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Honoring and recognizing the strategies founded and developed by our ancestors to resist the
military industrial complex, GIC will work with tribal nations to oppose extractive industry
and pipelines that, by definition, are acts of cultural genocide committed against our peoples,
when those developments threaten our sacred sites, treaty and ancestral lands, and will
potentially wreak environmental devastation on vital rivers, aquifers, and fragile ecosystems.
We, the united First People of the Earth, were and remain the stewards of the land and renew
our vow to carry that sacred obligation in defense of our Mother, the Earth, and all born of
her body and nurtured at her breast who are no longer heard amidst the dissonance of
industrialization and corporate domination.
From contact, the onslaught of conquest and colonization was inflicted through the
weaponization of the systematic rape and defilement of our Mother, the Earth, and the
systematic rape and victimization of indigenous women. These inseparable acts of violence
persist and have enabled the destructive exploitation of areas such as Alberta’s “Tar Sands”
and the construction of pipelines that subjugate land and communities to transport this and Indigenous people gather at Saramurillo in the Amazon
to defend their sacred lands and ways from illegal
similar virulent strains. GIC rejects these incarnations of patriarchy and misogyny that underpin mining and state-backed extractive industry.
the ideology of Manifest Destiny, and which continue to be imposed
upon us today. To do any less would be a betrayal of our children and
future generations. © Sophie Pinchetti.

One of the seminal moments in the founding of GIC was the inter-
tribal, cross-border “Reclamation of Independence” in the sacred Black
Hills on July 4, 2017. There, tribal nations from across North America
gathered to sign the historic Declaration Opposing Oil Sands Expansion and
the Construction of the Keystone-XL Pipeline and the Grizzly Bear Treaty.
It solidified the unity between the tribal nations that comprise the
Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, and other prominent

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