Okiijita stands by the roadside in view of passing trucks. Slant Lake, December 2002
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
Bonnie, Chrissie and Adrian Swain. Young women from Grassy Narrows have been critical to the fight against clear-cutting.
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
Chrissy Swain
Credit: © Amnesty International
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."