A community member advises the driver that a traditional hunt will be displacing logging operations
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Chrissy and Bonnie Swain singing at the blocade. 17 April 2007
Credit: Amnesty International
Site of the Slant Lake blockade. 17 April 2007
Credit: Amnesty International
Sign that marks the centre of the Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinaabe territory.
Credit: David Sone / Rainforest Action Network
OPP Officer interacts with high school students.Slant Lake, 3 December 2002
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Grassy Narrows residents allow logging trucks to leave the forest, but not to enter. Slant Lake
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Chrissy Swain at a “roving” blocade.
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Truck blocking a road at Slant Lake. December 2002
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Chronology of Events: 2002
On December 2nd, 2002 the youth of the Grassy Narrows First Nation laid down in the path of industrial logging machines — blocking access to their traditional territory. Their action sparked the longest standing Indigenous logging blockade in Canadian history, and is currently still standing in its fifth year.