Indigienous Peoples Issues
Calling all community members and allies: Join us and walk for the healing of mother earth and her sacred waters.
Mother earth needs our help in the protection and healing of the land and water. We as Indigenous people are caretakers of the earth and we need to work together for the health and safety for the next generations.
We, the Keepers of the Athabasca, are calling on allies and supporters to join us on a healing walk on Saturday, June 25, 2011. We are asking all community members of the Tar Sands region and supporters to come out and walk for the healing of the land and our sacred waters. The walk will be led by First Nation and Metis elders and community members but we are hoping that our allies will come out to walk beside them as supporters as well. Read more »
Tell the Alberta government the Athabasca Region deserves better!
Early this month, the Alberta government released a draft of the Lower Athabasca Land Use Plan (LARP). The LARP intends to guide development in Northern Alberta for the next 50 years, yet it fails to address local social and environmental needs, and is based on a projection of continued tar sands extraction and a six-fold increase in production. This would decimate this fragile region and the people and species living in it. Read more »
A panel featuring Cree Elder Lillian Shirt, Indigenous rights lawyer Clayton Leonard and Indigenous activist and Greenpeace campaigner Melina Massimo-Laboucan.
Many are surprised to learn that within Canada are people who the Public Health Agency of Canada say live in “third world conditions”; in fact, many Indigenous communities on Turtle Island live without access to one of the most basic needs: clean water.
Come to learn about what made this the reality in Canada, and what is being and can be done in the fight for water justice. Read more »
Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex (ETLC) Room 1-007
University of Alberta (East of 116 St between 91 and 92 Avenues)
Edmonton,
AB
Mar 23 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
ConocoPhillips IRIS Public Seminar Read more »
RGO Room, 4th Floor Scurfield Hall
University of Calgary
Calgary,
AB
Mar 18 2011 - 7:30am - 9:00am
Field notes from the Energy Indigenous Environment Interface research program
The most commercially successful film in history deals with indigenous peoples and industrial resource extraction to feed humanity’s growing consumption of energy. Although set in a futuristic world on the fictitious planet of Pandora, parallels to the Amazon jungle and Alberta’s oil sands have not been lost on the public. Read more »
Petroleum Club
319 5 Avenue SW
Calgary,
AB
Tell the Alberta and Canadian Governments to ensure Treaty rights are protected by ensuring Indigenous Baseline Water Flow needs are upheld within an Athabasca River water policy!
First! Sign the petition! http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41360.html
A long overdue report released on December 9th titled'As Long as the Rivers Flow: Athabasca River Knowledge, Use and Change' outlines how Treaty rights for the Indigenous people of the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree Nations have been undermined by increasingly low water quality and quantity within the Athabasca river. It points out concerns with the impacts of climate change and industrial development along the river, and makes specific requests with regards to water use and future tar sands development. Read more »
Solidarity Rally!
No Tar Sands, No Tankers, No Pipeline, No Problem - Clean Energy Now!
Stand in solidarity with communities from Alberta to the BC coast fighting the Tar Sands, the most environmentally devastating project in human history. There will be rallies happening on October 16th and 17th in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and in Prince George to send the message loud and clear that the extraction and transportation of dirty oil is not the answer! Read more »
McIntyre (Gazebo) Park
83 Avenue & 104 Street
Edmonton,
AB
Mar 27 2010 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Sacred
Heart Church of the First Peoples is pleased to present the film "For the Next 7 Generations: 13 Indigenous
Grandmothers Weaving a World that Works" followed
by a discussion and refreshments. Following the screening, we will have a
discussion with our guest, Cindy Gaudet, Métis Woman, Educator. She will share
her experiences with the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. We look forward to
welcoming those from all walks of life and to generating positive community
relations in addressing these important teachings for the next seven
generations.
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Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples
10821 96 Street NW
Edmonton,
AB
