HUMILITY

Wanqwajite’teken.....Humility:
Humility is to know yourself as a sacred part of Creation.
In the Mi’kmaq language, this word can also mean "compassion."
You are equal to others, but you are not better.
Some communities instead express this with Wantaqo’ti, which in addition to "peace" can also be translated as "calmness," "meekness," "gentility" or "patience."

A SPECIAL EVENT

Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, Sept 9th,2015:

Strong Women Group from Flat Bay:

There was a display of baskets and art.

Mi'kmaw people from all over the West Coast of Newfoundland and students from the Campus were part of the special event , chanting and singing Mi'kmaw Songs.

Special Adviser to the President for Aboriginal Affairs (MUN), Catheryn Andersen , also attended.

Then there was a little feast om blueberries.

What an honorable event..

Pikto'l Sa'ke'j Miu's / VIM..

WE STAND ON GUARD

Three First Nations children.... we stand on guard with thee .

PEACEFUL WARRIORS FOR MOTHER EARTH

This is a message to leaders in our Society.

On this day, Sept. 5th @ 10:00 am, near Shoal Point , never forget our responsibility to our land and sacred water .

Four different groups from Bay St. George, and a group from Corner Brook , and our leaders in Government, have shown us an interest.Then people from the area united in unity, as we all prayed for the sacred water, our first entry , of all life as humans.

Still today nothing has changed and for this reason the people should ask their Government member of the this area, both Provincial and Federal, that we as a people have to try to live a healthy life in harmony and leave our environment as is.

Government, we all must show our youth, the leaders of the future generations, that someone in this area has to clean up this crude oil that has been leaking in the Bay St. George area for the past two years , maybe ever longer. The coast line where this leak is a toxic combination and has poisoned what ever comes in contact with it .

One of my main concerns is the well being of all people and their right to have fresh water . We cannot survive without it.

Here is the estimated amount of oil that has leaked from the orphan oil well on Shoal Point using Amex figures.

I litre per hour....24 liters per day, 365 days X 24 liters per day = 8760 liters per year. Two years , or 730 days X 24 liters per day = 17,520 liters.

At this location (eleu-1m),921u-036065690-UTM_5386739) , distance sitting oil 720-FEET, 190-SW...West Bay, (artesian aquifer), and East Bay could very well have this leak exposed to their drinking water, (after closer look), test the dip and lay of the shale formation).

People should get their Government to do a tap water test for fluoride , heavy metals , lead , mercury , arsenic, heravelent , chromium 6 , benzene, , B.P.A.--M.T.B.e and VOC's .

I'm very honored and an uplifted that all people came together.

Muchie Bennett has shown so much respect to the next generation that they will not ever forget this day of prayer .

Honor to all that the Creator has given us . This is all free and we must not destroy Mother Earth . She is our first mother who nourishes us all.

Wela'laq-Thank you all,

Pikto'l Sa'ke'j Miu's

Victor James Miuse.

PRAYER FOR HOPE AT SHOAL POINT

© Frank Gale/The Western Star

Victor Muise, left, and his student Madison Bedo of the White Wolf Drummer Group, are seen participating in a “Singing to the Waters” event this morning at Shoal Point near Boswarlos on the Port au Port Peninsula.

“This is not a demonstration or a protest or about getting status cards. This is about our earth, our water and environment and praying through song, dance and drumming that damage of the past can be contained and the people and environment not be neglected in the future,” he said this morning.

Those in attendance came from every walk of life and while the majority of people were from the Bay St. George area, others came from Corner Brook and St. John’s with visitors from Alberta also in attendance.

There are strong concerns by native and environmental groups in the area of leakage from former wells drilled at Shoal Point on the Port au Port Peninsula and that although it has been identified as from the wells and not natural seepage that no work has started yet on stopping it.

Suzanne Barry, one of the participants with strong concerns about the environment, said people can expect to see more gatherings like this in the months and years ahead.

“This is just the beginning. Really, a person cannot be aboriginal and not concerned with the environment. It’s impossible,” she said.

© Frank Gale/The Western Star

Victor Muise, left, and his student Madison Bedo of the White Wolf Drummer Group, are seen participating in a “Singing to the Waters” event at Shoal Point near Boswarlos on the Port au Port Peninsula.