Weekend Reading and Efforts to Resist the Dakota Access Pipeline

Below are brief synopses and links to articles. Pick the one(s) that speak to you:

• The Canadian commitment to fully embrace the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Returning to Harmony, an essay about residential schools, intergenerational trauma, and healing by Richard Wagamese (Ojibwe)
• A United Nations proposal to increase participation by indigenous governments — and some pushback
• An update on resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline

 

Suggested reading and viewing

Food for thought:

• Sky Woman and Eve, a column by Mike Myers in Indian Country Today that explores the legacies of two women — Sky Woman, who created a garden, and Eve who was expelled from one — and the different world views of Native and non-Native peoples.

• A beautiful photo essay by Minnesota Public Radio from a recent Bemidji Pow Wow that brought together Native American and white communities.

• A six-minute trailer titled on “The Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent,” an emerging issue in Canadian politics and law.