World Water Day is Saturday March 22 and few people mention the racism and genocide that is part and parcel of the destruction of ecosystems and freshwater aquifers that are a primary part of our ecosystems--- water required for our very survival.
Roger Jourdain, Red Lake Nation Chair for almost 30 years fought hard to prohibit peat mining in northern Minnesota's Big Bog. He said, "If you destroy this freshwater aquifer you destroy my People and my Nation."
Jourdain's body wasn't even cold and in the ground when racist and corrupt Democrats led Congressman James Oberstar took up with a Canadian multi-national which had contributed tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns and they went ahead with providing this multi-national conglomerate a permit to mine the peat which requires draining the Big Bog.
Read more here:
http://pineislandstateforest.blogspot.com/
And this:
http://redlakewalleyefishery.blogspot.com/
Many environmentalists are wrongly thinking that Native Rights will supersede the rights of local, state and federal governments along with the corporations which (maybe I am supposed to say, "corporations who" with this corporate personhood crap?) exploit labor to rape the land but this is not the case as these environmentalists don't understand the "Doctrine of Discovery," the most hideously racist and genocidal doctrine enshrined into law through the United States Supreme Court ruling of Johnson versus M'Itosh; check out what this is all about here:
http://www.nyym.org/?q=doc_of_disc_factsheet
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