RE:RE:hydro one and the new unofficial opposition
Native Nations are asserting land and resource rights in an increasingly vigorous and unambiguous way. Just this week, 19 November 2013, Lake Huron Regional Chief Isadore Day, Windawtegowinini, announced, "We have determined that 60 per cent of mining resources in Ontario are located on [Anishinabek Nation] traditional lands."
Chief Day called for concerted action: "First Nations must take the lead and have a say in what happens in their traditional and treaty territories. I’m calling on my fellow treaty Chiefs; it’s time to formally assemble, design and organize our interests as a treaty organization specific to issues like mining."
As I write, a conference on "Economic Sovereignty Through Energy Development" is going on at the Northern Lights Community Center in New Town, North Dakota, hosted by Missouri River Resources, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation's oil & gas development company. The CEO of the company, D. David Williams, states, "Energy development of mineral resources is the financial engine for economic development" as a sovereign nation.
Read more at https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/12/04/native-leaders-fighting-protect-our-natural-resources