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The Totem Pole Journey: Treaty One Territory
August 23, 2016 - 4:01pm
When - Sep 5 at 3:30 PM
Where - The Forks - 1 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg
Then - Walk to Thunderbird House
Calling all staff carriers and drums!!
Since 2013, three totem poles have made their journeys from the Coastal Salish peoples over and through the mountains to carry a message of alliance and awakening. Under the guidance of Elders and ceremony, beginning September 5, 2016, the fourth Totem Pole, will make its way down Main street in Winnipeg before reaching its final destination on sacred lands at the Turtle Lodge in Treaty One Territory on September 6th.
The Totem Pole Journey is an opportunity for all peoples to align in the name of our shared responsibilities to nimama akii (Mother Earth). During its presence in Treaty One Territory, the Assembly of Manitoba Chief (AMC) is hopeful that people who believe in a future of clean sustainable energy and an end to reliance on fossil fuel exploitation will join us in the streets and walk with us as we guide the totem pole from The Forks, to the Thunderbird House, and eventually to the Turtle Lodge located in Sagkeeng First Nation.
To this end, the AMC, along with our friends in the community, will host a large public event in Winnipeg on September 5th to honor the arrival of the Totem Pole Journey. The celebration will focus on the growth of the alliance, among nations and with nimama akii herself, towards clean energy and will celebrate the awareness and growing consciousness that the Totem Pole Journey is building across Turtle Island.
The following day on September 6th all are invited to welcome to Totem Pole Journey to its final destination at the Turtle Lodge. The Turtle Lodge will host an exchange of gifts and ceremony including the raising of the totem pole and Ogichi Tibakonigaywin (The Great Binding Law). All are encouraged to bring a contribution to the gift exchange to honor the spirit of The Totem Pole Journey and the important alliance our Coast Salish relatives have brought here to Manitou Abi.
The 22 foot totem pole
The design of the totem pole was gifted through ceremony and visions to head carver, Jewell James, a renowned carver from the Lummi nation. The twenty-two foot totem pole will begin its journey in the state of Washington on August 18, 2016. In the following weeks the totem pole will visit British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Alberta, North Dakota, and South Dakota before being welcomed in Manitoba on September 5th.
About the Turtle Lodge
The Turtle Lodge is a place for sharing our universal and ancient knowledge, for reconnecting ourselves to the Earth and Nature, and also, a place for sharing among people of all races and nations.
The Turtle Lodge offers Children, Youth, Adults and Elders the opportunity to come together in a sacred environment for: Traditional teachings, Ceremony, Healing, and the sharing of the perspectives of the Original Peoples of Turtle Island on how to have a good and peaceful life.
Our Vision
The Turtle Lodge is founded upon spiritual, land-based teachings that bring balance to life. It has been built for our children ~ the center of our lives. Our fundamental goal is Mino-Pi-Mati-Si-Win – A Good and Peaceful Way of Life. The Turtle Lodge is based on the Seven Sacred Laws and the Eight Paths of the Medicine Wheel, the ancient universal values of the Anishnabe People of Turtle Island (North America).
Who We Are
The Turtle Lodge has been operating for the most part thanks to a number of volunteers and community leaders who all work together to bring forward our goals of promoting Original Peoples’ knowledge, positive identity, self-esteem and self-sufficiency.
Interesting stuff! I like the walk of the totem pole from its area of origin to Treaty One territory. (What should we call no-treaty west coast areas - Treaty Zero?)
Treaty Free.
..here's a look at the totem pole on aug 23rd in vancouver.
..found a couple more pics
..video
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"Riding With Thunder" by Native Flute Ensemble
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Dispatches from the Journey
Welcome to the Dispatches page!
It is in this sacred space that we post notes, photos, audio and video files from the Totem Pole Journeys. The 2016 Totem Pole Journey is being planned! Dispatches while the crew is on the road are posted here.
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Below are the links to each of the Blessing Stops along the Journey.
2016 Bellingham, WA Blessing Stop
2016 Tsleil Waututh First Nation – Vancouver, British Columbia
2016 Seattle, WA Blessing Stop
2016 Longview, WA Blessing Stop
2016 Sandpoint, ID Blessing Stop
2016 Missoula, MT Blessing Stop
2016 Standing Rock Indian Reservation, S.D. Blessing Stop
Eagle Butte, Cheyenne River Indian Reservation South Dakota, U.S.
2016 Winnipeg, Manitoba Province, Canada, Where the Two Rivers Meet
We are excited to confirm Winona LaDuke as a speaker on the Totem Pole Journey speakers panel!
Winona, a graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a two time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party.
Watch the recent news interview with Winona:
http://www.democracynow.org/…/native_activist_winona_laduke…
..just before coming to winnipeg the totem will be at standing rock where a pitched battle has been going on. this will be my last post for a week as i will be headed out to a cabin with family and friends.
Indigenous people from Winnipeg join Standing Rock protest camp in North Dakota
For the last few weeks, a few thousand Indigenous protesters from across North America have been gathering at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation in North Dakota, including First Nations people from Manitoba.
They are gathering to protest a multibillion-dollar pipeline project by Dakota Access. Protesters are concerned the pipeline will affect the reservation's drinking water, and disturb their traditional sacred territories....
..turns out i have limited internet here at the lake of the woods.
Art Build & Movement Art Skills Training - Sacred #TotemPole2016 Journey
What: Sacred #TotemPole2016Journey Art Build & 350.org Movement Art Skills Training - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty #1.
