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Webinar: Pathways to Indigenous Health - Why some trees keep their leaves:

29 Jul 2024

You may have the leaves of the oak, and the butternut, and the willow, but leave those leaves to the spruce, the white pine, and the cedar, who have taken care of that little bineshiinh with the broken wing. [...] And so, you see a connection between housing and subsistence that occurs in that part of the story where the oak becomes concerned that if the oak is to house the bineshiinh, the oak tree would also have a responsibility – a correlating duty, if you would – to feed that little bineshiinh, and recognizes that they're already feeding many of the squirrels and concerned about their ability to bring a. [...] And so, the Court of Appeals addressed the constitutionality of the – and here they're talking about Mille Lacs constitution, not the US – but the Court of Appeals addressed the constitutionality of the Band's Exclusion and Removal Ordinance as it applies to a Band member under the Band and the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe’s constitution, as well as whether the Ordinance was valid under the Indian Civ. [...] So, the court remanded the matter back to the lower court to stay the removal petition and the court emphasized then the importance of kinship and community relationships, stating, “It could certainly impair a Band member’s right to exercise his religion if he is desirous of learning the traditional ways of the Anishinaabek and his access to the patrimony necessary for practicing these ways, was d. [...] So, in some ways the North Wind is the one that is causing hardship, is producing harm, and yet we also understand the need of the North Wind, in terms of those kinds of cycles of life change that occur, or seasonal change, right? And so, this idea of the good person, like the good and the bad, or the villain and the victim, don't work, right? And I think that in many ways, it's that kind of binar.

Authors

Teri Delaney

Related Organizations

University of Minnesota
Pages
24
Published in
Canada

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