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Push to Drill Overshadows Our Civil Rights
Our sacred
places under
threat to cut
taxes for the rich
b ernaDette D eMientieff
Right now in Washington, D.C.,
Congress is making decisions that
will affect my future and that of
my people — the Gwich’in Nation
of Alaska and Canada.
A critical part of our ancestral
homelands, the coastal plain of
the Arctic National Wildlife Ref-
uge — one of the world’s last un-
touched places — could be lost to
by
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the thirst for oil.
Some in Congress want to open
the area to drilling and use the rev-
enue to offset
tax cuts for
the wealthy.
Meanwhile,
President
Trump is qui-
etly permit-
ting compa-
nies to take the first steps towards
drilling here.
The Arctic Refuge, home to
wildlife and vast lands essential
to my people’s survival, has been
reduced to a line item.
I’m disturbed that the push to
drill has been allowed to over-
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shadow our human rights. The
Gwich’in people have relied on
the lands of the refuge for thou-
sands of years. These lands pro-
vide everything we need to live
and thrive — our food, our cloth-
ing, our tools, everything.
My people have always subsist-
ed on the Porcupine Caribou Herd,
whose calving grounds are in the
coastal plain. This is why we call
the coastal plain “the sacred place
where life begins.”
This place is vital for the sur-
vival of my people. We are cari-
bou people. Our elders say that
what befalls the caribou befalls
the Gwich’in. If they go, we go.
Part of us will die with them, and
the other half can’t survive with-
out them.
Our identities as indigenous
people are at stake, and decision
makers at the highest levels must
take that into account. My people,
history, culture, and our future
must factor into the decision mak-
ing in Washington.
I’m also disturbed to hear pol-
iticians talking about “directional
drilling” to justify opening this
area as part of the budget. That is,
they’re planning on placing drills
just outside the boundaries of the
refuge and drilling sideways to
reach oil under this special place.
Directional drilling is billed as
safe and clean technology. It’s not.
There is no safe drilling.
Such drilling would allow mas-
sive oil infrastructure to squeeze
the borders of the refuge, while
drills could be sunk into the coast-
al plain, the heart of the refuge,
in the name of exploration. That
would disturb the caribou calving
grounds and hinder the migra-
tion patterns of already declining
herds.
And what hurts the caribou ulti-
mately hurts my people.
The Gwich’in Nation has been
fighting this fight since it first
came up 40 years ago. That’s why
every two years, the Gwich’in
come together to reaffirm our
commitment to protect the coastal
plain of the refuge from drilling.
Last year, people came from
the 15 villages that make up the
Gwich’in Nation. We danced. We
sang. We were well provided for,
and I felt that our ancestors were
sitting there with us. Now tribes
across Alaska are coming together
again against drilling.
We have a moral responsibil-
ity to protect this land for our
children and grandchildren. This
isn’t a game. Real lives are at
stake — our lives — along with
special places that are too sacred
to drill.
Congress must take drilling in
the Arctic National Wildlife Ref-
uge off the table. It’s up to all of
us to protect this sacred place for
generations to come.
Bernadette Demientieff is the
executive director for the Gwich’in
Steering Committee. Distributed
by OtherWords.org.