http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/15994/0 en http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/grassy-narrows-blockade-2002-2016/35237 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/slant_lake_blockade_art_0.jpg" alt="" title="Art Credit: Sylvia Nickerson: http://sylvianickerson.ca/" width="450" height="443" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">December 2nd, 2002 was a freezing day. &nbsp;It was the day our people desperately began blocking logging trucks, which were there to cut massive stands of our forest. Our trees were here one day and gone the next. The Anishinaabek have been closely tied to the land and water since time immemorial.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/grassy-narrows-blockade-2002-2016/35237" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Judy Da Silva Indigenous Mon, 30 May 2016 16:44:14 +0000 Arielle Friedman 35237 at http://dominion.mediacoop.ca