I found time to grab some new photos of local Grandfather Rocks over the holiday weekend:
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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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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Big Rock Photo Gallery
I've been on Flickr viewing other members' photos of the Big Rock, and, being a geek for large boulders, assembled a few of the best into a gallery page. Let me know what you think of the pics, or vote for your favourite.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Split Rock
Split Rock, sitting in a coulee overlooking Nose Creek in Calgary's northeast. There are archeological sites in this immediate area, and I'm sure I read somewhere that there's paintings on the rock, but I couldn't see any. Napikowan says a glacier brought this from Jasper and left it here, and now it watches 747's coming and going from Calgary International.
More pics @ b cdn on flickr.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Big Rock River Valley
What a beautiful day in Blackfoot country! Today I went for a walk to the cliffs north of town. The sky was a clear blue and the temperatures warm for March. Even though the Prairie People no longer control this area, you can't help but think of their long history east of the Rockies when you look at the landscape, such as these cliffs which were used as a piskun, or buffalo jump. This particular piskun faces west, which I'm told is unusual (the famous world heritage site, Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump near Fort Macleod, faces east), and overlooks the Sheep River, or Ohkotoksiitahtayi, the "Rock River" in Blackfoot. They named the river for the Big Rock, west of the Town of Okotoks, which is still a part of contemporary Blackfoot culture. Below the jump there are flats along the river, which may have been good camping after a successful hunt, with firewood and fresh water near at hand. You can also see the snowcapped Shining Mountains, or the Rockies, gleaming in the west. Unfortunately modern civilization's contribution to this site includes an old sewage lagoon and town disposal site, but even those can be ignored on a day like today.
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