Life against States of Emergency : Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat Northwest Coast Archival photographs & colour images

Archival photographs & colour images

Murdena Marshall

linguistic and literary heritage

Audience: Ages 3-7

Life against States of Emergency : Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat Northwest Coast Archival photographs & colour imagesBy Sarah Marie Wiebe, with a Foreword by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows, Anishinaabe and a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation in Ontario. For six weeks in 201213, Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence undertook a high profile ceremonial fast to advocate for improved Canadian Indigenous relations. Life against States of Emergency responds to the central question she asked the Canadian public to consider: What does it mean to be in a treaty