Help Buy a High Efficiency Furnace for the Treaty Home

Our Treaty People Home in Duluth welcomes your help! We've provided a home to support leadership, storytelling and planning for several walks. This fall's project is to keep the Treaty Home warm and reduce the carbon footprint by replacing the old fuel oil furnace with a high efficiency gas one. An HVAC-trained relative and others are donating labor, we just need the furnace itself - about $2500!

Your generosity warms the home and hearts!

Support Water Protectors to continue efforts to protect and defend the sacred from environmental degradation due to extractive industries. We pray against the deadly rebuild of Line 5 across fragile ecosystems in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We pray for Water, with Water, and to the Water. Thank you for supporting our grassroots community-building efforts!

We pray for unity and healing!

More of the Story

Water has spirit, Water is alive and Water sustains all life. 

In 2021, a group committed to praying for and with Water began to walk. With Indigenous leaders, they walked over 250 miles from the Mississippi River headwaters to the Minnesota capitol in St. Paul for a day to Honor Treaties and fight the Line 3 Pipeline.

The group of Water Protectors continued. Walking, grieving and praying for another 160 miles along the proposed pipeline route across Northern Minnesota and ending in Superior, Wisconsin where a refinery belches death into the air next to one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world - Gitchi Gami.

In 2022 they walked another 150 miles along Lake Superior from Duluth to Ashland uniting the fight against Line 3 and Line 5. Hundreds welcomed the walkers and celebrated at the Communities United By Water festival.

In 2023, the group gathered in Michigan for the Water Is Life festival and walked the Mackinac Bridge - a massive, 5-mile suspension bridge across the Straits of Mackinac. An old pipeline built in the 1950s lies through this same expanse of water - threatening to rupture by boat anchor or storm. A proposed rebuild would construct a tunnel under the stretch of water that connects Great Lakes Michigan and Huron. Known for its unique and variable currents that regularly change direction, this project flirts with an unprecedented oil spill disaster at the hands of the same corporation responsible for the Kalamazoo, MI and Grand Rapids, MN spills - Enbridge. 

This mobile Water Protector community is retracing the steps of Anishnaabe who migrated west in search of Manoomin - food that grows on the water - aka wild rice. The prophecies foretell a reverse migration to recover what was lost along the way. Your support lifts up Water Protectors to protect and heal Mother Earth.