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"WALK TO SAVE OUR WATERS" BEGINS IN JANESVILLE SATURDAY 10 AM, SCHEDULED
FOR CAPITOL MONDAY NOON
Menominee tribal member Dewey Skenandore will be starting his "Walk to
Save Our Waters" on Saturday, April 26 in Janesville. The walk will
finish at the proposed Crandon mine site in about three weeks.
The walk will begin at 10 am at the Heider farm, Janesville home of the
white buffalo Miracle. Take the Avalon exit off the Interstate, go west
(right) to the Rock River, take a right, and go down several houses.
The walk will arrive in MADISON on Monday, April 28 at the State Capitol
at 12 noon. Skenandore will be coming into Madison on County MM, which
turns into John Nolan Drive, and invites people to join him as he walks to
the Capitol. (He also invites walkers to join him when he leaves Madison
along County BB to Cottage Grove, then County N south to Hwy 18, then east
to Milwaukee.)
Skenandore has walked all over the continent for Native American and
environmental concerns. The walk will take him 355 miles to Milwaukee,
the Green Bay area, and along the Wolf River (designated by American
Rivers as the fifth most endangered river in North America) to the Crandon
mine site at the Mole Lake Chippewa Reservation.
For more updates on the route and dates, call Nations for the Environmental
Protection of Earth's Waters (NEPEW) at 414-342-8166 or 414-906-0431.
["Nepew" translates into "water."]