Matteo Cimellaro

Friendship centres, which serve the needs of urban Indigenous people, are increasingly important in responding to climate disasters.

Friendship centres, which serve the needs of urban Indigenous people, are increasingly important in responding to climate disasters.

“Aamjiwnaang will no longer be known as the community that is a victim of Chemical Valley, but we will be known for our environmental leadership,” said Nahmabin, elected in September of 2024.

At a celebration in Behchokǫ̀, about 100 km northwest of Yellowknife, Dene and Métis leadership and citizens were joined by territorial and federal leaders as $375 million in support was announced for Indigenous-led conservation efforts across the territory. The funds will expand and develop guardian programs, help establish new protected areas and further land-based culture and language revitalization programs.

Leaders of Coastal First Nations are on the ground in Azerbaijan to line up Asian buyers for their Indigenous-led gas exports from LNG facilities under development in British Columbia.

A clean energy revolution in a Prince Edward Island First Nation was started by one small solar panel system atop the community's school.

This week as Canada's National Observer toured the refineries at the doorstep of Aamjiwaang First Nation, rotten egg and acrid chemical smells wafted over children playing ball hockey nearby. Air monitoring data revealed another spike of sulphur dioxide on Nov. 26, reaching 300 parts per billion — a level more than four times higher than the maximum hourly concentrations set by the federal government . Just another day in Chemical Valley.

The encounter between Mamgark and the tourists is where the real and practical world of the North confronts an idealized and romanticized Arctic. It's an imaginary Arctic, part of an image sold for southerners' consumption.

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