Category:  community member piece

Little Limestone Land Learning: My First Land Camp
Sep . 28 . 2022 B.M Mangeli 0 Comment community member piece, traditional ecological knowledge, Uncategorized

By: Ashley WolfeOn our first morning, Bobbie Mangeli and I made our way to the Little Limestone Camp, located about forty-five minutes north of Grand Rapids, Manitoba. On our way up, Bobbie was able to see her first house being moved by truck, which took up both lanes of the highway.We were greeted in camp by our Wa Ni Ska Tan contact Gail Ledoux, and her wonderful family and community. Our Elders

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Book Launch Event Review
Jun . 22 . 2022 B.M Mangeli 0 Comment community member piece, Environmental Assessment, Keeyask

By Mathew Scammell On May 17th, 2022, my colleagues and I attended a book launch presentation for the edited collection In Our Backyard: Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development where the co-editors Aimée Craft and Jill Blakley were joined by Councillor Robert Spence for a casual conversation about its contents. There was a mixture of emotions evoked by the words of each presente

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The Kaptai Dam part one: A brief history
Jun . 22 . 2022 B.M Mangeli 0 Comment community member piece, socio-economic, Uncategorized

by Soumik Deb Simanto As a student researcher at the Environmental Conservation Lab and an avid Bangladeshi, I am pleased to be studying the social, cultural, and environmental impacts ignited by the Kaptai Dam in the Karnaphuli River. The dam was, and still is a matter of concern in that region and a nightmare for the Indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The People fought against t

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Solar Power Pilot Project
Feb . 22 . 2022 B.M Mangeli 0 Comment alternative energy, community member piece

by Dylan Kensick & Taylor Galvin The solar power system allows us to have AC electricity within our off-grid home. The 3 main components of the system are the solar panel, charge controller system, and the batteries. The charge controller system and the batteries are in a specific location inside our house, the solar panel is mounted on the ground in our yard. The solar panel is rated to 33

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Memories from Sturgeon Narrows
Jan . 25 . 2022 B.M Mangeli 0 Comment Churchill River Diversion, community member piece

by Angela Levasseur (nee Busch) Sunday, January 16, 2022 One of my fondest memories from childhood was spending time with my maternal aunt, Myrtle Dysart (nee Spence), and my uncle, (her husband) Donald Dysart Sr. I call them Mom and Dad, in keeping with our matriarchal and matrilineal Nehetho[1]/Ithiniw[2] culture; my mother’s sisters are my ‘mothers’, and her brothers are my ‘fathe

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