Voices from Wollaston Lake
Resistance Against Uranium Mining and Genocide in Northern Saskatchewan
Goldstick, Miles
Publisher: Earth Embassy and the World Information Service on Energy (WISE)
Year Published: 1987
Pages: 320pp Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX24702
A book documenting the impact of uranium mining on the people and land of northern Saskatchewan, Canada.
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"Voices from Wollaston Lake" chronicles the progression of events at the blockade and proceeding gathering through pictures and quotations; and it movingly portrays the growing unity amongst diverse peoples concerned about the land and future generations. The focus of the book is the small Indian community of Wollaston Lake, and the Rabbit Lake/Collin's Bay uranium mines only 40 km away. The uranium industry is more active in northern Saskatchewan than any other place in the western world. For the native people of the area it is the dominant force continuing the destructive momentum built up over 300 years of colonialism. If the present trend continues, the result will be genocide. Mining and exploration are taking place through native land claims and aboriginal rights have not been settled.
Chapters titled "The People" and "The Mines", contrast two very different relationships to the Earth: dominance and destruction of the land by the uranium mines versus Indian people trying to live in harmony with their surroundings. Faced with ever increasing quantities of radioactive waste being dumped into Wollaston Lake, in the summer of 1985 the people of Wollaston Lake community hosted an unprecedented protest. From June 14-17 all traffic in and out of the Rabbit Lake and Collin's Bay uranium mines was blocked for 80 hours.
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