Headaches, Heartache, and Hydrofracking: Haudenosaunee visit Hedgehog Lane in Bradford, PA
In August of 2009, the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force and the Onondaga Nation’s environmental team visited Bradford, PA to talk to neighbors there and witness first-hand the impacts of hydrofracking.
I was getting a headache. We’d only been there for ten minutes, but the periodic strong whiffs of propane gas were already getting to me. “It was worse two days ago,” Yvonne Shafer explained to me, “the whole outside and inside of the house would smell like that, about every half hour. At its worst, I spent two hours in the basement because it was the only place I could breathe.”
Haudenosaunee Statement on Hydrofracking
The Haudenosaunee have a unique spiritual, cultural, and historic relationship with the land, which is embodied in Gayananshogowa, the Great Law of Peace. This relationship goes far beyond federal and state legal concepts of ownership, possession, or other legal rights. The Haudenosaunee are one with the land and all that depends on the land, and consider ourselves part of it. It is the duty of the Nations' leaders to work for a healing of the land, to protect it, and to pass it on to foture generations.
Statement on Hydraulic-Fracturing (March 4, 2009)
Hydraulic-Fracturing
The Haudenosaunee consist of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora Nations. The Haudenosaunee Nations and its people have a unique spiritual, cultural, and historic relationship with the land, which is embodied in Gayananshogowa, the Great Law of Peace. This relationship goes far beyond federal and state legal concepts of ownership, possession, or other legal rights. The Haudenosaunee people are one with the land and all that depends on the land, and consider themselves apart of it. It is the duty of the Nations’ leaders to work for a healing of the land, to protect it, and to pass it on to future generations.
Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion, Global Warming
Introduction
The standard practices of running the economy of the industrialized nations all over the world has caused catastrophic results to our environment such as Acid Rain, Ozone depletion, and Global Warming. These three main topics has raised an international debate on what to do about it and are we blowing things way out of concern when it comes to its impacts to the natural world and the future generations.
Global Warming Revisited
TRADITION CIRCLE OF INDIAN ELDERS AND YOUTH
Recognizing the Universal Systems of Nature that Governs the Earth
Some things bear repeating because they are well researched scientific assessments on the issues of global warming and the consequences of human ego and human behavior engineered by that ego.
In August 2000, the Traditional Circle of Elder and Youth delivered a communiqué to the religious leaders of the world hosted by the United Nations in New York. The communiqué titled “The Ice is Melting in the North” challenged world leaders to heed and address this potentially catastrophic issue. We warned world leaders that time was a major factor under the Law of Compound.