Members of Alaska-based Native Movement blocked a road leading into the Nenana Totchaket Agricultural Project for two days last week. The activists want state officials to reconsider their plans for both the road and agriculture project.
Native Movement activists and others participating in the two-blockade included, from left: Nenana Native Association First Chief Caroline Ketzler, Enei Begaye, Deloole’aanh Erickson and Lindsey Maillard. for two days last week.
Begaye is executive director of Native Movement, an Alaska-based nonprofit that promotes social justice and sustainability through Indigenous environmental practices. Members of the organization and their local allies say the state hasn’t fully consulted with local tribal and community members. And they say it’sSo they blocked the road leading into the project just as the contractor apparently was about to begin work.
“The tribe asked Native Movement to organize and physically blockade the bridge before any equipment could be moved across to the road,” said Lindsey Maillard, an environmental justice coordinator with Native Movement. She and fellow members of the group and others from the Nenana Native Association and Village Council, participated in the blockade, along with members of the community.
“Anyone could go through, but we were just not wanting the equipment to make it to the other side,” she said. Tessen said DOT and contractor representatives decided last week to delay moving ahead on the road project after meeting with local residents and tribal members to talk about their concerns.
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