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A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy
Protect, Repair, Invest, and Transform
This launch of A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy: Protect, Repair, Invest and Transform guides us collectively into a sustainable future, wherein Indigenous sovereignty and values are front and center. This is important because in order to visualize a better path forward, we must reconceptualize our framing away from the capitalistic systems that harm our Grandmother Earth, our Father Sky, our communities, our families, and our futures.
We must recognize the way governmental infrastructure, jobs, the environment, and our communities are being negatively impacted by not only the climate crisis and demise of capitalism, but also the way these impacts are exacerbated by a global pandemic with Covid-19. It is our stance that the problems created and perpetuated by colonization and capitalism cannot find solutions in those same frames. This is why it is crucial our Indigenous communities and nations recognize our place in this conversation. Click HERE to Learn More…
Big Oil Reality Check
Liberty Mutual and Indigenous Rights
Liberty Mutual is one of the largest insurance companies in the United States, providing coverage for millions of homes, vehicles, and other properties. It also happens to provide coverage for one of the largest carbon bombs on the planet, the destructive tar sands sector. This support spells disaster for Mother Earth, the climate, Indigenous peoples and our inherent rights.
We joined the Insure our Future campaign back in October 2019, and since then Liberty Mutual has already responded by limiting coal insurance and investing. However, the Boston-based insurer continues to be a huge backer of the tar sands oil sector.
Celebrating a Win for the Sovereignty of the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes
“This is a big win for the Oceti Sakowin or Great Sioux Nation and all our ally tribes and friends who came to stand with us to protect water and the future of our children. We said from the beginning that the crossing of the Missouri river was illegal and that an EIS was necessary. I’m glad the judge saw the inherent dangers of keeping the oil flowing on DAPL while this study moves forward. That in of itself is vindication for all the trials we went through. This is a win for the grassroots people of the Oceti Sakowin and I couldn’t be happier.” said Joye Braun, the first camper at Sacred Stone Camp.
FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE SHUT DOWN
July 6th, 2020 (Oceti Sakowin Territory)- Today a federal judge ordered Dakota Access, LLC a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, to shut down and empty their Dakota Access Pipeline. This order is part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes. The court recently found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it granted an easement to Dakota Access, LLC due to a failure to conduct a full environmental impact review on the project. This newest decision by the court orders the pipeline to shut down within 30 days and to remain shut down until the environmental review is complete.
New Map Shows KXL Pipeline Route
June 25, 2020 (Bemidji, MN) – The Indigenous Environmental Network, in collaboration with the Climate Alliance Mapping Project and the Keystone XL Mapping Project, have just launched the KXL Pipeline Map, an interactive tool that highlights the route of the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline, a tar sands project of the TC Energy corporation. This map is a free and public tool designed to support impacted communities along the route about the risks of living in proximity to fossil fuel pipelines and development.
“NOT MY FOOT”
Rio Arriba County staff are taking down the statue of Spanish colonizer Don Juan de Oñate. (SUNfoto by Molly Montgomery)
The second major expedition in 1540, led by Francisco de Coronado was to find the seven cities which led the expedition to Kansas never to find the fabled cities. What the colonial expeditions brought to the Pueblo Nation of New Mexico was systemic spiritual, cultural, social, economic, and political change. Armed with colonial laws like the 1532 Doctrine of Discovery, Spanish colonizers began claiming aboriginal lands and natural resources in the name of the King of Spain. Land grants were presented to Pueblo leaders from the Spanish monarchy in lands Pueblo people had lived on for thousands of years before the Spanish entrada.
In 1598, my people of Acoma Pueblo encountered the Onate expedition which had formally taken possession of New Mexico on July 11, 1598, in the area of Juarez, Mexico. In his trek northward Onate established headquarters near San Juan Pueblo (now changed to the aboriginal Pueblo name of Ohkay Owingeh) on the Rio Grande River which became the first established capital in North America and Onate the first Governor. Pueblos were forced to convert to Catholicism.
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