[IPSM] Media Alert: Saskatchewan Day of Action, September 28

[willowtree at mts.net]

FYI...


    Media Alert: Saskatchewan Day of Action, September 28

http://intercontinentalcry.org/media-alert-saskatchewan-day-of-action-september-28/

Information is scarce, but there’s apparently a day of action in 
Saskatchewan tomorrow, September 28, 2008, directed at two oil pipeline 
sites held by the Calgary-based Enbridge corporation.

According to a video posted on seven hours ago, the action is backed by 
“The First Nations United Front”, a collective of Indigenous nations 
from the territories of Treaty One, Treaty Two, Treaty Four, Treaty Six, 
Treaty Eight, and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (FSIN) along 
with the Five Hills Quappelle Tribal Council, Touchwood Agency Tribal 
Council, the Yorkton Tribal Council, the Prince Albert Grand Council, 
and the Southeast Tribal Council.

The narrator of the video states:

    “On September, 16th, 17th, and 22nd — in three resolutions of the
    collective chiefs [above mentioned] — it was confirmed that a new
    era of first nations relations with the Crown must begin concerning
    the natural resources of the land, and that this must be done
    through any and all necessary and appropriate steps and action
    against industry and the federal and provincial governments.

    “The duty to consult and accommodate is the fiduciary responsibility
    of the Crown, and therefore it must be recognized as a priority. The
    Enbridge corporation has constructed pipelines which run through
    traditional and/or occupancy lands.

    “The days of billion dollar deals passing first nations by, while
    funding shortfalls cause division and discord are soon to become a
    thing of the past.

    It has been recognized by the first nations political establishment
    that the imposition of the natural resources transfer agreement of
    1930 is the cornerstone of Canada’s refusal to fully engage in its
    fiduciary obligation to first nations.

    The resolutions of the aforementioned treaty territories supported
    by the numerous tribal councils of Saskatchewan and the FSIN confirm
    that a concerted effort must and will take place in order to protect
    the sovereign and inherent rights of first nations and to protect
    treaty and aboriginal rights as entrenched into the canadian
    constitution.

    Therefore, to assert the powerful ties that first nations have to
    the land, days of action have been coordinated to take place in the
    location of two enbridge pieline projects in both southern and
    northern Saskatchewan on Sunday, September 28, 2008.”


*Watch the video at:* http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OxDBCCYcQL0