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Stateside, the mayor of Windsor, Ontario has a creative solution for getting excess Detroit vaccine doses to Canadians: a vaccine clinic in the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. Plus, a historian from the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians talks about the enduring legacy of Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader who united Native tribes against settler expansion. And, we dig into the job market during the pandemic recovery.
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Newest COVID vaccine clinic for desperate Canadians? The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.
Stateside s conversation with Eric Hemenway
Though some Native individuals and communities in the region agreed with Tenskwatawa’s messages, some did not, said
Eric Hemenway, director of archives and records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and a member of the Michigan Historical Commission.
“[Tenskwatawa] had quite a bit of sway. But then, the Prophet was also very, very strict, for lack of a term, in his messages and delivery,” Hemenway said. “He took a very hard line in some cases with other tribes. He would intervene, and some other tribes didn t like how that was happening. They thought he was overstepping his boundaries. So it was all based on the individual and the community and how they viewed this person.”
LaDuke writes that Minnesotans should pay attention to what s happening with Enbridge in Michigan.
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Winona LaDuke
I just returned from an Enbridge eviction party on May 12-13. People gathered at the Straits of Mackinac to enforce the state of Michigan’s orders to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline. The 70-year-old pipe was placed at the bottom of the straits separating Lake Michigan from Lake Huron in l953. The state says the pipe is a risk. Enbridge says it won’t shut it down, the state has no jurisdiction to revoke the easement.
Hundreds of people gathered on the shores of Lake Michigan, following an international press conference, where both Canadian and U.S. citizens, tribal nations and businesses, called for Enbridge to abide by the law. In November, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to revoke and terminate Enbridge’s 1953 easement with the state effective May 12 while giving En