Members of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians tribe and others travel aboard a tribal community canoe called the Jiimaan in the Straits of Mackinac in October 2020. The group was recording the lake bottom for prehistoric submerged artifacts near the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline. (Courtesy | Philip Hutchinson)Courtesy | Philip Hutchinson
Leaders of Michigan’s federally recognized Indigenous tribes recently united to seek the White House’s help in their collective fight to shut down the Line 5 pipeline – particularly the four-mile underwater section in the Great Lakes’ Straits of Mackinac.
President Joe Biden received a collaborative request from Michigan’s 12 federally recognized tribes that make up the Three Fires Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi to intervene in their ongoing struggle to shut down Line 5 and preserve their treaty rights. Meanwhile, the president received a second letter from a contingent of Republican U.S. Representatives who wished to sway the president to instead keep the petrochemical pipeline flowing.
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