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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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November 2011

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Red Cross to Help Attawapiskat

Canada Red Cross is mobilizing to help the northern community of Attawapiskat, which has been in a state of emergency for at least three weeks due to an extreme housing and water shortage. Up til now, Attawapiskat has received little to no response from the provincial or federal governments, despite the deplorable conditions and plummeting temperatures.

Attawapiskat is also infamous for being without a school for the past twelve years. The community's children have petitioned the Canadian Government for a school that meets the needs of its 400 students.

For more information on the Red Cross's efforts, click here.

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Narrative Quest @ The RAM

The Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton is currently hosting the Alberta Foundation for the Arts' travelling exhibition Narrative Quest. The exhibition features a selection of artworks by 22 Aboriginal artists included in the AFA's collection, including yours truly. The show runs until April 29, 2012.

Magpie detail

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