- A working agenda & What to bring
- A series of maps to help you get there and find where we all will meet
- A resource list of Water articles and activities that you can find on the internet *attached as footnote
- A list of recommended readings
- An extra copy of the flyer and registration form
Boozhoo,
Ninduwaymawgunnidoog,
Omaw ni
kwudge itoon duh ozhibeeigay bugee ayzhi anokii duh ganawendawn nibi. Ni
kwudge itoon duh nisidotawn wah ikidoon ni nookomisun meenawah
nimishomisun. Ni migwetchiwayndawn ayzhi midewijig gizawgeein ni mama
akeeng. Mi ewe wah ni wi ikidoo noogoom. Meegwetch bizinduhwee'eg.
Bawshkeeng
Wabigun,
Wabiguneesun
ga onji odawdiseeyawn, Ginew indodaym
Neezho
mide indow.
Giganawendamin
Nibi - We must all take care of the Water
In the
Late Summer of 2005, Nugumoo Maingen (Sharon Day), Wabanew Quay (Dorene Day)
and Bawshkeeng Wabigun (Tara Chadwick) attended a manidoons (insect -
macroinvertebrate) training at the Leech Lake Water Lab. Lab director John Purcell provided a brief
introduction to macroinvertebrate sample analysis as a screening tool in water
quality monitoring and how to adapt this screening method to a multi
generational, community based audience.
A cultural training session was held at St. Paul's Como Lake with the
help of Bedawsegay (Josephine Mandahmin), lead organizer of the Mother Earth
Water Walk.
The
project is designed to build the knowledge capacity of Native American women to
test their own community waters, organize their families and communities to
address any toxic or pollution problems, and become active in holding tribal,
state and federal governments accountable to the environmental health of Native
communities, including ensuring continued access to safe, clean
water.
Collaborations
have been formed with environmental and health organizations and projects such
as the Minnesota Native American Council on Tobacco, the Chalchiutlicue
Environmental Project, the Women’s Environmental Institute and the Indigenous
Environmental Network. These developing
collaborations have provided considerable leverage to help raise awareness of
the urgent need to take action in protection of and community ownership of
water and water policy (as well as broader environmental causes and impacts) in
a variety of distinct and interrelated cultural communities in Minnesota and
internationally.
Although
organizing our own community and assessing community readiness to take on new
(ancestral) levels of commitment and communal responsibility has proven a greater
challenge than originally anticipated, the challenge has also revealed new
possibilities for creatively overcoming barriers to community
participation. The most important lesson
learned is that it is imperative to begin our organizing efforts with the people
whom we collectively already know; and to build on this constituency through
intentionally forming new relationships with people who have the potential
to develop into leaders of the movement to empower Native American women to
reclaim their ancestral responsibility as those who will ensure that clean
water will be available and accessible for their children and grandchildren
seven generations into the future.
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Articles –“Women are the First Environment” Cook,
Katsi. 2003. In Indian Country
Today.
December 23.http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1072203481
“Sense of Place and Place-Based Introductory
Geoscience Teaching for
American Indian
and Alaskan Native Undergraduates”
http://semken.asu.edu/semken05_sop.pdf
Community-Based Drinking
Water Quality Analysis
http://www.engg.ksu.edu/hsrc/international/ALOFinalReport.pdf
Highlights
from Greg Cajete's Thesis - "Science:
a Native American perspective: A
culturally
based science education curriculum”
http://www.usask.ca/education/ccstu/guiding_documents/cajete_thesis.htm
Indigenous Environmental
Network
http://www.ienearth.org/water_campaign.html
http://www.ienearth.org/15th_Indigenous_Environmental_Network_Flyer.pdf
Indigenous Peoples Statement
to the UN
http://www.ienearth.org/water_ip_kyoto.pdf
Indigenous Women’s Mercury
Investigation
Learn more about water online
at
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/water/
Minnaqua Fishing Curriculum
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/minnaqua/index.html
Sacred Lands Reader and more
(Sacred Land Film Project)
http://www.sacredland.org/resources.html
Test your water knowledge
quiz
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. 2002. Fish Consumption and Environmental
Justice:
A Report developed from the National Environmental Justice Advisory
Council
Meeting of December 3-6, 2001
http://www.epa.gov/oecaerth/resources/publications/ej/nejac/fish-consump-report_1102.pdf
U.S. Geological Survey Water
Calculator
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/sq3.html
Water footprint calculator
Water Policy and Indigenous Women’s Leadership
Training
Reading List
Bobo, Lawrence D. and Mia
Tuan. 2006. Linking Prejudice and Politics. Prejudice
in
Politics.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 23-47.
Bullard, Robert D. Anatomy of
Environmental Racism. 1993. In Richard Hofrichter (ed.) Toxic
Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental
Justice. Philadelphia, PA: New
Society Publishers, pp. 25-35.
Cajete, Gregory. 2000. A
Sense of Place. Native Science: Natural
Laws if Interdependence.
Santa
Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers.
Glieck, Peter et al. The
Human Right to Water: Two Steps forward, One Step Back. The World’s Water:
2004-2005
Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources.
Washington, DC: Island Press, pp. 204-
212.
Glieck, Peter et al.
Substantive Issues Arising in the Implementation of International Covenent on
Economic, Social, & Cultural Rights. The World’s Water: 2004-2005 Biennial Report
on
Freshwater
Resources. Washington, DC: Island
Press, pp. 213-226.
Goldtooth, Tom B. K. 1995. Indigenous Nations: Summary of Sovereignty and Its Implications
for
Environmental
Protection. In Bunyan Bryant (Ed.) Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies and
Solutions. Washington, D.C.: Island
Preess, pp.138-148.
Greaves, Thomas. 2001.
Contextualizing the Environmental Struggle. In John A. Grim (Ed.), Indigenous
Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology
and Community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, pp. 25-46.
Hendee, John C. and Chad P.
Dawson. Wilderness Management Planning. In Wilderness
Management:
Stewardship and Protection of Resources and Values (3rd Ed).
Golden,
CO: Fulcrum Publishing, pp. 208-229.
LaDuke, Winona. A Society Based on Conquest Cannot Be
Sustained: Native Peoples and the
Environmental Crisis.
In Richard Hofrichter (ed.) Toxic
Struggles: The Theory and Practice of
Environmental
Justice. Philadelphia, PA: New
Society Publishers, pp. 99-106.
Pielou, E.C. 1998. The Water
Cycle. In Fresh water. Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, pp. 5-37
Randolph, John. 2004.
Collaborative Environmental Management and Public
Participation.
Environmental Land Use Planning and
Management. Washington:
Island
Press, pp. 53-74.
Schaeffer, Carol. 2006. Sacred Relations. Grandmothers Counsel the World:
Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet. Boston, MA: Trumpeter Books, pp. 145-160.
Shiva, Vandana. 2002. Water
Rights: The State. The Market, The Community. Water Wars:
Privitization,Pollution, & Profit. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, pp. 19-37.
Shiva, Vandana. 2002. The
Sacred Waters. Water Wars: Privitization,
Pollution, &
