Water is one of the resources on earth. People on earth relies on it. "If there is life in a planet, there must be water."
Between 1962 and 1970, the company dumped an estimated 9,000 kg of untreated mercury into the English-Wabigoon river system, upstream from Grassy Narrows and Whitedog First Nations. According to researches from CBC, the river is still proved to be extremely poisonous and can cause deaths. A girl lost her life at a young age of 14 due to the poisonous matters that were released from the river.
Art work:
'Water in life" is an art work from an indigenous visual artist Christi Belcourt in May 2018. It was launched to bring awareness for the protection of the water that give us life.
"Water sprits" is an art work from an indigenous artist Jackie Traverse in year 2015. The art work leaves us messages about her journey in her life. What she wants to bring out is we are connected and united to life with water, and we are also all united by water.
"Unceded Territories" is an art work from Lawrence Yuxweluptun in year 2019. It combined technology into the work to let it more interesting. In this work, it showed the conversation between the man on the land and the whale in the sea. The painting encourages us to review on the relationships between animals , us and the natural world.
Article :
The article "Keep It in the Ground!" is written by Sakihitowin Awasis in 7th August 2017. "The water is our mother." she stated. "The future of humanity depends on the health of the water, and the health of the water depends on the environment. But the activities the human is doing is damaging the earth. The biggest example is Pipeline construction."
Book :
Nibi's water song - Sunshine Tenasco
Nibi is an Indigenous girl on the search for clean water to drink. Though she is faced with repeated difficulties, Nibi's joyful and determination becomes an energy that changes her community. Finally, her country and government rally around her to make clean drinking water available for all. The message under this book is even when a problem seems too large to face, every bit that everyone does helps.
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