Archive for October 2023
Niibi Center holds healing space for Water Protectors at Water is Life Festival
Labor Day weekend was bustling in Petoskey, MI with the annual Water is Life festival on Saturday, as well an art build on Sunday and the Mackinaw Bridge Walk event on Monday that attracted around 20,000 people. Members of the Niibi Center’s staff, as well as a few of our collaborators, joined in on the festivities for the second year by hosting an informal Water Protector healing circle at the festival and supporting the art build and Bridge Walk.
Read MoreVIDEO: Kekek Stark Keynote – First Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference
Kekek Stark is Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, member of the
Bizhiw (Lynx) Clan and a practitioner of Indigenous law. Kekek is an Associate Professor at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana where he serves as the Co-Director of the Indian Law Program, the Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic, and the American Indian Governance and Policy Institute. This is Kekek’s keynote address from the first annual Anishinaabe Law conference on White Earth in June, 2023.
VIDEO: Tom Goldtooth Keynote – First Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference
Tom Goldtooth is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, working for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, rights of Mother Earth and for environmental and economic justice. Tom has networked with Indigenous Peoples and spiritual/religious leaders globally helping humanity to re-evaluate their relationship to the sacredness of Grandmother Earth. His moving address at the first annual Anishinaabe Law Conference on White Earth in June 2023 touches on many issues of Indigenous sovereignty, both locally and globally.
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