Chrissy and Bonnie Swain singing at the blocade. 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
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
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
Chrissy Swain
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Chrissy Swain, one of the blockaders from Grassy Narrows
"I grew up hunting, fishing and gathering in the Boreal Forest, If the logging continues my young children will never be able to live their traditional culture and way of life. Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi are annihilating our existence as indigenous people and the McGuinty government refuses to take action. I cannot accept this and I will do what it takes to stop it."