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memara@fortfrances.com
A residential school survivor, a master of many trades and an astound believer in the importance of bridging cultures. Dick Bird, 88, born and raised on Couchiching First Nation, always had more than one job to support his family of five. A family that is now his main source of pride.
“I went to a residential school,” Bird said. “I couldn’t wait to get out of there and I left school when I was 16 and went to work. We were incarcerated. It was regimented.”
Bird attended the school from 1940 until 1948, and left after the Second World War had ended. He said that time after the war was tough on everybody, especially on the reserve. Despite the scarcity of resources, Bird managed to have fun with his friends and his father, who he never came to accept until he was 13 years old.
Minnesota court affirms Enbridge Line 3
Water protectors vow to continue the fight against controversial pipeline project
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Jun 14, 2021
Sections of pipe await placement near Grand Rapids, Minnesota for the Enbridge Line 3 project. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today)
Water protectors vow to continue the fight against controversial pipeline project
Mary Annette Pember
The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed state regulators’ key approvals of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project, in a dispute that drew more than 1,000 water protectors opposing the project last week.
A three-judge panel concluded 2-1 that the state’s independent Public Utilities Commission correctly granted Enbridge the certificate of need and route permit that the Canadian-based company needed to begin construction on the 337-mile Minnesota segment of Line 3.
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Staff Writer
memara@fortfrances.com
On Monday about 100 individuals gathered at the site of the former residential school in Fort Frances to support their neighbours in B.C. after the remains of 215 children were discovered at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops.
The discovery was made on Thursday when Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said in a statement that with the help of ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light. This was the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline construction is running into tribal resistance over fears of water pollution, wild rice impacts, climate change, and exploitation of Native women.