Site of the Slant Lake blockade. 17 April 2007
Credit: Amnesty International
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
A community member advises the driver that a traditional hunt will be displacing logging operations
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
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.
Site of the Slant Lake blockade. 17 April 2007
Credit: Amnesty International
Chrissy Swain at a “roving” blocade.
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Okiijita stands by the roadside in view of passing trucks. Slant Lake, December 2002
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
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."