“Historic Muscogee Creek Summit:
A Panel Discussion”

In place of a speaker today, several members of the First E Board’s Indigenous Justice Committee will present a panel discussion of last weekend’s Muscogee Creek Summit. The event was held April 22 & 23 at Intrenchment Creek Park, also known as the Intrenchment Trailhead, located south of Atlanta in DeKalb County, just east of the Starlight Drive-in Theater on Moreland Avenue. The theme of the conference was Singing Ourselves Back Together: Community in the Weelaunee Forest. It was all about protecting the forest – and Mother Earth – from rampant destructive development across the planet, and specifically the destruction that will take place as loggers and bulldozers destroy approximately 400
trees in the park to build Atlanta’s new police training mega-complex. Members of the Oklahoma Muscogee Nation helped to plan and run the conference because they still see Georgia as the Muscogee homeland, and they continue to regard America’s indigenous people as stewards of Mother Earth.

The members of the Indigenous Justice Committee (IJC) are Nancy White, Jo Hamby, Lorraine Fontana, Edith Covington, Leon Clymore, Linda Bell, Charlene Ball, Katrice Baker, and Wade Marbaugh, who serves as committee chair. The committee did a really great job of helping the summit organizers put together a terrific, meaningful, inspiring conference.
First E contributed more than $1,300 to help cover expenses; and we loaned chairs, tables, a podium and water dispensers to the conference. Numerous summit organizers profusely thanked us for our contributions.

Facilitator: Wade Marbaugh

Musician: William Chelton