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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS
COP21:
“We Are Petroleum”
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petroleum
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�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
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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
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INTERACTIVE MUSINGS
COP21:
“We Are Petroleum”
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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.
emulation01
INTERACTIVE MUSINGS
COP21:
“We Are Petroleum”
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petroleum
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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
emulation02
INTERACTIVE MUSINGS
COP21:
“We Are Petroleum”
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petroleum
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�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.
emulation03
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“We Are Petroleum”
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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.
emulation04
INTERACTIVE MUSINGS
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“We Are Petroleum”
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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.
emulation05
INTERACTIVE MUSINGS
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“We Are Petroleum”
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petroleum
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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
emulation06
INTERACTIVE MUSINGS
COP21:
“We Are Petroleum”
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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
emulation07
INTERACTIVE MUSINGS
COP21:
“We Are Petroleum”
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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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