The First Nations have filed notice with the governments today, alleging Crown officials tricked them into signing over their land in 1905 without their consent.
My Community’s Boil Water Advisory Is Almost as Old as Me
This human rights violation against First Nations has affected an entire generation. And I’ll never take water for granted again.
Valerie Ooshag is an Anishinaabekwe from Eabametoong First Nation. She lives in Ottawa and will start the journalism program at Algonquin College in the fall. She is an intern at The Tyee through the JHR Indigenous Reporters Program. SHARES A new water plant built in 2019 was intended to end the boil water advisories in Eabametoong First Nation. But the community says the design is inadequate and relies on reverse osmosis systems.