The sacred harvest: Ojibway wild rice gathering Video
The Native Wild Rice Coalition Presents Dancing and Winnowing Manoomin The sacred harvest: Ojibway wild rice gatheringLead Taysha Martineau c. She and other water protectors stage actions from the camp and are working to learn traditional Ojibwe ways there. Photo by Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today Editor's note: This story originally appeared in Indian Country Today and is republished Ojibwsy as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Part 1 of an ongoing series Jason Goward was overjoyed to get a high-paying job on Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline project.
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The job, clearing ground with a contractor for the Canadian energy company, meant he could at last pay child support for his two young sons. He could buy groceries, pay for heat. And maybe, just maybe, he could dig his way out of poverty. One of the Ojibwe leadership clans is named after the crane — ajijaak, the ones who speak on behalf of the people.
The cranes were frantically fleeing the wetlands at the sound and disturbance of the heavy machinery he operated. Protesters gathered to oppose the pipeline, shouting at Goward and demanding to know why he was destroying his homelands. He recognized friends among the water protectors, as they are known, friends with whom he has worked on past community projects. One was crying. And he thought of his young sons, who might one day want to hunt, gather medicines and harvest rice as part of their Ojibwe birthright.
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I began to think of the pipeline's impact on our water and wild rice; that rice is part of the reason Ojibwe came to this area so long ago. As it cuts across the Fond du Lac reservation, treaty lands of several other bands of Ojibwe and the headwaters of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota, the project has brought not just jobs but controversy and discord into the most intimate spheres of spirituality, family and community. The friction intensified as Enbridge pumped large sums of money into local communities along Why Consumerism Bad pipeline The sacred harvest: Ojibway wild rice gathering through donations, jobs, tax revenues, money for local policing and local advertisements.
In the process, the company won support from some local governments, an agreement from at least one tribe not to oppose the project and acceptance from untold tribal members. The approach is far different from the violent confrontations in over the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock in North Dakota.
There, pipeline owners and law enforcement used rubber bullets, water cannons, tear gas and other tactics against protestors.
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Enbridge leaders point to the thousands of jobs created by the project. Sections of pipe.
Map of line 3. The latest Line 3 project is designed to replace miles of existing inch pipeline with miles of inch pipe with capacity to carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to Superior, Wisconsin. Related: Tribes, faith leaders petition Biden to end Enbridge Line 3 pipeline The project, first proposed in gatherint, received its final permit from the Army Corps of Engineers in November. Work has already begun on laying the new line and the pipeline is set to be completed by the end of the year.]
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