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MOTHER EARTH | Etino̲ haˀ Ohwęjadeˀ
STEWARDSHIP

Goal: Restore our relationship with Mother Earth through

STEWARDSHIP of land and water.

Positive Change Impacts

Food System (page 20) Culture & Tradition (page 28)
Maintaining the health of soil, Being better stewards allows us
forests and waters allows them to to live up to the identity we claim
continue providing our food needs as protectors of the earth

Justice & Community Education (page 72)
Standards (page 44) Having more intact ecosystems
When we live up to our will help us realise our goal of
responsibility as stewards, we more land-based learning
can rely less on regulation and
enforcement and more on
personal accountability

Healthy Economic
Lifestyles (page 94) Self-Reliance (page 80)
A healthier environment allows Being better stewards of our
us to access the food, water and resources will be an important part
medicines we need to be well of supporting ourselves in perpetuity

Recreation (page 54) Infrastructure (page 64)
When more natural spaces When our water sources are
are maintained we have more cleaner we can reduce the
opportunities to enjoy Mother complexity of our infrastructure,
Earth through outdoor activities and with it the cost

Community Member Responsibilities

• Live up to our Haudenosaunee identity as stewards
• Plant trees to recover any lost during house construction
• Have your property assessed for its environmental assets such as streams, wetlands, medicines, species at risk
• Have land surveyed properly to help address land and neighbour issues
• Plant non-invasive trees and shrubs on unused parts of your property

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