[news] Surviving Canada Report: Grassy Narrows

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Macdonald Stainsby "Many years before the arrival of the white man to the land of the Anishinabe Nation, there was a prophecy that when the white people arrived they would bring with them the destruction of the forests and the land that sustains the Anishinabe people. When the corporation Abitibi started to carry out their illegally obtained logging contracts in the latter half of the 1980's, the sounds of the machines were enough to cause great concern for many of the elders. After years of ecological damage started to take very serious tolls on the Anishinabe population living in Grassy Narrows, by 1996 members of the nation decided that it was time to try and do something about it."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/2/17525/58232