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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

�ese emulations were generated by simply replacing “caribou” with

“petroleum” in snatches of the Congressional testimony of Sarah James

and pamphlets put out by the Gwich’in Steering Committee. �e Gwich’in

people are an Indigenous Nation spread across northeastern Alaska and

northwestern Canada. �e Gwich'in Steering Committee was formed to

protect the Porcupine Caribou cal�ng grounds from oil and gas development.

For more information check out: ourarcticrefuge.org

“We are caribou people.  Caribou are not just what we eat; they are who we are. 

�ey are in our stories and songs and the whole way we see the world. 

Caribou are our life.  Without caribou we wouldn’t exist”.  ~Sarah James

emulations

undeveloping.info

INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

�ese emulations were generated by simply replacing “caribou” with

“petroleum” in snatches of the Congressional testimony of Sarah James

and pamphlets put out by the Gwich’in Steering Committee. �e Gwich’in

people are an Indigenous Nation spread across northeastern Alaska and

northwestern Canada. �e Gwich'in Steering Committee was formed to

protect the Porcupine Caribou cal�ng grounds from oil and gas development.

For more information check out: ourarcticrefuge.org

“We are caribou people.  Caribou are not just what we eat; they are who we are. 

�ey are in our stories and songs and the whole way we see the world. 

Caribou are our life.  Without caribou we wouldn’t exist”.  ~Sarah James

emulations

undeveloping.info

INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

For about a hundred years our ancestors have relied on petroleum for subsistence and continue today to subsist on crude petroleum from all over the planet which is essential to meet the nutritional cultural and spiritual needs of our people.

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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

We consider ourselves petroleum people. We identify ourselves with the petroleum stream. We've used it for more than a hundred years for tools, clothing, shelter, food, and we still use it

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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

�e Americans are petroleum people. Our ancestors lived with the petroleum right where we are today. Petroleum provides 75 percent of the motive power for our towns and cities. But it is not just our transportation, it is who we are. Our whole way of life as a people is tied to petroleum production. It is in our language, and our songs and stories.

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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

"And this is what the petroleum is to us. We are petroleum people and we survived this far because of the petroleum and we are who we are because of the petroleum. And we dance petroleum dance and we have petroleum stories and its our clothes, it produces our food. All of our food is grown and transported with petroleum products.

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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

�e Americans rely on the petroleum complex to meet our essential physical, cultural, social, economic, and spiritual needs. Petroleum has provided our clothing, tools, weapons, shelter, medicines, and nutritional needs. �e United Sates is comprised of 300 million people who live in many kinds of communities. Reliance on traditional and customary use of petroleum is a matter of survival. Beyond the importance of our basic need, petroleum is also central in our traditional spirituality. Our songs and dances tell of the relationship that we have to petroleum. Petroleum is part of us. In our Creation story, the Big Bang, it has been told that the universe began with an explosion, a combustion. We have been told that there is an agreement between petroleum and the Americans. “�e Americans would retain a part of petroleum heart and the petroleum would retain a part of American heart.” What befalls petroleum befalls the Americans. We have an obligation to our future generation to uphold the integrity of our spiritual beliefs as well as our ancestral way of life that has been handed down one generation to the next.

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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

we are one nation of people one, one petroleum, this petroleum complex we are all related we all speak English

and thats who we are we are petroleum people

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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

petroleum is our life, its our tools, its our clothing , its our food, and its our shelter. so everything , petroleum, we do petroleum dance, we do petroleum song, we do petroleum story petroleum is everything to us, that makes us who we are

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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS

COP21:

"We Are Petroleum" 02

petroleum reflections STUDIO

I wouldn’t be sitting here speaking to you now if it wasn’t for

Petroleum. It’s our life. It is what we’ve lived for and what

all our life revolves around…. Nearly a hundred percent of

our diet is petroleum intake. It is imporatnt to our people.

It is not only important for food. It is important for spiritual,

cultural, emotional and physical reasons. It is our lifestyle—

a lot of it rotates around Petroleum…. I don’t think there

are any words that can express how important, all

consuming, the protection of this Petroleum supply chain

is to our people.

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