As Enbridge pushes ahead with its plans for the Line 5 tar sands pipeline, these women are organizing to stop it.
That water is our relative, and we will do whatever it takes to protect our water, our sacred relative.“There needs to be a shift, to ensure that tribes and Indigenous communities are part of the process, not after the fact but from the very beginning. That’s consultation.
“Water is what sustains our life, we must have respect and treat her well. It has to go beyond protecting her, but that’s the issue, that’s not even happening. So everything that we do to that water, we’re doing to ourselves. “Not only are they resources—I don’t really like that word because it seems like it’s a thing to use, rather than being a thing to take care—but those are beings who take care of us, and just like family, we take care of each other. It doesn’t mean we don’t kill animals or cut down trees, but there’s a way to do it and a way not to do it. By frivolously wasting those beings’ lives, that’s genocide.
“It could be a very big impact on me: My family are fishermen. The water is our playground, and no matter where Line 5 is, if there is a breakage with oil going into the water, it could do a lot of damage. One day we could be playing and go out of our houses, and look at the water, and there might be nothing but black oil and dead fish on the shores.” Gina Peltier.
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