Indigenous prisoners of conscience

Earlier this week 6 political leaders of the Indigenous Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation were sentenced to 6 months in jail for refusing to allow mining and exploration on their traditional lands. KI councilor Cecilia Begg, the only woman among the KI six, is now all alone in the Thunder Bay District jail, a notorious [...]

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Grassy Narrows women take action

Last week women from Grassy went out to the edges of their land, near where some cutting of the forest is still taking place. One of the women sent out this statement: We will go there to feel a little bit of the suffering the land is feeling. We will go there to feel the [...]

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Caribou to OfficeMax: Support the Moratorium in Grassy Narrows!

A herd of 11 caribou migrated to OfficeMax in San Francisco today in search of their destroyed forest habitat and demanded that OfficeMax executives support the Grassy Narrows First Nation’s call for a logging moratorium on their traditional territory. The caribou began their visit to OfficeMax by continuing their migration inside the store, to the [...]

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