Indigenous-led Resistance to Environmental Destruction: Methods of Anishinaabe Land Defense against Enbridge's Line 3

• Main Author: Hughes, Charlotte Degener
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2018
• Subjects: decolonization; Indigenous feminism; Native sovereignty; settler colonialism; resistance movement; Civic and Community Engagement; Environmental Studies; Feminist; Gender; and Sexuality Studies; Inequality and Stratification; Place and Environment; Politics and Social Change; Race and Ethnicity; anishina*
• Online Access: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/91; https://scholarship.claremont.edu/context/pitzer_theses/article/1088/viewcontent/Hughes_Line3Thesis.pdf

Enbridge has proposed the Line 3 “Replacement” Project, a new pipeline project taking a new route strait through Anishinaabe treaty territory in what is known as northern Minnesota. In the middle of the regulation process, the future remains unclear of how the State of Minnesota will move forward with the permitting process, but Anishinaabe communities, a range of non-profit organizations, and local landowners remain firmly against the line. Rooted in varied frameworks of Native sovereignty, the land, and Indigenous feminism, Anishinaabe communities lead the resistance against a product of ongoing settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental racism. This thesis contextualizes the multi-tactical repertoires of those defending the land in the existing work of Indigenous scholars who write on the necessity for land-based resistance towards the unsettling process of decolonization. Ultimately, the resistance against Line 3 is representative of a long-term battle for Native sovereignty and self-determination in defense of the land and future generations.