In her coverage of the Protect the Earth Summit rally at Eagle Rock, Miriam Moeller writes:
A group of 120 anti-mining activists gathered below Eagle Rock on the Yellow Dog Plains Sunday morning, blessing the land and protesting a planned nickel and copper mine nearby.
“Since the 1600s the Ojibwe people have long lived and made their homes in the Upper Great Lakes region,” said Susan LaFernier, vice president of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, adding that in 1842 the United States government bought the land in the plains but left treaty rights to the Indian community. “These are rights that we have always had as the first people to occupy these lands, and I am certain that their intent for all people was to honor and respect this creation and not to blast and tunnel underneath this sacred rock and under a fish-filled river.”
Click the link, below, for more of Moeller’s excellent coverage of the Protect the Earth Summit rally at Eagle Rock.
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