School children do posters
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Sign that marks the centre of the Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinaabe territory.
Credit: David Sone / Rainforest Action Network
Site of the Slant Lake blockade. 17 April 2007
Credit: Amnesty International
Okiijita stands by the roadside in view of passing trucks. Slant Lake, December 2002
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
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
Grassy Narrows residents allow logging trucks to leave the forest, but not to enter. Slant Lake
Credit: Christian Peacemaker Teams
Roberta Kessik
Credit: © Amnesty International
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"