Court
has been set for a continuance August 31st, I was inclined to take a plea
agreement and set for a Resolution of my case until I realized that part of the
agreement was to not trespass enter or be within 1000 feet of Enbridge property
or pipelines, I can not Trespass on my own Lands. I own land at Magney Drive where I have a
traditional prayer lodge built by Jim Northrup III and a traditional Wagonogan
built by Neo Gabo Benais, my lodges and property are located directly next to
an Enbridge easement where there exists multiple operating pipelines. I grew up
in the foster care system and I hold a close relationship to my foster family
to this day, In order to visit my sick Mother I must cross these pipelines
twice. I snare rabbit, in order to get to the area where I trap and snare I
must cross the pipeline easement again twice, and twice again to get to dead
fish lake where I have riced now for 3 years, not to mention the contamination
of dead fish lake from the aquifer breach.
This
agreement would have been binding, and unreasonable, as it would directly
impede on my constitutionally protected treaty rights to hunt fish and gather.
Enbridge is a foreign oil company, none of the oil remains local, it is
transported and shipped to other countries, if Enbridge line 3 was going to
make a difference in our local economy then why am I paying so much at the
pump? I however do make a difference in
my community, I am a fierce advocate for indigenous rights, a tenacious voice
that speaks out against violence against women, and I empower and uplift our
youth. I deserve to be free on the lands I belong to, especially the lands that
my ancestors starved to death for in the winter of 1850. I am a treaty enforcer
of the 1854, and my children and I have more rights to be here then the
Enbridge Corporation.
>> The statement above is by Taysha Martineau - water protector facing legal charges connected to protesting the Line 3 pipeline.
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