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Garry Raven: Open Response

Ahnee,

As an Elder and a pipe carrier the lands on the Eastside of Lake Winnipeg is sacred. It is the place where the Creator sits, where we get our teachings, hold our ceremonies, have our sweat lodges, a place to pick our sacred medicines and where we still hunt, … Continue Reading

Paul Chief

A Response to the Wabanong Nakaygum Okimawin (WNO)

Written by C. Hunnie

Paul Chief, a member of Brokenhead First Nation, is a committed and active citizen on issues that affect First Nations. The list of the many projects he has been involved with is extensive. He has sat on the … Continue Reading

Garry Raven

C. Hunnie

Garry Raven of Hollow Water First Nation has spent over seventeen years as a teacher and caretaker of the land. His responsibilities lie here, so naturally he needed to build a learning centre, and started – what may seem an unlikely classroom — his own outfitting company. People … Continue Reading

Sophia Rabliauskas

Boreal Forest Activist Receives Order of Manitoba

By Chris Webb (Reprinted with the permission of the Drum)

In 2004, residents of Poplar River First Nation convinced the Manitoba Government to stop all mining and logging on their traditional land, 600km northeast of Winnipeg, for the next five years. Sophia Rabliauskas … Continue Reading

Garry Raven: Eastside Lake Winnipeg

Elders and Pipe carriers gather to draw awareness on the importance of

Reprinted with the permission of EAST Inc. Written by Björk Bjarnadóttir

Recent attempts to lobby the government of Manitoba to reverse it’s decision on BiPole III lead Eastside Elder and Pipe Carrier, Garry ”Morning Star” Raven, Bald Eagle … Continue Reading

Sophia Bittern Rabliauskas

Interview By Billy Granger

In 2002, when I was working as the assistant director for the Wilderness Committee’s Manitoba office, the east side of Lake Winnipeg had already been established as an important battleground for competing interests. Industry, government, First Nations, environmentalists, and other non-profits anted in with funded efforts … Continue Reading

Here We Go Again – An Interview with William Young

“Here we go again,” says William Young, former Chief of Bloodvein First Nation, through a somewhat disparaged chuckle as he tells me about a recent visit from Manitoba Hydro to his community. The crown corporation recently made it known that they wanted to run a long transmission line, Bi-Pole III, … Continue Reading

Bloodvein River First Nation joins efforts to protect Boreal Forest through World Heritage Site

Bloodvein River First Nation has joined the quest for a World Heritage Site on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. As an active member of Pimachiowin Aki – a unique partnership to safeguard the Anishinabe culture and the boreal forest – Bloodvein River First Nation joins the First Nations of … Continue Reading

The Dominion Article – Dam Locally, Warm Globally

Dam Locally, Warm Globally

Boreal forest, aboriginal peoples threatened by new push for exploitation

Around 400 kilometers north of Winnipeg lies Asatiwisipe Aki (Poplar River First Nation), an Ojibway people. The remote community is comprised of roughly 1,200 members, of which over 900 are on reserve. The traditional Asatiwisipe Aki … Continue Reading