:18 pm 0 Reply
  - Truth1
    
    Agreed.
    
    Feb 23, 2013, 10:39 pm 0 Reply
ImprobabilityDrive

Good job, Mort.

I hope you get your land back, i hope you get your freedoms back and I hope you get your prosperity back.

me too, wish you this every single day. i am so happy to see you standing up!!

Feb 24, 2013, 1:08 pm 0 Reply

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