Inside the Tar Sands’ Last Healing Walk It may seem - TopicsExpress



          

Inside the Tar Sands’ Last Healing Walk It may seem defeatist to pray in the face of an industrial behemoth like Alberta’s tar sands, but it is actually an incredible show of strength. As millennia old traditions, these prayers have survived smallpox epidemics, policies of starvation, religious bans, torture in state sanctioned residential schools, and massive environmental degradation at the hands of mining, oil, and gas industries. Praying in the heart of Alberta’s tar sands is a palpable act of defiance—a clear refusal to go extinct after centuries of attempted genocide.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 22:37:51 +0000

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