Judy Da Silva and Roberta Keesick share front-line stories from blockade and the struggle to stop clear-cut logging on their traditional territory.
Credit: David Sone / Rainforest Action Network
Chrissy Swain at a “roving” blocade.
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
Chrissy and Bonnie Swain singing at the blocade. 17 April 2007
Credit: Amnesty International
Sign that marks the centre of the Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinaabe territory.
Credit: David Sone / Rainforest Action Network
Bonnie, Chrissie and Adrian Swain. Young women from Grassy Narrows have been critical to the fight against clear-cutting.
Credit: Amnesty International
A trap line devastated by clear-cutting. 16 April 2007
Credit: Amnesty International
Chronology of Events: 2007
January 17th: Grassy Narrows community leaders declared a moratorium on further industrial activity within their traditional territory carried without community consent.
March 8th: In an interview with the media March 8th 2007, Ontario Natural Resources Minister David Ramsay suggested the decision on reallocating the wood rights from the closed Abitibi Mill had been delayed over "concerns about providing certainty for the wood supply", and the issues related to First Nations concerns. Ramsay says he hopes to have a decision on wood rights "within weeks."