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#OnionLake #CreeNation to proceed with its legal challenge of #Alberta sovereignty act

By Lisa Johnson The Canadian Press, May 15, 2025

EDMONTON - "Alberta’s bill lowering the bar for a separation referendum has spurred a #FirstNation to push ahead with a legal challenge against the premier’s flagship sovereignty act.

"Danielle Smith has said her Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act is needed to push back on what the province believes is unconstitutional federal encroachment into provincial jurisdiction.

"But Onion Lake Cree Nation Chief #HenryLewis said that law has always been about undermining federal authority and asserting provincial control, which goes against his community’s #Treaty6 relationship with the Crown.

" 'I want to respectfully remind the premier that this land that we stand on today is #Treaty land and is not yours to take or make sweeping decisions about,” he said at a news conference in Edmonton on Thursday.

"He announced the legal challenge is moving forward a day after Smith’s government passed a bill significantly lowering the threshold for citizens to prompt a referendum, including one on seceding from Canada."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/qPDjh

#CanPol #CanadaPol #RespectTheTreaties #LandBack #Alberta #FirstNations #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #Albertans #Mining #CorporateColonialism

DoomsdaysCW 56m ago

Seems like #Oiligarchy has won the hearts of #Albertan #MAGA-types. If anything, there should be #LandBack to #Alberta's #FirstNations, and colonizer descendants will just have to deal with it!!!

Albertans Could Soon Vote on Whether to Separate From Canada. Here’s What to Know

by Chantelle Lee, May 5, 2026

"Many Albertans have slammed the federal Liberal government for blocking #pipeline projects and canceling oil and gas projects. The province’s economy is largely driven by its #OilAndGas extraction, as well as #mining and #quarrying."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/KxxFz

#Colonialism #CorporateColonialism #CanPol #CanadaPol #NoMining #ExtractiveIndustries #BigOilAndGas #FuckColonialism

Albertans Could Soon Vote on Whether to Separate From Canada. Here’s What to Know

The Alberta separatist movement dates back decades, but has gained momentum in the past year.

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Global Underground 90s #Stoned #Spider #Radio I Play Whatever TF I Want But Mostly 80s 90s #Techno #WitchHouse https://www.twitch.tv/thestonedspider
#AOCFORPRESIDENT
#landback
#Native
#ndncollective
#NativeMastodon
#IndigenousMastodon
#Indigedon
#NativeTwitter
#Indigenous
#IndigenousPeople
#indigisky
#IndigenousTwitter
#FirstNations
#NOKINGS
#makeamericanativeagain
#streamer
#twitch
#music
#IMPEACH
#ARREST
#JAIL
#GOPFASCISTS
#FIGHTFASCISM
#SAVEOURDEMOCRACY

TheStonedSpider - Twitch

Global Underground 90s #Stoned #Spider #Radio I Play Whatever TF I Want But Mostly 80s 90s Techno Metal WitchHouse #AOCFORPRESIDENT #vanlife

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silence7 1d ago

Home on the Range No More: Trump Wants Bison Gone

https://slrpnk.net/post/37384180

Home on the Range No More: Trump Wants Bison Gone - SLRPNK

> The Trump administration is evicting bison herds from federal grasslands in Montana, siding with ranchers and Republican leaders over environmentalists and tribal leaders.

Heil Seitan 2d ago

RE: https://veganism.social/@Wilson6923/116252539841925280

#Communism won… now what? Chicken butt. No butt seriously… stop it, I cant. Anyways follow along as Danny finds out what a future without Capital looks like. #Vegan #LandBack #PeoplesLiberation #AnimalLiberation #MarxismLeninism #Booksky #Books #Read #Revolution

††‡† †нэ$†øиэd$pîdэя ††‡†2d ago

I often get banned for telling the truth.
#AOCFORPRESIDENT
#landback
#Native
#ndncollective
#NativeMastodon
#IndigenousMastodon
#Indigedon
#NativeTwitter
#Indigenous
#IndigenousPeople
#indigisky
#IndigenousTwitter
#FirstNations
#NOKINGS
#makeamericanativeagain
#IMPEACH
#ARREST
#JAIL
#GOPFASCISTS
#FIGHTFASCISM
#SAVEOURDEMOCRACY

stabby_cicada 3d ago

How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past - Inside Climate News

https://slrpnk.net/post/37327486

How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past - Inside Climate News - SLRPNK

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silence7 3d ago

Why this tribe [Stillaguamish] is buying up hundreds of acres of farmland — and flooding it

https://slrpnk.net/post/37326708

Why this tribe [Stillaguamish] is buying up hundreds of acres of farmland — and flooding it - SLRPNK

> Tidal marshes are crucial nurseries for young Chinook salmon and a focal point for efforts to bring these fish back from the brink of extinction. The Stillaguamish Tribe has been buying riverfront land in its traditional territory and removing levees to turn farmland into wetland with the hope of restoring Chinook.

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MiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸3d ago

Lakota youth chained themselves to drilling equipment and created an altar at the sacred site of Pe'Sla on Thursday, to protest mining companies' exploitation of their tribal lands.

#USPolitics #LandBack #ClimateCatastrophe

Steve 3d ago

Nine Native American tribes sue US Forest Service over approval of drilling at sacred site

https://slrpnk.net/post/37310268

Nine Native American tribes sue US Forest Service over approval of drilling at sacred site - SLRPNK

Nine Native American tribes have filed a lawsuit against the US Forest Service over its approval of a graphite drilling project near Pe’ Sla, a site in the Black Hills that holds cultural and spiritual significance for Native Americans. The Oglala Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Santee Sioux Tribe, Sisseton-Whapeton Oyate, Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Yankton Sioux Tribe — also known as the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires of the Great Sioux Nation — are all plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The lawsuit challenges the decision to allow Rapid City-based Pete Lien and Sons to allow exploratory drilling for a potential graphite mine. Graphite is used in electric vehicle batteries, lubricants, pencils and other products. The drilling is planned near Pe’ Sla, also known as Reynolds Prairie, which is owned and used by the tribes for prayer, ceremony and cultural activities. The lawsuit says the US Forest Service improperly used a process known as a “categorical exclusion” to bypass environmental and cultural reviews. The tribes never ceded the land in the Black Hills to the United States, Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a press release. “The Black Hills remain the spiritual center of the Great Sioux Nation, and they are not for sale, lease, or exploitation by energy companies,” Star Comes Out said. “This lawsuit represents a united tribal response to protect a sacred site from those who continue to desecrate our ancestral lands.” The tribes argue the drilling activities “will harm the land and natural and cultural resources in the Black Hills,” and will especially harm Pe’ Sla by “disrupting and interfering with sacred ceremonies and practice there,” according to the press release. The lawsuit alleges a categorical exclusion was improper because the project includes drilling, road work and other activity near Pe’ Sla, which goes beyond what a categorical exclusion allows. The plaintiffs also argue that Pe’ Sla’s religious and cultural importance should have triggered a fuller review, rather than the abbreviated process.