3rd Annual Protect the Earth Great Lakes Community Gathering, 2010
This great green event is over now!
| Date: |
Fri July 30 2010
to
Sun August 1 2010
Friday - Sunday |
| Where: |
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College & other venue
111 Beartown Road
Baraga
Michigan, 49908 [ Map it!] |
Event Type: |
Other(see description) |
| Web Site: |
http://standfortheland.com/ |
Winona LaDuke: Featured Guest Speaker at Protect the Earth...
Join us for Protect the Earth, July 30 through August 1st to hear Winona speak right here in the UP!
Friday, July 30:
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, Baraga, MI
1pm Workshop on the National Historic Preservation Act
2:30pm Student Presentations
5pm Opening Community Potluck Dinner
6pm Featured Guests: Joanne Shenandoah & Winona LaDuke
7pm Film Screening of Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
Saturday, July 31:
Ojibwa Powwow Grounds, Baraga, MI
8:30am Welcome & Four Thunders Drum
9am Opening Prayer & Remarks
9:30am Keynote Speech by~ Winona LaDuke
10am Environmental Issues Facing the Great Lakes Region
Featuring Lee Sprague (Climate Change Adaptation Strategies), Jeff Gibbs (Biomass) & Kathy Berry & Zak Nicholls (Chemical Valley in Aamjiwnaang First Nation)
12pm Lunch (on your own, vendors)
1pm Presentations & Discussion on Mining in the U.P.
Featuring Al Gedicks (WI Native-Environmental Alliance), Stuart Kirsch (Indigenous Movements), Robert VanZile (Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa), Jim St. Arnold (Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission), Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, Yellow Dog Summer & the Stand for the Land
Evening Events:
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, Baraga, MI
5pm Traditional Feast
7-10pm ~Protect the Earth Concert~
Featuring Joanne Shenandoah, Bobby Bullet, Skip Jones & E
Sunday, August 1: Clowry Trail by the Yellow Dog River, MI
11am Picnic by the Yellow Dog River (bring your own)
12pm Annual Walk to Eagle Rock
1pm Speakers & Music at the Fence Line
Wild blueberry picking too!
It is a free event welcome to all walks of life:) See website, linked above for more information.
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Stand for the Land focuses on news relating to public land issues, treaty rights, and related citizen activism in the Upper Great Lakes Region. Stand for the Land will post up-to-date information regarding the peaceful protest at Eagle Rock. More at website.
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