Indigenous voices need to be heard in the climate fight

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“The connection between the people and the land is the same as being connected to another human being.”

” as its word of the year. But as effective as such gestures have been in bringing the matter to mass attention, most of us are a little bit late to the party.

Still from 'Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance'. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin. Photo Credit: Shaney Komulainen “From the railroad industry a while ago to housing and other resource-related developments today, Canada’s prosperity has always been based on resource exploitation. They’d rather call us violent radicals, while, in truth, the country assumed sovereignty over our lands,” she says. “It’s a violation of what belongs to us, the land.”

 

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