end Pipeline myths
Channel: Tricia.E
Date: 2022-10-19

music by @Duncan Laurence 
sound edited by @illuminative7thgen on tiktok.
Who was the first MMIW?
Pocahontas
The legacy of violence against first nations women and children dates back to the early 1600s when Matoaka, a young girl of 11 or 12, was kidnapped from her tribe and taken to England. You may know her as Pocahontas, but she is commonly considered the first MMIW.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Sitting Bull

Paired with jurisdictional, cultural, and legal limitations, non-native perpetrators have the potential to commit heinous crimes with limited repercussions.

Such experiences of Indigenous people are not unique just to the United States. The increase in violent acts that follow “man camps” of the oil industry have been documented in Canada as well.
to learn more links below👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/oil-spill-cleanup-illusion/

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/why-are-pipelines-bad

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/30-years-of-oil-and-gas-pipeline-spills-mapped

https://www.colorado.edu/program/fpw/2019/03/14/new-report-finds-increase-violence-coincides-oil-boom

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