When: Movement Arts Training Saturday, September 3rd and Sunday, September 4th 2016 from 5 PM to 7 PM
*Art space open daily to volunteers for banner painting and puppet making, September 1st to 4th from 10 am to 12 am
Where: 350.org/MEJC Art Space - 415 Mulvey Ave E (south Osborne) - CJ Storage - Blue Building, enter thru the loading dock doors.
350.org's North American Arts Organizer, David Solnit from Los Angeles, California will be here in Winnipeg to facilitate a ‘Movement Art Skills Workshop’ in collaboration with local host organizations, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, Turtle Lodge, Divest UW, Red Rising Magazine and Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition. David will be conducting two history of Art in the movement organizing workshops and also all day puppet making, banner painting, silk screen painting, movement prop building and so much more!!!!!!
Totem Pole Journey Panel Discussion
Thunderbird House, Winnipeg
Monday September 5, 2016 @ 5-8 pm
Join these Indigenous Speakers as we welcome the Totem Pole on the final leg of its journey!
Speakers include: Winona LaDuke, Rueben George, Serge Simon, Dave Courchene, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Phil Lane Jr., Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie
Totem carries unifying spirit into protest camp
Ceremony, aromatic sage and drumming song welcomed the eight tribes of Washington State into the encampment of Native Americans supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Tribes with new and unusual names — Yakama Nation, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Lummi Nation, Puyallup Tribe, Nisqually Indian Tribe, The Suquamish Tribe, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, and Hoh Tribe — entered the camp Tuesday afternoon accompanied by a 22-foot red cedar totem pole in beautifully painted Plains' animals and symbols.
These were the latest of now dozens, at least 70 it’s thought, to join the protest encampment that sprawls in tents and tepees across a wide meadow not far from the pipeline construction site. All is quiet there while a court battle plays out....
West coast First Nations bring solidarity to Standing Rock pipeline battle
As part of an 8,000-km show of solidarity, a west coast totem pole has arrived in North Dakota, where Indigenous people are leading the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
“We were greeted with tears, hugs and warrior calls by the thousands of people who have been standing strong for our lands at this protection camp,” said Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in southwest British Columbia. He travelled, together with dozens of Indigenous leaders from the northwest United States, to the site of the foremost environmental battle in that country today.
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The House of Tears Carvers of the Lummi Nation, whose ancestral lands are located in Washington state, have created totem poles for various communities resisting the impacts of fossil fuel megaprojects on their territories. This year’s 7-metre-long totem pole is destined for Winnipeg, Manitoba, to support opposition to the proposed Energy East tar sands pipeline.
In Standing Rock’s spirit camp
On the long journey across the western half of North America, a stop in the Dakotas was a must, especially as the area has become a flashpoint in the fight against the expansion of fossil fuel exports. An estimated 1,500 Indigenous people from over 100 tribes across the United States have converged on North Dakota to join a spirit camp set up by the Standing Rock Sioux, who have, at least for now, halted construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
“We had to go around the reservation to the other side in order to get in, because local police, on orders of the governor, have a blockade and they’re not letting anyone into the encampment,” said Jewell James, a master carver of the Lummi Nation, who is travelling with the 7-metre totem pole he created....
..the totem arrived in wpg yesterday at the forks. the forks is where the assiniboine and red rivers meet. an alliance was struck between 1st nations by way of a pipe ceremony. this alliance revolves around renewables, climate and stopping pipelines as well as protecting water and the future for children. the pipes, 3 i believe in total, are held by the women in different places. one was held in kenora and the others elsewhere. the ceremony does not allow pics to be taken so i post no photos of it and not all those involved in the ceremony are pictured below.
from right to left..Manitoba Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, Melina Laboucan-Massimo a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation from the tarsands, Jewell James master carver and leader from the Lummi Nation in the state of washington, sorry next person unknown, Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (finaly got to meet and talk with him) and lastly the brother of Jewel James also a leader.
..more pics to come.
..after the pipe ceremony we walked to main st. and our destination was thunderbird house.
..along with us came the totem. and the drummers. at portage and main we stopped and formed circles within circles.
..then continued on until we reached thunderbird house.
..inside thunderbird house we listened to speakers and drummers.
..some shots of the totem
white buffalo
The Totem Pole has arrived in Sagkeeng First Nation at the Turtle Lodge
..where a spot had been readied for it. couldn't make it there today but yesterday was awesome.
Indigenous leaders welcome sacred totem pole after violent North Dakota protests
Indigenous leaders and activists were among thousands of people who walked a sacred totem pole through the streets of downtown Winnipeg to Oodena Circle Monday as part of a peaceful anti-pipeline protest.
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'Symbol of resistance'
Nepinak said receiving the totem pole from the Lummi Nation was an honour and comes at an important time in the conversation surrounding Indigenous Peoples' rights and the proposed Energy East pipeline, which would run through the south of Manitoba.
"It's been said by many different groups that the totem pole is a symbol of resistance. Standing in the path of Energy East, that's one part of the discussion," he said.
Nepinak said original peoples from all over North America are forming alliances against fossil fuel companies and taking a stand against unjust resource development.
"This is a very significant moment in our modern society when the original nations of people from all over Turtle Island are forming alliance. and we're taking a stand against of further exploration of the ancestral homelands," Nepinak said....
Totem pole journey reveals common ground between Indigenous resource battles
A totem pole was designed to represent the solidarity between Indigenous nations opposed to the creation of crude oil pipelines in North America.
On its two-week journey from its original home in Washington State the pole made its way through British Columbia, Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas where thousands are still camped out at a massive pipeline protest.
..the totem is up