A group of Native American women plan to circle each of the Great Lakes on foot to draw attention to environmental problems in the watershed. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Karen Kelly reports:
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A group of Native American women plan to circle each of the Great
Lakes on foot to draw attention to environmental problems in the
watershed. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Karen Kelly reports:
Traditionally, women in the Anishinabe tribe were the protectors
of water. They carried it and ensured its cleanliness for the rest of the
tribe.
This spring, a group of native women in Thunder Bay, Ontario are
renewing that tradition.
Over the next few years, they plan to walk around each lake,
carrying a bucket of water, to express their concern about
pollution and water diversion.
43-year-old Tecla Nehgonigeeshick says they worry that the
clean water her tribe has depended on is disappearing.
“It is a concern that something that was once free and clean
and natural, it has to be a commodity now.”
The Women’s Water Walk will begin in Bad River, Wisconsin on April
18th on the shores of Lake Superior.
Supporters are invited to join them during the two-month journey.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I’m Karen Kelly.