[2021]
Featuring Joy Harjo, Bonnie Raitt, Mumu Fresh, Indigo Girls, Winona LaDuke, Pura Fe, Soni Moreno, Jennifer Kreisberg, Day Sisters.
Music: Larry Long
Words: Larry Long, Winona LaDuke, Keri Pickett, Buffy Sainte Marie, Keith Secola, Pura Fe, Dorene Day, Waubanewquay, Marian Moore, Pam Mahling
Produced by Larry Long
Released on Earth Day in 2021
MAP of the Line 3 oil pipeline through treaty-land, reservations and watersheds
FEATURED VOCALISTS
Waubanewquay: Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Winona LaDuke: Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Pura Fe: Tuscarora & Taíno Nations
Soni Moreno: Mayan, Apache & Yaqui Nations
Jennifer Kreisberg: Tuscarora Nation
Day Sisters (Sharon Day, Charlene Day-Castro, Dorene Day, Julia Uleberg): Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Mumu Fresh (aka Maimouna Youssef): Creek & Choctaw Nations
Indigo Girls (Amy Ray & Emily Saliers)
Bonnie Raitt
Joy Harjo,... (Continues)
On this land where we belong (Continues)
Contributed by Pierre-André Lienhard 2025/8/1 - 11:30
[1984]
On the Album "Run for Freedom"
Lyrics and Music by Larry Long
Words & Music by Larry Long
Copyright Larry Long Publishing 1983 renewed 2023
The song honors Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, a Mi'kmaq activist who dedicated her life to help Indian people everywhere, organizing social care, involved with educational projects and participating to protests. She was involved with the American Indian Movement (AIM), participated in the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973, became the higher-ranked woman in the AIM. She disappeared in December 1975 and was found murdered in February 1976. She was 30 years old.
Because of the FBI and AIM being in open conflict, of the investigation superficially conducted in its early stages, of the body not immediately being identified, rumors circulated incriminating both parties, depending on the point of view: political assassination by the FBI, execution by... (Continues)
From the womb of Nova Scotia (Continues)
Contributed by Pierre-André Lienhard 2025/7/22 - 14:55
A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY (Summary from Wikipedia entries relating to the various protagonists):
1945
Anna Mae was born on March 27, into the Mi'kmaq First Nation at Indian Brook Reserve in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.
1962
Moves with James Maloney from the reserve to Boston
1964
Birth of her first daughter, Denise
1965
Birth of her second daughter, Debbie, and marriage with James Maloney
1969
Meets members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and gets involved in the Teaching and Research in Bicultural Education School Project (TRIBES)
1970
Divorce. Helps creating the Boston Indian Council to work to improve conditions for Indians in the city
1972
Participates in the Trail of Broken Treaties march of American Indian activists to Washington, D.C. Meets Nogeeshik Aquash, from Walpole Island, Canada.
1973
The two travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to join AIM... (Continues)
Featuring Joy Harjo, Bonnie Raitt, Mumu Fresh, Indigo Girls, Winona LaDuke, Pura Fe, Soni Moreno, Jennifer Kreisberg, Day Sisters.
Music: Larry Long
Words: Larry Long, Winona LaDuke, Keri Pickett, Buffy Sainte Marie, Keith Secola, Pura Fe, Dorene Day, Waubanewquay, Marian Moore, Pam Mahling
Produced by Larry Long
Released on Earth Day in 2021
MAP of the Line 3 oil pipeline through treaty-land, reservations and watersheds
FEATURED VOCALISTS
Waubanewquay: Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Winona LaDuke: Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Pura Fe: Tuscarora & Taíno Nations
Soni Moreno: Mayan, Apache & Yaqui Nations
Jennifer Kreisberg: Tuscarora Nation
Day Sisters (Sharon Day, Charlene Day-Castro, Dorene Day, Julia Uleberg): Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Mumu Fresh (aka Maimouna Youssef): Creek & Choctaw Nations
Indigo Girls (Amy Ray & Emily Saliers)
Bonnie Raitt
Joy Harjo,... (Continues)