Boozhoo. Asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. Ajijaak indoodemn. Gaawaabaabigaanikaag indoonjibaa. Hello, my name is Ashley Fairbanks. In Anishinaabemowin, my name is Asiniiwikwe—woman made of stone. I am from the Crane clan, and a citizen of the White Earth Anishinaabe in northern Minnesota. I’m also the Creative Director of the 100% Campaign. In Ojibwe culture, we talk about how […]
There’s this scene in Smoke Signals, this native movie, where the main character’s mother is grieving and she says something like “my heart is in the living room and my brain is in the kitchen and my feet are out in the yard.” That’s sort of how I’m feeling coming home from Scotland, from COP26. […]
It’s an incredible privilege to get to come to COP. It’s a privilege to get to have a badge and go inside the heavily guarded fences. And tonight, Kristen asked us: do you think this was worth it? And I said yes. Yes, because I got to make some amazing new friends and comrades in […]
As Indgenous people attending COP26, things can feel complicated. So many of the issues impacting our people are not well represented. Our people are not well represented. But today was a day that felt good. We started the day with a panel at the U.S. Climate Action Center on Indigenous Resistance to the Line 3 […]
I don’t remember if it was the day of, or the day after. We started at an intersection, The one outside of the precinct that was finally burned. That one that loomed there over us my whole life. We started there. Am I blending memories together now because I don’t remember if that was the […]