March 10, 2014 by Leslie Amsterdam Almost 200 hundred men, women and children laid down on the ice of Lake Superior Sunday to spell the message “SOS Protect Our Water” with their bodies. The display, labeled “Bodies on the Ice”, was photographed aerially before the group stood up and joined hands, forming a large circle. […]
Tag Archives: LCO Harvest and Education Camp
Iron County Insurance Won’t Cover LCO Eviction
December 13, 2013 by Barbara With and Rebecca Kemble The Iron County Board has canceled its discussion of the recommended eviction of the Lac Courte Oreilles Harvest and Education Learning Project from Moore Park Road at the upcoming December 17, 2013 meeting. According to HELP spokesperson Paul DeMain, the item was removed from the agenda […]
Dispatch from the Penokee Hills
December 2, 2013 by Mel Gasper Booshoo, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Mel Gasper. I’m a Lac Courte Oreilles tribal member from Hayward, Wisconsin. I’m the administrator for the HELP project (Harvest Educational Learning Project) located on Moore Park Road near Mellen, Wisconsin. I have been here in the Penokee Mountain […]
Singers on the Hill
July 19, 2013 By Rob Ganson They forsake the concrete cauldrons to sing… to bring the sky tidings of open eyes, hearts alive with the meat beat, the songs of life. It is not in the night sky to judge them, to strike at them with lightning or whirlwinds, not in the arms of their […]
Iron County Residents Demand Justice
July 18, 2013 by Michael and Maureen Matusewic [Last week, Gogebic Taconite (GTac) hired an out-of-state security company from Arizona to patrol the site of the drilling equipment in the Penokee Hill of northern Wisconsin, where they claim they will build a 22-mile open pit mountaintop removal iron ore mine. The guards, GTac claimed, were […]
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