Kent County chapter activist Ann Pohl was presented with an eagle feather at Saturday’s Peace and Friendship Alliance – NS meeting this past Saturday. Dorene Bernard of Sipekne’katik chose to honour Ann for her work supporting Mi’kmaq people since she moved to the territory 13 years ago, including in the fight to oppose fracking and making a legal claim for Aboriginal title in Elsipogtog, supporting residential school memorials and supporting water walks throughout Mi’kma’ki.
Ann Pohl receives an eagle feather from Dorene Bernard at the Peace and Friendship Alliance – NS meeting this past weekend in Sipekne’katik.
Inverness chapter activists Andrea Currie and Catherine Hart were also at the meeting and raised concerns with forestry practices and the unsustainable NS Power Inc’s biomass plant in their community which burns at 21% efficiency.
Some participants at the meeting this past weekend in Sipekne’katik.
Dorene updated us on the current conditions at the Treaty Truckhouse which after a wet spring and high river levels are not good! The Truckhouse needs a solidarity makeover for the coming opposition to Alton Gas (check out this video for more information), including their sendoff party when they chose to close up shop and leave Nova Scotia for good. The cleanup is planned for June 3rd weekend; stay tuned to facebook (Peace and Friendship Alliance NS or the Treaty Truckhouse group) for updates on this.
The Treaty Truckhouse in the community of Fort Ellis, NS, along the banks of the Shubenacadie River and beside the river site of the Alton Gas storage project, taken this past weekend. You can see the mud from the river has come up to the base of the structure and even inside is covered in mud.
The Peace and Friendship Treaties were intended to include every living thing, not just humans, and the Treaty Truckhouse was a smart way to use the treaties to help defend the Shubenacadie River from this project. It was built at the Alton Gas river site last spring to exercise the treaty right to build a place to trade or sell goods, per the treaty of 1762. Frontline communities across Turtle Island (North America) should consult their treaties to see what provisions exist in the text to defend their communities while restarting the tradition of nation to nation trade.
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