Permits for logging are issued by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), often with inadequate protection for Indigenous rights.
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Andrew Kewaatin, a trapper at Grassy Narrows, has been writing to government officials for almost a decade to ask that his rights be respected.
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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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Bonnie, Chrissie and Adrian Swain. Young women from Grassy Narrows have been critical to the fight against clear-cutting.
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Chrissy Swain at a “roving” blocade.
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Site of the Slant Lake blockade. 17 April 2007
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Chrissy and Bonnie Swain singing at the blocade. 17 April 2007
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When a clear-cut is re-planted, it grows back as a tree farm to be cut again, not as a forest. Animals and vegetation do not return.
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