Current Problems

Treaties and Land Claims

Grassy Narrows Land Declaration

November 15, 2021

Toronto Star – The government was knowingly using an outdated and inaccurate map (30 years old), members of First Nations charge, green-lighting drilling and excavation areas where the residents say they go for moose hunting, picking berries and camping. The First Nations says it has provided the government with an updated map of the area – what is now called an Indigenous Sovereignty and Protected Area – multiple times over the last decade. “Our land and our way of life are already at the breaking point because of the ongoing impacts of residential schools, hydro dams, mercury poisoning and clear-cut logging, said JB Fobister, Grassy Narrows spokesperson.” Mining, he added, would “further fragment and degrade” the environment.