It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.