INTERNATIONAL TREATY TO PROTECT THE SACRED FROM TAR SANDS PROJECTS
Reposted from intercontinentalcry.org website:
“From January 23 – 25, 2013, a Ceremonial Grand Council was held on Ihanktonwan homelands to affirm a unifying International Treaty between Indigenous Peoples and allies who seek to protect the sacred from the Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline.
The International Treaty–signed by Tribal elders and their Allies–builds upon the Save the Fraser River Declaration, Rights of Mother Earth Accord, Indigenous Leaders Spiritual Declaration, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
To learn more, please visit http://www.protectthesacred.org
Signed on January 25th 2013
The representatives from sovereign Indigenous Nations, tribes, and governments, participating in the Gathering to Protect the Sacred on January 23 – 25, 2013, on the 150 year anniversary of the Treaty Between the Pawnee and Yankton Sioux, have gathered on the Ihanktonwan homelands, and have resolved by our free, prior, and informed consent to enter into a treaty to be forever respected and protected. We agreed upon the following articles:”