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Grassy Narrows and Corporate Dispossession of Indigenous Waterways

Part One: Dispossession at Home

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In Chapter 6, author Veldon Coburn examines the destruction of the English-Wabigoon River system in Northern Ontario for colonial capital. The chapter examines the history of colonial extraction in Canada and Northern Ontario, “accumulation by contamination,” Indigenous nations as sites for off-loading environmental costs and damages, the contamination of the English-Wabigoon river system, and the decimation of the forest in Ojibwe territory.

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Veldon Coburn

Veldon Coburn is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies. Veldon is Anishinaabe, a member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn. Veldon’s primary research focus is on Indigenous politics and policy in Canada with particular emphasis on political and economic theory.