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Ms. Que Banh<p>My personal <a href="https://beige.party/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ReadingGoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingGoal</span></a> this year is to find &amp; read every book that Richard Wagamese wrote. I have read 3 of his books so far &amp; loved them. He's one of my fave <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> authors in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>.</p><p>Richard Wagamese was one of Canada’s foremost <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAuthors</span></a> &amp; esteemed public speaker &amp; <a href="https://beige.party/tags/storyteller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storyteller</span></a>. A professional writer since 1979, he was a newspaper columnist &amp; reporter, radio &amp; television broadcaster &amp; producer, documentary producer &amp; author of 14 titles from various <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canadian</span></a> publishers.</p><p>He was a success in every genre of writing he tried. An <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ojibway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ojibway</span></a> from the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Wabaseemoong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wabaseemoong</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> in Northwestern <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a>, he became the first <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeCanadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeCanadian</span></a> to win a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing in 1991. He won the Alberta Writers Guild Best Novel Award for his debut novel,&nbsp;Keeper’n Me&nbsp;in 1994 &amp; the Canadian&nbsp;Authors Association Award for Fiction for his third novel&nbsp;Dream Wheels, in 2007. One Native Life&nbsp;was one of&nbsp;The Globe &amp; Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2008 &amp;&nbsp;One Story, One Song&nbsp;was awarded the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature in 2011.</p><p>Indian Horse, the feature film, is based on his book of the same title.</p><p>If you haven't read any of his books yet, I highly recommend finding them at your local library 👍📚</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>‘We want the mill to shut down,’ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrassyNarrows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrassyNarrows</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a> </p><p>After nearly 60 years of industrial poisoning, the northwest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> community continues to demand justice</p><p>September 17 2024 <br>by Jon Thompson</p><p>"When members of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Asubpeeschoseewagong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asubpeeschoseewagong</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anishinabek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anishinabek</span></a> (Grassy Narrows First Nation) and their supporters arrive at Queen’s Park this week, they’ll be calling for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrydenPulpAndPaper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrydenPulpAndPaper</span></a> mill that’s been poisoning their water with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neurotoxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurotoxins</span></a> for nearly 60 years to permanently close. </p><p>"'We want everybody to be compensated, we want the mill to shut down, and we don’t want no <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logging</span></a> in our territory. We just want it all to stop,' says <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChrissyIsaacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrissyIsaacs</span></a>, lead organizer of the caravan.</p><p>"Isaacs has been a staple of the annual <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiverRun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RiverRun</span></a> demonstrations since they began in 2010. She was a leader among Grassy Narrows youths who blockaded <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LoggingTrucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingTrucks</span></a> from entering the nearby <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiskeyJackForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiskeyJackForest</span></a> in 2002 and is currently travelling 1,900 kilometres to Toronto from her community near Ontario’s western border to protest the downriver effects of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/methylmercury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>methylmercury</span></a> poisoning.</p><p>"Staff at the upstream <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReedPaperMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReedPaperMill</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrydenOntario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrydenOntario</span></a>, about 150 kilometres east of Grassy Narrows, dumped nearly 10 metric tonnes of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mercury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mercury</span></a> into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnglishWabigoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishWabigoon</span></a> River system in the 1960s and early 1970s. Mercury poisoned the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fish</span></a> that the people of Grassy Narrows, and neighbouring <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabaseemoong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wabaseemoong</span></a> Independent Nation, were consuming.</p><p>"A half-century later, medical experts are finding that varying nervous and neurological health effects affect up to 90 per cent of Grassy Narrows residents. </p><p>Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation stopped to demonstrate outside of the Dryden mill before heading to Toronto for the annual River Run demonstration at Queen’s Park. There, they will call on the Ontario government to compensate the community for generations of industrial poisoning and call for the mill, now owned by First Quality Enterprises, to be shut down.</p><p>"The Grassy Narrows road blockade to prevent clear-cut logging and mining from happening in their traditional territories has stood for 22 years, and in that time Isaacs’s children have had children of their own. She says the conversation has never been transformed as much as it has this year. </p><p>"In May, scientific researchers released the revelation that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sulphate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sulphate</span></a> and organic matter in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/effluent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>effluent</span></a> that the mill is still releasing into the river is making methylmercury in the river system even worse, as opposed to diminishing over time as they were told."</p><p><a href="https://ricochet.media/indigenous/we-want-the-mill-to-shut-down-grassy-narrows-first-nation-to-ontario/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ricochet.media/indigenous/we-w</span><span class="invisible">ant-the-mill-to-shut-down-grassy-narrows-first-nation-to-ontario/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MercuryPoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MercuryPoisoning</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InformedConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanadaFirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanadaFirstNations</span></a></p>