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Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, Indigenous and Shawn Mullins perform the fourth Honor the Earth Concert Tour September 30 to October 19.
St. Paul, MN-
Grammy award winning Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily
Saliers embark on their fourth Honor the Earth concert tour beginning September 30, 2000, on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana.
An all star line up of national talent, including Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Indigenous and Shawn Mullins will join the tour at different points as it winds its way through seven states, culminating on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin on October 19.
Each of the 16 stops on this three-week concert tour will benefit Native environmental groups. This year's Honor the Earth Tour will focus on the need to right past environmental injustices against Native people, zeroing in on two watershed issues in Indian Country: buffalo protection and nuclear waste policy.
The tour is a rally cry to "Stop the Yellowstone Buffalo Slaughter" and for "No Nuclear Waste on Native Lands."
These issues share a timely opportunity to leverage policy
change. Tour organizers hope that increased citizen support for Native struggles will shift policy away from repeating past tragedies toward viable solutions.
"Both of these issues are winnable if we create a strong
voice for change. In this new century, it is time to right the
injustices of the past, and develop just and honorable
relationships with Native peoples," said Honor the Earth
spokesperson Winona LaDuke.
The state of Montana and federal agencies have brutally killed more than 1,200 buffalo in one of the last 'wild' places in America, Yellowstone National Park. They are killing buffalo to allegedly safeguard cattle that graze outside the park. No scientific evidence exists to prove buffalo pose a disease threat to cows. Native people have taken a firm stand against the slaughter.
The Honor the Earth Tour will make seven stops in Montana to support non-partisan organizing by reservation-based groups to Get Out The Indian Vote and Save the Yellowstone Buffalo.
Rallies will be held on the Northern Cheyenne, Blackfeet and Flathead Reservations and concerts will take place in Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls and Missoula to register voters and build momentum for voter turnout.
Indian people are the largest minority population in Montana, and the buffalo issue strikes to the heart of Native concerns. Honor the Earth's goal is to catalyze Get Out The Indian Vote organizing as a means to create a stronger voice for Native people in the state. The national voter registration group, Rock the Vote, will join Native Vote organizers at each stop.
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