The failure to acknowledge that people depended on the resources connected to these lakes and rivers, or indeed to understand the existence of a traditional worldview that emphasizes the connectivity of creation was a significant way that the government officials compromised Serpent River First Nation community wellness in the name of promoting economic success. [...] Gertrude Lewis saw these two concepts as being intimately linked, and in her mind the health of the community was tied together with the fires, the dust, the smells, and the larger history of the community and its colonial relationship with DIA. [...] In the meantime, numerous studies were conducted to ascertain the health of the land and water in the community, and community leadership continued to lobby the government for a proper cleanup. [...] That fall before the snow fell, the community moved approximately 26 truckloads of waste from the acid plant to the edge of the Trans-Canada Highway and directed a sign outlining DIA's role in the establishment of the plant and its hesitation to provide funding for waste removal. [...] I know in my work in the 80s and the 90s, it was just so terrible to be trying to be saying, yes, but maybe the most obvious and simplest answer is the correct answer rather than trying to always have to prove through a back door in 16 different studies, only to arrive at the first conclusion to begin with and have wasted years, decades, and time doing research that was only to alleviate the burde.
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- Webinar Pathways to Indigenous Health - 1
- Cold war uranium mining and its impact on land water and Anishinaabe wellness 1
- This webinar examines treaty relations and the politics of life including 1
- Learn about Indigenous views of wellness and connections to territory Understand how extractive practices compromised Anishinaabe land and 1
- Consider the ways Anishinaabe leaders confronted and resisted extractive 1
- Learn about Indigenous historical methods 1
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- Serpent River Resurgence Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake 1
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