20140957 Ver 2_Public Notice Comments_20170729

Strickland, Bev
From:Jennifer Alexander <[e-mail]>
Sent:Saturday, July 29, 2017 11:26 AM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:ACP
I am writing in opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This pipeline will directly affect the traditional lands of several
tribes including the Monacan, Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Nansemond, Nottoway, Occaneechi, Haliwa-Saponi,
Meherrin, Tuscarora, Coharie, and Lumbee. This pipeline threatens sacred sites of the Monacan Tribe in Virginia and the
Tuscarora and Waccamaw peoples of North Carolina. Other undocumented sacred sites are also being threatened. Here
in Eastern North Carolina, many American Indian families rely on these streams, wetlands, rivers and other bodies of
water to connect with their ancestral roots, and also for nourishment. They catch fish to eat; hunt deer that drink from
these bodies of water to fill their freezers for the winter. They depend on the wildlife and fish to be healthy, because for
some families, that’s the bulk of the protein they eat and survive off of. They canoe through these streams, collect
medicinal plants that grow in the wetlands.

Jennifer Alexander
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