Please READ! (Free new Drew song download too!)
This is the most important letter I’ve ever sent you. I want to tell you about something going on very close to my heart. The proposed Eagle Sulfide mine in the Upper Peninsula of my home Michigan poses a threat to every living thing in the Yellow Dog River watershed.
The company proposes to blast under a trout stream and through a sacred rock outcrop called Eagle Rock by the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. Furthermore, the mine is proposed on public land and only 10 miles from Lake Superior. Kennecott’s project could pave the way to a metallic sulfide and uranium mining district throughout Michigan’s wild Upper Peninsula. The situation recently escalated with the unlawful arrest of local Big Bay citizen, Cynthia Pryor for “trespassing” on public lands, which spurred members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community to occupy Eagle Rock.
I have written a new song called ‘Eagle Rock (song for the people)” and it will be made available for FREE to everyone. All I ask is you visit these sites, educate your self about what is going on and PLEASE make a donation to those brave heros who are holding off one of the largest and most egregious violators of indigenous peoples and our mother the earth.
THIS IS NOT A LOCAL PROBLEM IT IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM. Jessica Koski, a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community spoke at Rio Tinto’s shareholders meeting in London as were people from Calfornia, Madagascar, West Paupa, China, Namibia, Indonesia, and Bougainville Island. Please Listen to the song .. give it away and tell others what is going on. Please help me stand up for a river and the people at Eagle Rock!
Listen: Learn: Donate.
Eagle Rock (song for the people)
I think your song will have a great impact, for now and a long time to come. Thank you for sharing your interest in this important cause. May you be truely blessed.
Nice work Drew. I hope it serves the purpose well. I appreciate your drive, determination, and cause. Thanks for sharing your gift.
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Drew- My mother’s homeland of Sulawesi is similarly threatened by a $2billion dollar mining operation. Like the Anishnaabe here the Torajan, Bugis and other indigenous people hold that consider themselves a StarNation and the land sacred. Like the project here there is a trail of government corruption, lack of legal permits, no impact studies ecological or human and the immense forrest and agriculture downstream is poised top be similarly poisoned. I cannot go there but I will go up with you. Miigwetch for your song and stand…
PS- The company in question down under is Rio Tinto.
Thanks Drew for keeping us informed. This should be near and dear to everyones heart (expecially those of us in Michigan)! This affects us all!
I have only begun to see what has been in front of my face – our faces – for centuries. Blinded and drugged by dollar signs, these people (people?)are like robots. They see nothing and feel nothing for the land; it’s a commodity. Maybe the next compilation project should be original songs about the land with the procedes going to causes like these! Count us in!
Drew,
Thank you for informing so many. As a Marquette-born, Munising-raised Yooper, I was aware amd have contributed to the Yellow Dog. It was my father’s favorite trout stream. As a community radio deejay (KVMR/FM Nevada City, California I have enjoyed and played some of your music on the air. Of course I recognized US2 in the first track of your recent cd and wondered if you also may be a Michigan native. I would love to play Eagle Rock on the radio. Please contact me and let me know how I can get a copy. Thank you for what you are doing. Larry
I grew up in Michigan outdoors and love it .Thanks for Your stand, and Connect with the Hudson River Project The Pure Sound
Society in Seattle. Strength in Belief connects us.
Drew – thank you for this gift and for channeling your talents toward this important issue. We need more people like you who take time to understand the issues and events impacting our lives and to speak out.
Drew, you are amazing! Thank you so much for creating such a piece of beauty and spreading the word in the name of Clean Water!!! Your song brings tears to my eyes and brings me right back to Eagle Rock. To anyone out there…please come and visit Eagle Rock! It is such a magical place.
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I am sending the website to many. Thank you for a concise explanation on what is going on.
Drew – your song is very powerful and mindful. Thank you for your voice, your talent and your education of the people. May ten thousand fold join with you on this journey speaking for the land.
Walk in Beauty,
Hi Drew, Miigwetch. This is very encouraging for us all.
It’s a much needed morale booster.
Maybe you and others would consider a little Eagle Rock acoustic concert?
Although Kennecott has put up some fencing and they may soon try to put the rest up, all is well and we are so happy for all the wonderful love and support we have received from so many.
It is my hearts greatest wish to be up there with you guys! Lets do a concert!!!
I’m so proud of you all and am praying for you.. were trying to mobilize information down here.. so many people don’t know what is happening there..
I’ll keep working down here until I can come.
Thank you Drew – I see you sent friend reqeusts to some of our youtube pages – thanks again.
Would love to use your music in some videos I will be making.
Full credit of course.
Also – had some new stories I wrote for Indian Country Today come out today – finally.
New Eagle Rock national stories and photos Indian Country Today Newspaper includes front cover photo and story on KBIC Tribal Council Visit – and another story on controversial remarks by one councilman – and headlines of recent activities.
More stories are in the works.
The stories will soon be on website – likely on national page and/or Great Lakes pages.
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com
Now you can download or read digital edition pages 6 and 7 – and front cover photo
Digital edition
http://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/16715/59956/pub/document.pdf
http://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/16715/59956/pub/
Previous story (May 5) on Defending Eagle Rock
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/greatlakes/92880679.html
Drew,
Please call me – I’d love to do a story on your song for Indian Country Today – and get photos of your singing or recording it.
1-906-401-0109
I see you are in MI this month – if you ever come to U.P. or Eagle Rock – that would be great video.
I’d also like to use your song in some videos but was unable to download an mp3 version (unless I did it wrong)
Greg
Drew,
As I listened to your song, it drew chills to my body. They say one of the greatest gifts is to touch a heart and you have touched mine. Miigwetch for the beauty and wisdom you are passing on in your song. Take care, Pat
Thanks so much Pat. That is what it is all about.
drew
Drew,
The sound on my computer finally came back on today so, first thing, I went to this link sent to me yesterday (which I posted on my Twitter) and listened to your beautiful song. Miigwech to you and to Greg Peterson for the great articles I linked to yesterday on Keweenaw Now. Keep up your wonderful support of the brave people at Eagle Rock!
I had the honor of witnessing most of this one rise into being. You’ve given a gathering song, Drew. May it work on ears, hearts, lips, wallets, tribes, employees, politicians, corporations.
Wow. Thank you for that beautiful song. Please come and visit us soon, I can’t wait to meet you and hear this song in person!
Thank you… my spirit, support, and energy is flowing with all who stand up for what they believe in. May we all be able to find the strength and hope to help nature prevail over industry.
This song is powerful Drew. I am grateful to you for writing it, and for working on this issue.
I just had a thought: What if we get a group together and sign this song in Lansing for the governor?
We sure need this to be a state wide effort, and all work together to STAND FOR THE LAND.
In gratitude.
I meant “SING” this song, not “SIGN” this song, but we could do that as well!
WOW! From the heart…right to the tears in my eyes! Thank you for such an empowering gift!
Congrats, Drew! My prayers are with you bro.
That track is totally brilliant, and I’m not even into that kind of music! I love it!
I love it!
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I’m overwhelmed! Just yesterday I hiked on part of the woodland trail that Kennecott wants to use for hauling our treasures away! There were about thirty of us and we also walked on the North Country Trail leading off of the Woodland trail (as Kennecott calls it) with Steve Garske the botonist as well as others who are fighting Kennecott! Your song gives us a rallying cry! Thank You!!