Bonnie, Chrissie and Adrian Swain. Young women from Grassy Narrows have been critical to the fight against clear-cutting.
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A community member advises the driver that a traditional hunt will be displacing logging operations
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Sign that marks the centre of the Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinaabe territory.
Credit: David Sone / Rainforest Action Network
Okiijita stands by the roadside in view of passing trucks. Slant Lake, December 2002
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
School children do posters
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Chrissy and Bonnie Swain singing at the blocade. 17 April 2007
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Permits for logging are issued by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), often with inadequate protection for Indigenous rights.
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Roberta Kessik
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Roberta Kessik, Grassy Narrows grandmother and trapper
"The clear-cutting of the land and the destruction of the forest is an attack on our people. The land is the basis of who we are. Our culture is a land-based culture and the destruction of the land is the destruction of our culture"