Grassy Narrows residents allow logging trucks to leave the forest, but not to enter. Slant Lake
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Judy Da Silva and Roberta Keesick share front-line stories from blockade and the struggle to stop clear-cut logging on their traditional territory.
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Chrissy Swain at a “roving” blocade.
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Bonnie, Chrissie and Adrian Swain. Young women from Grassy Narrows have been critical to the fight against clear-cutting.
Credit: Amnesty International
Chrissy and Bonnie Swain singing at the blocade. 17 April 2007
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OPP Officer interacts with high school students.Slant Lake, 3 December 2002
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Site of the Slant Lake blockade. 17 April 2007
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Wood logged from Grassy Narrows by Abitibi is transferred to Weyerhaeuser's iLevel mill in Kenora and made into an engineered wood product used widely in construction.
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Chronology of Events: 1990s
During the 1990's, Canadian logging company Abitibi Consolidated dramatically increased their logging on the Whiskey Jack Forest, an area that falls within Grassy Narrows' traditional territory. Large-scale logging has destroyed trap lines and eliminated berry and medicine patches. Weyerhaeuser is the sole purchaser of hardwood from Grassy Narrows territory, purchasing the wood for its Kenora Timberstrand mill.