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Media Alert: Saskatchewan Day of Action, September 28

Information is scarce, but there’s apparently a day of action in Saskatchewan tomorrow, September 28, 2008, directed at two oil pipeline sites held by the Calgary-based Enbridge corporation.

Explained in this video: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OxDBCCYcQL0, posted on youtube this morning, the action is backed by “The First Nations United Front”, a collective of Indigenous nations from the territories of Treaty One, Treaty Two, Treaty Four, Treaty Six, Treaty Eight, and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (FSIN) along with the Five Hills Quappelle Tribal Council, Touchwood Agency Tribal Council, the Yorkton Tribal Council, the Prince Albert Grand Council, and the Southeast Tribal Council.

The narrator of the video states:

“On September, 16th, 17th, and 22nd — in three resolutions of the collective chiefs [above mentioned] — it was confirmed that a new era of first nations relations with the Crown must begin concerning the natural resources of the land, and that this must be done through any and all necessary and appropriate steps and action against industry and the federal and provincial governments.

“The duty to consult and accommodate is the fiduciary responsibility of the Crown, and therefore it must be recognized as a priority. The Enbridge corporation has constructed pipelines which run through traditional and/or occupancy lands.

“The days of billion dollar deals passing first nations by, while funding shortfalls cause division and discord are soon to become a thing of the past.

It has been recognized by the first nations political establishment that the imposition of the natural resources transfer agreement of 1930 is the cornerstone of Canada’s refusal to fully engage in its fiduciary obligation to first nations.

The resolutions of the aforementioned treaty territories supported by the numerous tribal councils of Saskatchewan and the FSIN confirm that a concerted effort must and will take place in order to protect the sovereign and inherent rights of first nations and to protect treaty and aboriginal rights as entrenched into the canadian constitution.

Therefore, to assert the powerful ties that first nations have to the land, days of action have been coordinated to take place in the location of two enbridge pieline projects in both southern and northern Saskatchewan on Sunday, September 28, 2008.”

The First Nations United Front: Days of Action