Face it, cruise ships are gross.
Profligate waste. 1377 gallons of diesel fuel per hour, or 66,000 gallons a day. http://cruises.lovetoknow.com
Sewage and plastics spewed into the ocean. Sewage and food waste into the Bahamian waters .
Sewage and plastic into the great lakes region. Yes , I said it. Sewage. The stuff that the toilets produce. Shit, from the same place that your fish is farmed. Cruise ships stop shitting on the great lakes! One price quote for a cruise ship tour of the great lakes, starts at $13, 000 but the restitution owed to indigenous people and the land is is unpayable by the colonist and we will eventually have to take our own restitution by force. Land back and so much more.
The rich pay for these cruises. I am working class, and this is bullshit. I used to watch the lake, 1966. Sailboats, Iron ore ships. Fishing boats.
These were boats that accomplished some service. However, cruise ships function purely for hedonism. Cruise ship owners like Disney, Carnival etc. are psychopathic entities. Disney has made massive contributions to the military industrial complex creating violence across the globe. Carnival cruise lines: Expels 500000 gal of sewage and 11000 gallons of food waste globally.
Disney cruise lines is more adept at green washing. Disney offers a package where a tourist can travel to area or place ” untouched by man” On their own island. Colonial tourism. Galivanting on stolen lands. occupying them for pleasure. These ships would be better repurposed for bringing settlers back to their places of origin. Better if these vessels are repurposed to put indigenous in control of immigration as currently some 95 percent of peoples being denied immigration to the so called “u.s” are actually indigenous.
A floating den of thieves. Sexual assault. Murder. A ship full of covid.
The diesel fuel pollutes everything. More C02 into The water. The air. Sensitive habitat. The affected communities. Cruise ships murder coral reefs. Asthma numbers go up. Community members don’t like cruise ships invading their homes and waters.
The Bahamas, has Lemon sharks, turtles, coral, sea birds and some of the clearest Waters on earth.
Yet, the Red Cliff band of Chippewa ” indians” warmly received the captain and crew. They welcome hedonism. Along with chamber of commerce , the mayor and a shop owner or 2. The beautiful Red Cliff drum and dance group was there to dance for the crew and passengers.
The dance troup consisted of some children , ages 7 – 17.
Rabbett Strickland was there. He gifted the captain with the art ” Voyage of a New world”
Its so good for the economy ! is the rallying cry.
The precious economy. What these exploiters fail to understand is there is no economy without a healthy environment. We the indigenous seek full dictatorship over our lands and natura resources. We intend to set our own environmental standards once the colonists are diminished. Colonists as we have stated so many times have no place being in control of anything on Turtle Island especially natural resources. The colonist has no reverence and everything they touch is threatened.
I believe the Vicking Ocantus went to Bayfied WI 4 times. This floating city had a little over 500 of crew and passengers. Some floating cities can hold thousands.
Close to Bayfield, are the Apostle islands and Madeline Island. Now, a cruise ship invasion. This area is part of the Ojibwe migratory route. In history, we sought the place where the food grows on the water. ( wild rice) on this route. The Ojibwe settled in various places on this route. Migration of the Midewin
Carnal over consumption by the rich and exploitive seen successful. Lifestyles of the rich and exploitive. Kind of like an alcoholic on a train bound for nowhere.
(Vomiting Sound). On a binge to end all binges.
The artist, Rabbett Strickland, reminds me of Waynaboozhoo. Waynaboozhoo had/ has the ability to learn from his mistakes.)
A small apartment in SF, he’s got to pay an exorbitant amount of rent, too. It was said by one writer that his apartment was as walking into a different world. The world of the Lake Superior Ojibwe, as depicted in his brilliant art. Waynaboozhoo, depicted with fawn ears, medievalesque. The river flowing with blood, as he contemplates the passing of our wolf brothers.
The voyage of the New World: The voyage to the new world depicts 6 Ojibwe in a boat. On a very tumultuous Lake Superior. Not a canoe…
.. I was not able to find the proper translation. Chi Jiiman.
Big canoe.
In the helm of the boat there is a ‘ shinaab holding a large turtle.
Mi zhee kay or turtle, helps form a new earth. After the catastrophic flood in chapter 5, of the Mishomis book, mi zheekay , the turtle, takes the piece of earth from Muskrat , ( muskrat gave his life for us).
Story of flood and turtle island:
Waynaboozhoo took the piece of earth from muskrats paw.
Mizheekay ( turtle) swam forward. He said” use my back to bear the weight of this piece of earth.” Waynaboozhoo then put the piece of earth on the turtles back.
Noo di noon began to blow. The wind blew from each of the 4 directions.. The piece of earth on turtles back begin to grow.
It formed mi ni si ( island ) in the water.
Still the earth grew. Still the turtle bore its weight on its back.
A huge island sat in the great expanse of water. Waynaboozhoo began to sing.
The animals began to dance in an ever widening circle..the winds stopped blowing and the waters became still.
Traditional people today still sing songs and dance in a circle in memory of this event.
To this day, creator has made it so that the descendants of muskrat have a good life. Marshes have been drained and destroyed. Muskrats continue to multiply and grow.
Chapter 5, mishomis book.
There are many tellings from many of the earths people that show that depict
The ancient Mesopotamians had The Epic Tale Of Gilgamesh which later became coopted into Noah”s ark . We have the telling of Turtle island. The Crow have a similar telling but, in their version, ducks are the hero instead of muskrat.
I posit that the earths ecosystems can no longer withstand the constant assault and dirtiness of colonists. Earth is fighting back, in doing so, she will eliminate millions of humans. Indigenous are keystone species that benefit the ecosystem this has been lost by the colonist somewhere in their process 1,300 years ago.
The Red Cliff band of Chippewa Indians venerate war and imperialism. Check out the casino and see the display of photos of veterans past until present day. This is one of the reasons we must continue to build I.S.R the fledgling pan indigenous government. I.S.R is firmly against the glorification of the war machine.
The the time is now to rise, as the colonial system will fail and something indigenous and benevolent must be built in its place to keep them from coming back. Build I.S.R Unity thru decolonization. Confront colonialism. Restore Turtle Island including its pre-colonial ways of spirituality. We need a pan indigenous government of epic proportions.
NOT a neo colonial tribal government. Not an entity eager to be exploited. Not a tribal government held in federal trust unable to make decisions as if we are disabled or mentally retarded but a full dictatorship. Power over not power under as in the common understandings of the word sovereignty.
Reject and resist neo colonialism.
Written By Lisa Herthel of the Ojibway and Cherokee nations. Edited by Invisible Warrior, War Chief Mko of the Potowatomi, Dakota, Blackfeet nations.
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