Site of the Slant Lake blockade. 17 April 2007
Credit: Amnesty International
School children do posters
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
A community member advises the driver that a traditional hunt will be displacing logging operations
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Site of the Slant Lake blockade. 17 April 2007
Credit: Amnesty International
Andrew Kewaatin, a trapper at Grassy Narrows, has been writing to government officials for almost a decade to ask that his rights be respected.
Credit: Amnesty International.
Grassy Narrows residents allow logging trucks to leave the forest, but not to enter. Slant Lake
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Permits for logging are issued by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), often with inadequate protection for Indigenous rights.
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Ear Falls Hydro Generating Station
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Chronology of Events: 1950s
During the 1950s Ontario Hydro built two major dams at Ear Falls and Whitedog, causing significant and unpredictable floods disrupting wild rice beds, sacred sites, the habitat of fur-bearing animals and the local fishery of Grassy Narrows.