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Resistance

  • Algonquin - Barriere Lake
    Barriere Lake Algonquins are resisting the supplantation of their customary governing system, on their unceded territory, by Indian Act band elections imposed by Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl.
  • Anishnaabe - Asubpeeschoseewagong
    Anishnabe of Grassy Narrows First Nation in northeastern Ontario battle clearcut logging and the effects of colonial and industrial invasion of their homeland.
  • Beaver Lake Cree - northeastern Alberta
    "The Beaver Lake Cree, a small, impoverished band of 900 people in eastern Alberta, are suing the Canadian federal and Alberta provincial governments to protect the land. The tar sands are obliterating their traditional hunting and fishing lands in Alberta. The animals, fish, plants and medicine that sustain the Beaver Lake Cree are being destroyed."
  • Coastal First Nations - B.C.
    An alliance of British Columbian First Nations oppose the Enbridge Pipeline and excessive resource extraction in their traditional territories.
  • Gwich'in - Arctic National Wildlife Range
    "The Gwich’in people stand united in our continued efforts to protect the (caribou birthing grounds) from oil and gas development."
  • Gwich'in - Peel River
    "Mining interests are lobbying hard to open up the Peel River watershed to roads and industrial development. The Peel Watershed Planning Commission recommends protecting 80% of this wilderness. Affected First Nations are calling for protection of the entire watershed."
  • Lubicon Lake Cree - Little Buffalo
    The Lubicon Cree Nation is fighting the invasion of their unceded territory by colonial governments and resource extraction companies.
  • St'at'imc - Sutikalh
    The Sutikalh Camp is dedicated to the preservation of the pristine area of the Melvin Creek Valley, also known as Sutikalh or Winter Spirit. Members of the St'at'imc Nation established this permanent camp in 2000 to protest the proposed development of a 500 million dollar ski resort by Nancy Greene Raine and her husband Al Raine (NGR) in the Cayoosh Mountain Range.
  • Tsilhqot'in - Teztan Biny
    "Taseko Mines Ltd. is proposing to develop the Prosperity Mine, a massive open pit gold and copper mine, deep within the traditional territory of the Tsilhqot'in Nation. The proposed mine's two kilometer-wide open pit, tailings pond, waste rock piles, roads, and transmission lines would destroy an entire sub-alpine ecosystem, and most importantly Teztan Biny, a lake sacred to the Tsilhqot'in Nation, and known to others as Fish Lake."
  • Yup'ik - Bristol Bay, Alaska
    Native and non-native Alaskans oppose the proposed Pebble gold and copper mine in the headwaters of one of the most productive salmon spawning areas in North America.

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February 2011

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Feat. Site: Our Bristol Bay, Alaska

From Our Bristol Bay:

Local Alaskans. Photo by Matt DavidsonPhoto by Matt Davidson.

 
   "More than anything else, Bristol Bay is about salmon, on which everything ­- communities, jobs, and the health of the entire ecosystem from grizzlies on down the food chain ­- depend. Salmon support thriving commercial and sport fishing industries as well as traditional subsistence ways of life.

Yet plans for large-scale mineral development, such as the Pebble gold and copper mine in the headwaters of the bay¹s best wild salmon rivers, could change this place forever."

 

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Site of the Week - No Fracking on Blood Land

Protectbloodland.ca is set up to oppose the Blood Tribe's leadership decision to allow a process for drilling for gas, called "fracking", on 50% of their land without the informed consent of their citizens. Take a look and find out what fracking is and why protectbloodland.ca is concerned about this development. I like the Take Action page which allows for your help by providing links for signing a petition, and makes suggestions for minimizing our dependancy on oil and gas, which I wholeheartedly endorse.

 

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Sitting Eagle


Sitting Eagle, originally uploaded by b_cdn.

This statue is a familiar landmark in downtown Calgary. I remember riding by it all the time when I was a bike messenger.

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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

On Now @ the MAG

My work is included in two shows on now at the Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery. AFA's travelling exhibition Narrative Quest, featuring a selection of artworks by aboriginal artists, including my painting Magpie, is on now through April 3. Accompanying Narrative Quest is an exhibition of artworks from the museum's collection, and includes several Freedom Fighter paintings. For more info on what's on at the MAG, go here.

Magpie
 

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