Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Thomas Howes, natural resources program manager for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, discussed the band's reintroduction of sturgeon to the St. Louis River during a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hearing Tuesday about the impacts of downstream water pollution from the PolyMet Mining's proposed copper-nickel mine.
A photo of wild rice, wild blueberries and a jar of maple syrup flashed onto a large screen in a conference hall.
Pointing up at it, Thomas Howes, natural resources program manager for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, said these were some of his tribe's traditional sustenance at risk from mining runoff. And it's personal.
"This is literally the composition of my daughter's first solid meal," Howes said.
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