Design by Sarah LittleRedfeather
“Akiing,” means the land to which the people belong.
In Anshinaabeg, Akiing, means “the land to which the people belong.” Akiing is an Anishinaabe organization working on restoring sacred landscapes, community wealth and resilience in the Great Lakes region. This is the time of our prophecies, the time when the green path must be taken, and the healing must begin. This is the time of the 7th Fire and the 8th Fire, the fire of sustainability.
Akiing is a 50l (C) 3 organization from the White Earth reservation which is dedicated to the culturally based restoration of land, economies, and way of life in the Great Lakes region. In the upcoming five years, we will formalize the structure of our Akiing Land Trust, securing additional lands around the villages of Pine Point and in the larger Anishinaabe territory, and nurture the development of a set of Indigenous cooperatives focused on restoration of traditional Anishinaabe economies, farming, hemp, solar and green construction. We will nurture leadership development for a new generation of courageous Anishinaabe, and create the infrastructure necessary to support regional work, based on the Mondragon Cooperative model, (the Euskadi/Basque cooperatives) to better serve our community.
During the harsh times of the pandemic and the Enbridge occupation, we grew dramatically into five programs: 8th Fire Solar, Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute, the New Green Revolution - Hemp Economy, Leadership Development, and Land Back.
“Somewhere between the teachings of western science and those of Indigenous peoples, there is some agreement on the state of the world.
Ecosystems are collapsing, species are going extinct the polar ice caps are melting and nuclear radiation is contaminating the land and water.
The challenge at the cusp of the millennium is to transform human laws to match natural laws, not visa versa And to correspondingly transform wasteful production and voracious consumption.
America and industrial society must move from a society based on conquest to one steeped in the practice of survival.
In order to do that, we must close the circle. The linear nature of industrial production itself, in which labor and technology turn natural resources into consumer products and wastes , must be transformed into a cyclical system In the gest scenario, natural resources must be re-used or not used at all, and waste production cut to a mere trickle
Those who watch carefully onaanaagadawaabandamaawaa, know that this will require a technological cultural and legal transformation”
