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Indigenous Environmental Network

INDIGENOUS
ENVIRONMENTAL
NETWORK

PO Box 485
Bemidji, MN 56619
tel: 218- 751-4967
fax: 218-751-0561
email ien@igc.org

 

CONFERENCES . . . past

  2006 :

  • Sacredness of Water, Toxics & Environmental Health
  • Energy (Nuclear, Fossil Fuel, Dams, Renewable Energy)
  • Climate Justice, Forests, Artic National Wildlife Refuge
  • Guardianship for the Seventh Generation ....
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Cass Lake MN , July 6th - 9th
flyer.pdf, flyer.doc

Energy genocide, backlash yield new peoples' movement in the Americas
07/24/06 Indian Country Today and IEN conference brings regeneration for warriors
Indigenous International
Grassroots Environmental Gathering
Tribute and in memory of Great Lakes treaty rights and environmental justice activist Walt Bresette, Red Cliff Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) of the Loon Clan who passed in 1999

"Pictures, news articles and reports" to come...

 

EARTH JUSTICE GATHERING
AT THE GRASSY NARROWS BLOCKADE
JULY 10 - 16, 2006

This summer Rainforest Action
Network and ForestEthics
invite you to a week of workshops,
trainings, stories,
campfires, feasting, music and
action at the Grassy Narrows
blockade.

Workshops and
trainings will
include:

* Non-violent Direct Action
* Decolonization
* Native land Rights
* Activist Legal Defence
* Traditional Stories
* Boreal Ecology
* Tree Climbing
* Media Activism
* Creative Resistance
* Radical Cheerleading
* Forest Defense Tactics and Strategies

On December 2nd 2002, the indigenous youth of Grassy Narrows lay down in the path of industrial logging trucks – blocking access to their traditional lands and sparking what is now the longest standing indigenous blockade in Canada


  2005 :

North American Indigenous Mining Summit. Edmonton, Alberta

Flyer formats: .doc or .pdf  
Draft Agenda (as of July 15, 2005) formats: html, .doc or .pdf
download the free . pdf Reader

South West Water Conference,  August 3 - 6th, 2005
From: International Indian Treaty Council . 2005 International Indian Treaty Council Conference, August 3 - 7, Alberta Canada Conferencia de 2005 del Consejo Internacional de Tratados Indios, 3 - 7 de agosto, Alberta Canada . Ermineskin Conference Commission on International Standards for Defending Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (.pdf) .

2004 :

13th Protecting Mother Earth Conference. Co-hosts Concerned Rosebud Area Citizens, Rosebud Sioux Tribe and Sinte Gleska University. - Black Hills SD

Focus themes:

Water, Globalization and Free Trade, Energy – oil, gas, nuclear, coal and coal bed methane, hydro geothermal, Climate Justice, Renewable Energy – Wind/Solar, Native Youth Movement Building – Leadership and Activism on Environmental Justice & Building Sustainable Communities

Flyer, info, Agenda

2003 :

(from: AMERICAS PROGRAM   http://americas.irc-online.org/citizen-action/series/14-ien.html)

'... the 2003 annual meeting produced the Indigenous Declaration on Water that states: “We seek support and solidarity for the opposition to any free trade agreements that purport to privatize water and trade water as a commodity, including the North American Free Trade Agreement and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.” '

 2002 :

"Uniting to Address Mining in Indian Country"
North American Indigenous Mining Summit. Co-sponsored by The Sokaogon Chippewa Community, The Indigenous Mining Campaign Project, which is a partnership between The Indigenous Environmental Network and Project Underground. Spirit Run Sponsored by The Lac Vieux Desert Community Mole Lake Indian Reservation (near Crandon, Wisconsin) USA

poster   information

2001 :

"Reclaiming Our Responsibilities"
12th Annual Protecting Mother Earth Conference. Okanagan Territories, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada.

2000 :

"Reclaiming Our Sacred Water: Purfication, Healing & Activism"
11th Annual Protecting Mother Earth Conference. IEN and Casa De Colors, Brownsville, Texas
Water Report : html format print declaration pdf format doc format

  Conference , Agenda

1999 :

"A Creation Placed at the Foothills of our Sacred Mountains by our Holy People"
10th Annual Protecting Mother Earth Conference. IEN and Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment Laguna, New Mexico

Conference , about , Plenary

1998 :

"Honoring Sacred Places"
9th Annual Protecting Mother Earth Conference. Modoc National Forest, Californa

Conference , info , about the Conference , Agenda

1997 :

"The Mountains are the Heart of the Peoples"
8th Annual Protecting Mother Earth Conference. Co-hosted by: White Clay Society and Buffalo Chasers - at the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana.
Flyer

Declaration From The North American Indigenous Peoples Summit On Biological Diversity And Biological Ethics

Declaration

1996 :

"Our Rivers are Life -"E-GWO-NA DU-WEYA I-DE-HA I-YU-S-DI"
7th Annual Protecting Mother Earth Conference. Hosted by : The Eastern Cherokee Defense League - at The Big Cove Cherokee Community, North Carolina

Conference , Agenda

1994 :

MTN coordinates 9th(??) annual Protecting Mother Earth Conference at Mole Lake, in conjunction with the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) Protect the Earth Gathering, bringing 1000 attendees in all. A spiritual walk goes to mine site, children hold their own protest, and people mix water in a ceremony. The Wisconsin Review Commission (WRC) holds a citizens' hearing on the track records of Exxon and Rio Algom, with testifiers from Alaska, Colombia, Ontario, and New Mexico.

1990 :

(from: AMERICAS PROGRAM http://americas.irc-online.org/citizen-action/series/14-ien.html)

 

 

 

 


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