Sacred Mother Earth Symposium
4/4/2019 8:09:00 AM
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Ziibiwing Cultural Center
Science & Spirituality” Climate Change • Prophecies • Water
April 20, 2019
9am - 5pm
ZIIBIWING CENTER 6650 E. Broadway Mt. Pleasant, MI
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Updates: 4/3/19
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Speakers:
Onaubinisay (Walks Above the Ground), Elder Jim Dumont, (Ojibway -Anishinabe of the Marten Clan -originally from the Shawanaga First Nation on Eastern Georgian Bay) is the Chief of the Eastern Doorway of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge. He was a professor of Native Studies at the University of Sudbury of Laurentian University for 25 years and is one
of the founders of its Native Studies Department. During his tenure, Jim created and taught courses in Tradition and Culture, Native Psychology, Native Way of Seeing, Native Education, and Issues of Indigenous Peoples in the International Context.
Autumn Peltier, (Wikwemikong Unceded Territory) is a 14-year old Water Protector and the daughter of Stephanie Peltier. She advocates for clean drinking water in First Nations communities and across Mother Earth, just like her
great-aunt the late Water Walker, Josephine Mandamin. Autumn was nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize, has addressed the UN General Assembly and met Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. She has received the Canadian Living Me to We Award in 2017 and the 2019 Water Warrior Award.
Tara Zhaabowekwe Houska
(Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe) is a tribal attorney, the National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She advocates on behalf of tribal nations at the local, state, federal and international levels on a wide range of issues impacting indigenous peoples. Tara spent six months on the frontlines in North Dakota fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and is heavily engaged in the movement to defund fossil fuels and a years-long struggle against Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline.
Peter Annin, Director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College in Wisconsin. He has served as a reporter at Newsweek, associate director of the Institute of Journalism and Natural Resources and managing director of the University of Notre Dame’s Environmental Change Initiative. He is the author of The Great Lakes Water Wars whose second edition was published in the fall of 2018. He continues to report on the Great Lakes water diversion issue.
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• Opening Ceremonies
• Keynote Speakers
• Art & Environmental Booths
• Presentations
• Hands-On Activities
• Breakfast & Lunch Provided
Free & Open to the Public
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Onaubinisay (Walks Above the Ground), Elder Jim Dumont, (Ojibway-Anishinabe of the Marten Clan - originally from the Shawanaga First Nation on Eastern Georgian Bay) is the Chief of the Eastern Doorway of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge. He was a professor of Native Studies at the University of Sudbury of Laurentian University for 25 years (1975 to 2000) and is one of the founders of its Native Studies Department. During his tenure, Jim created and taught courses in
Tradition and Culture, Native Psychology, Native Way
of Seeing, Native Education, and Issues of Indigenous Peoples in the International Context.
Tara Zhaabowekwe Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe) is a tribal attorney, the National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, and a former advisor on
Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She
advocates on behalf of tribal nations at the local, state, federal and international levels on a wide range of issues impacting indigenous peoples. Tara spent six months on
the frontlines in North Dakota fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and is heavily engaged in the movement to
defund fossil fuels and a years-long struggle against Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline.