This document discusses the importance of water to Anishinaabe people and contains three quotes: 1) Fred Ackley says that just because land contains gold it doesn't need to be mined, as you can't eat gold, and Anishinaabe people look out for water as others once looked out for them. 2) Mary Moose says "What we do to the water, we do to ourselves." 3) Josephine Mandamin says water has a spirit and is very precious, and that as women they are protectors of water and life-givers, so they must respect mother earth and water.