Film screening projection on National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, D.C.
Manoomin
Zizania palustris
Right now in Minnesota, Canadian oil pipeline company Enbridge, is illegally building the Line 3 pipeline on sovereign Native American land.
The US Army Corps of Engineers has determined that there is a 100% chance that the pipeline will spill. However, they have approved the project regardless. And as predicted, the pipeline has already spilled during construction and has leaked toxic drilling fluids.
If this pipeline continues to spill crude tar sand oil into the land and water it will destroy, among other things, the highly valued native wild rice (manoomin).
Manoomin is an important food for the Ojibwe Anishinaabe people. For countless centuries, every fall the Ojibwe people have been foraging for wild rice in the many lakes Minnesota has to offer. Manoomin is part of their origin story, it is one of the reasons why they migrated from the East Coast to the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Art by Christi Belcourt
Full Interview Audio
Art by Jan Burger
Sound Track
National Premiere
Please join us on zoom for the national online premier of Food that Grows on Water, a short film illustrating how Line 3 will affect manoomin and Ojibwe livelihood.
The documentary follows Water Protectors from White Earth & Extinction Rebellion – Dawn Goodwin, Stan Alexander, Jesse Barrientez, Jill Ferguson, and Presleigh Hayashida – and features Amy Athene’s original song sacred water.
Enbridge is working on a repeat performance at Line 5, complete with violations to treaties, manoomin and water, habitable climate and endangered species. We will gather to watch the premier, hear from frontline speakers, and take online actions together to #RejectLine5 and #ShutDownLine5.
Confirmed speakers:
* Gabe Cowan (director), Extinction Rebellion DC
* Dawn Goodwin (featured), White Earth, Rise Coalition
* Jill Ferguson (featured), Peace Action WI, #BadassGrandma, #Wisconsin7
* Philomena Kebec, Bad River harvester and water protector
* Edith Leoso, Bad River elder, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer
* Jannan Cornstalk, Paddle Out Pipe Out annual event, Straits of Mackinac
Co-sponsors:
Extinction Rebellion DC, Honor the Earth, Rise Coalition, 350 Madison, Sierra Club Wisconsin, Madison People’s Green New Deal, Peace Action Wisconsin, MN350, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network International, Shut Down DC
March 15, 2022
