Solidarity Rally and Round Dance for Beaver Lake Cree Nation in Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Treaty 6 territory.

Please come out to support the Beaver Lake Cree as they brace for a courtroom fight for their Treaty rights.

Meeting in Sir Winston Churchill Square at 1:30 PM. All are welcome!

The Beaver Lake Cree Nation is going to court to compel Canada and Alberta to honour their treaty obligations to the Beaver Lake Cree and — by extension — all Nations across the country. This means taking on the toxic tar sands and rampant industrial development that takes up more than half of the territory of the Beaver Lake Cree. It means forging a new framework that evaluates new projects according to cumulative impacts on the water, forests, and animals that Indigenous Peoples were promised would be there ‘as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow’.

Let’s make a strong statement of support for the Beaver Lake Cree as they head into the courtroom!

LOCATION:
Sir Winston Churchill Square
Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Treaty 6 territory

TIME:
1:30 – 2:30 PM

SPEAKERS:
Chief Germaine Anderson
Crystal Lameman
Kihew and Kirby Buffalo
Oceanna Bellegarde

We wish to acknowledge that this event is taking place on Treaty 6 territory – the territory of Blackfoot, Cree, Dene, Nakota Sioux, Saulteaux, and Métis Nation.

Beaver Lake Cree Nation is taking on the tar sands – Canada’s fastest growing source of climate pollution. Already the largest industrial project on Earth, tar sands extraction has poisoned water, eliminated whole forests, and decimated traditional food sources for the Beaver Lake Cree people. Expanding the tar sands will mean more pipelines and tankers and game over for a stable climate.

The Beaver Lake Cree Nation is the first ever to challenge and be granted a trial on the cumulative impacts of industrial development. We are all treaty people. How then shall we live?

It’s time to join forces to protect the environment, climate, and Indigenous People’s right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent. Are you in?

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