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Long time First Nations environmental activist, Sulian Stone Eagle Herney, was deeply disappointed when he learned of the actions of Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations who signed an agreement with MacMillian Bloedel which would lead to the cutting of old growth in Clayoquot Sound. "My interpretation of selective cutting is that it is just another form of ethnic cleansing of all my relations, " stated Stone Eagle.

Greenpeace and the Sierra Club signed a deal that would set aside a few protected areas but log the rest of the eco-system. Local people were convinced that they were close to having the whole of Clayoquot Sound designated as a protected area as it is one of the last remaining intact old growths forests.

Stone Eagle headed the First Nations Environmental Network for five years. The FNEN is a national organization of individuals and groups who work to protect the Mother Earth. From low level flights over Labrador to old growth in Temegami, Ontario to Canoe Narrows, Sask to Clayoquot Sound - FNEN members have stood up to protect what little is left of the originality of this land. And they have sought to create alliances with non-native environmentalists. " I have tried to maintain an optimistic view that we can indeed work together as people of the four Sacred directions," explained Stone Eagle, " I did this because I have always been convinced that the environmental community had some genuine, sincere and devoted people."

After five years of trying to create honest working relationships with non-natives, Stone Eagle stepped down to return to the campaign of protecting the Mi'Kmaq Sacred Kluscap Mountain in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Stone Eagle wishes to notify Greenpeace and the Sierra Club to please withhold or refrain from offering their support, assistance or capitalizing on their struggle to protect their Sacred Mountain - just in case there is still a bounty on Mi'Kmaq First Nations scalps.