Grassy Narrows youth are building two new cabins at the Slant Lake blockade site.  The cabins will be used for hunting, fishing, and housing elders, guests, and community members who visit the blockade.  The cabin building is part of a process of reclamation and revival for Grassy Narrows where people are using the land on […]

Some Weyerhaeuser iLevel products contain low levels of formaldehyde, a chemical that the U.S. government’s National Toxicology Program Report on Carcinogens recently listed formaldehyde as “known to be a human carcinogen” following a “rigorous scientific review.

Grassroots women are blocking Segise Road to keep Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) enforcement officers out, so that the community can repair a bridge used to access the territory. The government had said they will only allow the road to be repaired if the community agrees to logging on the territory, but under increasing pressure […]

  IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday May 31, 2011 Grassy Narrows women block MNR enforcement team MNR seeking to stop repairs to only alternate emergency route out of the community Asubpeeschoseewagong –  Grassy Narrows' high profile logging blockade saw action again today as grassroots women blocked passage for Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR ) enforcement officers interfering […]

  ACTION ALERT  Grassy Narrows grassroots women are blocking the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) from accessing their territory!  Call the MNR Kenora office to express your support: (807) 468-2501 Some points to make: 1.  Respect the rights and safety of the Grassy Narrows women.    2.  Stop threatening work crews repairing the Segeisse road.  It […]