PADDLE TO PROTECT
A 250-MILE CANOE JOURNEY TO #STOPLINE3
MISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS TO BIG SANDY LAKE
AUGUST 12 - SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
The fires lit by Standing Rock have spread to Minnesota. This August, a group of indigenous youth fighting the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline will undertake a 250-mile canoe journey across northern Minnesota to stand for the cleanest lakes, the manoomin (wild rice) beds and the 1855 treaty territories of the Ojibwe people.
We will start where the new Line 3 would cross the headwaters of the great Mississippi River, and travel a traditional canoe route to Big Sandy Lake, where hundreds of Ojibwe were starved to death by the US government in 1850, and where Line 3 would cross the Mississippi again.
We paddle for our grandmothers. We paddle for the grandchildren yet to come. We paddle for our rice, for our berries, and for our medicines. We paddle for our relatives who cannot speak for themselves.
Join
us at the headwaters of the Mississippi in the Itasca State Park on
August 12 to send off the boats with ceremony.
All indigenous youth are invited to join our paddle! We are also
seeking supporters to help with events, collect donations, and drive
support vehicles!
All funds raised will be used for supplies and trasportation to
bring together youth from all over Turtle Island.
DONATION WISHLIST
canoes/canoe trailer/paddles/life jackets
tents/sleeping
bags/pads
truck
axes/saws/pocket knives
headlamps
CONTACT
Youth Coordinator:
Eryn Wise - eryn@honorearth.org
Volunteer Coordinator:
Jaida Grey Eagle - jaidagreyeagle@gmail.com
Supply Coordinator:
Kat Eng - kat@honorearth.org
Learn more at StopLine3.org/paddletoprotect
