THIS EARTH IS PRECIOUS.
TO HARM THE EARTH IS TO HEAP CONTEMPT ON ITS CREATOR.
....Chief Sealth (Seattle) 1855

"The accumulation of wealth at the expense of ravaging the Earth is not justifiable"...Robert Harrington

"Listen to what your heart tells you"...S.L.

"If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it." ....Chief Sitting Bull

"No Additions, No Subtractions, No Divisions; One Heart, One Mind".......Grandfather Wallace Black Elk, 2003

"The weapon of choice today is solidarity and unity through communications." -Sulian Stone Eagle Herney

"The Greatness Of A Nation And Its Moral Progress Can Be Judged By The Way Its Animals Are Treated." ...Ghandi

"Respect for the land and respect for the animals is central to our culture. We have always believed that a just cause must be pursued through just means"....Peter Penashue, President of Innu Nation

"Only if one loves this Earth with unbending passion
can one release one's sadness...This lovely being, which is alive to its' last recesses, and understands every feeling,soothed me, it cured me of my pains,
and finally, when I had fully understood my love for it,it taught me freedom."
..Carlos Casteneda (taught by Yaqui Native Elder Don Mateus) from "Tales of Power"

"I say, my friends, regardless of where we stand, we need to be strong because it is our responsibility to make our world an ecogically grounded environment and also an economically secure place for our grandchildren. Corruption needs to be stopped regardless of where it is. That is our highest obligation....biodiversity and Indigenous People."
Steve Fobister, Grassy Narrows First Nation

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(Note: FNEN's website has been cited as one of the six superlative sources of information about Indigenous People's Environmental issues...selected by independent specialists and scholars at Fields of Knowledge on People's Stewardship of the Natural World, it is referred to students and librarians and made widely available to the public)

The First Nations
Environmental Network
is a national organization of individuals, non-profit groups and Nations who are actively working on environmental issues.

Many of our members have worked on environmental issues for over 20 years, people likeand Guujaw, now President of the Haida Nation. Elders such as Joe Iron  who lead the longest blockade in the history of North America to prevent clear cutting in his territory in Northern Saskatchewan and Lorraine Sinclair who helped found FNEN in the 80's are some of the special people who formed this network . It includes the Innu Nation, the Barriere Lake people, the Chief of the Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia who has fought the fouling of the waters and land by Pulp Mills in his territory and people like Larry House from the Cree Nation who took a canoe down the Hudson River to highlight their concerns about Quebec Hydro and managed to stop the damming of the Great Whale River.
There are many more who have changed the course of history here in Canada and who are continuing to do so....out of a heartfelt need to take action to stop the further destruction of our Mother Earth and to ensure a safe and healthy, sustaining future for us all.
With the guidance of Elders and Spiritual Leaders plus our connection to Mother Earth, we empower knowledge to create change for a better life
For All Our Relations.

OUR VISION:

- We are working to protect and restore the balance of all life.

- Through traditional Indigenous values and the path of our ancestors, we encourage the work of protecting, defending and healing Mother Earth.

- We desire and need to link grassroots Indigenous people nationally and internationally to support each other on environmental struggles and concerns.

- We are obligated to leave footprints for our children to follow by striving to live our life with traditional values.

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REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE AND
THE FORESTS OF THE EARTH:

See Information on "What's Happening" re Global Warming
Deforestation needs to stop in order to help reverse present trends

"We the trees are like stitching in fabric, we hold the parts that clothe the Earth together. If you take too many of us away, the fabric will unravel and become undone"
...A Vision by Small Buffalo, Tatanka Hunkesi, July 25th, 2000

"Great forests must flourish and man must see to this if he wishes to continue to live on this planet. The knowledge of this necessity must become part of his consciousness, as much accepted as his need for water in order to live. He needs trees just as much, the two are interlinked. Trees are the skin of the Earth, a skin not only covers and protects, but also passes through it the forces of life." ...D. MacLean

"I am a native of Borneo and we speak differ as we drink water from difference river, and we believe differ as we see the sun rinse in our direction, the forest is not belong to us, but we are belong to the forest."...Ramlee B. Eli

"All things are connected, whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth" ...Chief Seattle 1855

For a Comprehensive Portal to Indigenous People in Canada:
www.firstnationsseeker.ca