The Minnesota Indian Gaming Association…
This is a fantastic video... but, can we all join together to defend our living environment when there are crooked and corrupt politicians in the state legislature and on tribal councils that have turned their backs on the environment? What will be the future of the Red Lake Nation be, and all of our future's be, as peat mining in the Big Bog proceeds? What will happen to this largest freshwater aquifer--- the Big Bog--- as peat mining proceeds?
I find it very interesting that none of the candidates at the Red Lake forum on the Governor's race so much as mentioned the peat mining in the Big Bog now getting underway.
Have smoke-filled casinos employing workers at poverty wages without any rights as mobsters who own the slot machines run off with all the profits from these casinos become more important than protecting our living environment and the health and well-being of human beings and air, water, land, plants and animals?
Floyd Jourdain and the Red Lake Nation Tribal Council line their pockets just like the other politicians in Minnesota who serve the interests of big-business.
The Red Lake Nation Tribal Council passed a resolution against peat mining in the Big Bog and stuffed the resolution in a filing cabinet hidden from the people.
Roger Jourdain said about peat mining and the Big Bog:
"This freshwater aquifer is the life-blood of the Red Lake Nation."
Why is Floyd Jourdain and the Red Lake Nation Tribal Council sitting in silence doing nothing as this peat mining proceeds... once these people get done draining the Big Bog for the peat, there will be no more Upper or Lower Red Lake.
Why don't you ask Floyd Jourdain to take you out to the peat mining site to produce a movie with him explaining why he is allowing this peat mining to continue?
Ask your State Representative Brita Sailer why she has refused to join the fight to stop this peat mining?
Ask your State Senator Rod Skoe why he does nothing?
The Minnesota Indian Gaming Association has funded the campaigns of these candidates who come looking for campaign contributions from the casinos but then turn their backs on the real problems of the people and OUR living environment.
Here are the facts:
Peat mining in the Big Bog:
http://pineislandstateforest.blogspot.com/
The Red Lake fishery:
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