The Bay Mills Indian Community, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, and Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi filed notice on December 22, 2023, that they will appeal the Michigan Public Service Commission’s (MPSC) recent approval of a permit for Canadian oil giant Enbridge to build the Line 5 tunnel project beneath the Straits of Mackinac.
Tribal Nations across the Great Lakes region asked the United States, as their treaty partner and ally, to break its silence and file a brief against the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline’s trespass on the Bad River Band’s land.
Alyson White Eagle-SoundingSides is Northern Arapaho from the Wind River Reservation. She graduated from Wyoming Indian High School in Ethete, Wyoming, and went on