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Berens River First Nation, Canada

"Our treaty rights have been infringed upon. Our people can no longer fish where their ancestors fished. Our medicines no longer grow where grandmothers once harvested...this is not only a legal matter. It is moral and it's a spiritual one. The land is our life, the water is our spirit. We are not here as victims, we are here as protesters, as leaders and as treaty partners demanding justice." -Chief Hartley Everett of Berens River First Nation on Manitoba Hydro's Lake Winnipeg Regulation project. Photo credit: Berens River First Nation (Ojibwe: Mememwi-ziibiing)