Indigenous Women's Environmental Network

Posted By the First Nations Environmental Network.

indnsc@web.apc.org

The Indigenous Women's Environmental Network is an ad-hoc group of Aboriginal Women in Saskatchewan who are concerned about environmental issues and the impact that megaprojects have on Indigenous people. We have been working for several years on issues such as uranium mining, clearcutting, and damming of river systems. We are also concerned with other issues that impact on the survival of Aboriginal people in Saskatchewan.

The issue that is foremost in our minds at this point, and the main drive force behind wanting to organise Indigenous women in Saskatchewan, is the new threat to all our lives in the form of the Meadow Lake Tribal Council's proposal to build a permanent high level nuclear waste repository in northern Saskatchewan.

Objectives

• To educate ourselves and the public on any developments exploiting natural resources that cause damage to the environment.
• To research and promote alternatives to current destructive developments.
• To protect the natural world from destructive developments by whatever means necessary.
• To promote the restoration of a balance between human beings and the Earth.
• To organize Indigenous Women in Saskatchewan to ensure the survival of future generations.
• To work in cooperation with any individual, group, organization or government, worldwide, with similar goals on issues that affect the survival of future generations.
• To encourage First Nations and Aboriginal governments to seek alternatives to current destructive economic development schemes.
• To support and promote the use of renewable alternative energy technologies.
• To educate our children on our natural, spiritual laws and values which ensure the survival of future generations.
• To promote respect and responsibility of the Earth to all people.
• To respond to calls for help from any individual, group, organization or government on issues that affect the survival of future generations.
• To lobby and pressure governments for compensation of victims of destructive developments.

For more information or to establish contact with the Indigenous Women's Environmental Network, please contact Adele Ratt at the phone number (306) 763-1975 or write to her at:

1575 17th Street West
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
S6V 3Z5