The Pines remain a very magical and spiritual part of the environment that I live in and grew up in. That connection to land is just something that you feel inside. And to know that it's being threatened because someone just wants to expand a golf course was frustrating-- that's what was proposed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you know? What was even more insulting is that the developers were going to dig up our family members, our ancestors in our cemetery, to do it! That was just too much. It was an affront to us as Kanienʼkehá:ka. Our community of Kanehsatà:ke has been fighting these kinds of incursions on our lands for three hundred years now.

— When the Pine Needles Fall by Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (Page 9)