Author: Tom Genung

2022 9th Annual Planting of Sacred Ponca Corn in the Path of Keystone XL

UPDATE: View photos of the 2022 Ponca Corn Planting on Facebook.  We and our hosts Helen and Art Tanderup and family are excited to be able to invite all of our friends to join us again this year on Saturday, April 30th for the Ninth Annual Planting of Sacred Ponca Corn, on Ponca Nation land […]
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2021 Eighth Annual Harvest of Sacred Ponca Corn Planted in the Path of Keystone XL

We are excited to announce that we are once again able to invite a limited number of friends to join us on Saturday, Oct. 16 for this year’s eighth annual harvest of sacred Ponca corn, planted on Ponca Nation land, on Art & Helen Tanderup’s family farm in the path of the now-cancelled Keystone XL […]
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Keystone XL Public Hearings in Plainview & O’Neill: How to Submit Testimony

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, and a promise from Joe Biden to stop the pipeline if he wins the election for President, TransCanada is continuing to push forward with local permits it still needs in Nebraska for its proposed Keystone XL project. Bold is not encouraging any kind of gatherings of Pipeline Fighters right now, during […]
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Take Action to Stop TransCanada’s Mancamp in Plainview, Nebraska

TransCanada / TC Energy just submitted an application for permits to build a “mancamp” to house hundreds of workers for its proposed Keystone XL pipeline near the town of Plainview, Nebraska. Add your name to the petition urging Plainview elected officials to reject TransCanada’s KXL mancamp in Nebraska. The city of Plainview (pop. 1,195) in […]
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Nebraska Floods: How to Help Tribes, Farmers & Ranchers Recover

Friends, We are witnessing the aftermath of devastating floods here in Nebraska, where 65 counties and 74 cities have declared a state of emergency — no doubt a climate change-fueled combination of a blizzard followed by rapidly melting snow and torrential rains. [1] The storms have claimed several human lives, along with hundreds of thousands […]
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Sacred Ponca Corn Planted in Path of Keystone XL for Fourth Consecutive Year

Mother Nature gave us an awesomely bountiful day on May 21st for the fourth year of planting the Sacred Ponca Corn on Art and Helen Tanderup’s farm near the Ponca Trail of Tears and in the path of the proposed Keystone XL tarsands pipeline. Click here to view all photos from the Ponca corn planting […]
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