Turtle Island Solidarity Journey

TURTLE ISLAND SOLIDARITY JOURNEY 2018

Indigenous solidarity.  Wetland restoration. Lower Ninth Ward rebuilding. Oil and Gas impact reversal.  Volunteering, fellowship, and education.

We need your support. Please. Even a few dollars will make a difference and energize the team.

All funds will go to support the journey, and in particular the indigenous people of the Louisiana Gulf Coast and folks of the Lower Ninth Ward that we work with and that suffer from the effects of environmental racism.  

Details:

Ten people, indigenous and settler students led by Chief Myeengun Henry of the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation , Haudenosaunee Seedkeeper Terrylynn Brant of Six Nations of the Grand River, artist Emma Rain Smith and Professor Stephen Svenson of Wilfrid Laurier University will travel to Louisiana from April 26 to May 6. 

On this trip we will be providing support directly to the Point-au-Chiens Tribe and the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Band of Isles de Jean Charles both of whomare losing their land and their way of life due to climate change (sea level rise and increasingly violent hurricanes) and ongoing oil production.  Both have applied to be recognized by the United States government in order to access funds to address the impacts of climate change. Chief Henry and Seedkeeper Brant will acknowledge the Point-au-Ciens and Biloxi-Chitmacha-Choctaw on our visit as tribal nations. 


OUR GOAL
Our goal is to contribute directly to wetland restoration efforts in Louisiana and to raise awareness of the situation of environmental racism and climate displaced and threatened indigenous people on Turtle Island through direct experience in providing aid and through the creation of compelling visual media that tell this story.

Join us on our journey!
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*The Turtle Island Solidarity Journey is an act of reconciliation and solidarity between indigenous and non-indigenous people on Turtle Island.  We deal with the issues of climate change, settler colonialism and environmental racism, confronting these issues head on by encountering the damage that settler colonialism and environmental degradation has inflicted on communities. The forum through which this reconciliation happens is journeying together, as we collectively explore cases of environmental racism against indigenous people and people of colour on Turtle Island. This way of doing reconciliation emphasizes the need for accountability, a revised view of history, the sharing and exchange of indigenous knowledge, mentoring by indigenous elders, and developing leadership in youth. *


PERKS: 

Donate $65 and you will receive an autographed copy of 'Exiled in Paradise'.  In this half memoir, half history lesson, Smith documents his seven-day evacuation from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The people he encounters and the stories he hears and recounts testify to the deeply rooted legacy of racism in America from the cotton field to the Convention Center.


Donate $100 and recieve a beaded Turtle Island Solidarity pin by Indigenous Artist Emma Rain.