THIS LAND IS OUR LAND

摘要

THE MISIPAWISTIK CREE NATION is located in country so beautiful that the Canadian government considered making it a national park for decades. This boreal-forest region-also home to three other First Nations-is studded with white-sand beaches, limestone cliffs, and a lake that turns brilliant turquoise in warm weather. A national park could benefit the region: blocking mining claims, freeing up money to restore landscapes damaged by a century of logging and hy-dropower, and paying for basic services like garbage pickup-cars dump trash by the side of the road, and that turquoise lake doesn't have a single trash can nearby. But in the mid-2000s, when Manitoba Lowlands National Park was close to becoming a reality, the Misipawistik Cree halted negotiations.