On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas
Part One: Dispossession at Home
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In Chapter 5, author Ingrid Waldron examines the success of the grassroots activism of the Mi’kmaq grandmothers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia who successfully stopped the Alton Gas project. The chapter discusses topics including the Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative (kmkno), Treaty Rights and Aboriginal Title, the Indigenous dispossession in Nova Scotia, Grassroot activism, and environmental racism in Indigenous communities across Canada.
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Ingrid Waldron
Ingrid Waldron is a professor and hope Chair in Peace and Health in the Global Peace and Social Justice Program in the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University. Her research, teaching, and community advocacy work focus on the social, political, and health effects of environmental racism and climate change inequities, mental illness, covid-19 and other health disparities in Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and refugee communities in Canada. She is the author of There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities (Fernwood), which was turned into a 2020 Netflix documentary of the same name and was co-produced by Waldron, actor Elliot Page, Ian Daniel, and Julia Sanderson, and directed by Page and Daniel.
