It stops here : standing up for our lands, our waters, and our people / Rueben George, with Mike Simpson.
Material type: TextPublication details: [Toronto] : Allen Lane, 2023.Description: xxiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780735242807 (hardcover)
- George, Rueben
- George, Rueben -- Family
- Indigenous peoples -- Tsleil-Waututh Nation -- Government relations
- Indigenous peoples -- Tsleil-Waututh Nation -- Social conditions
- Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights -- Tsleil-Waututh Nation
- Indigenous peoples of North America
- Petroleum pipelines -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia
- Social justice -- Canada
- 305.897/94 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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300 - 399 | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | Non-fiction | 305.897 GEO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33321003234946 |
Includes index.
It Stops Here is the story of the spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to reclaim their lands, waters, law, and food systems in face of colonization. The book recounts the intergenerational struggle of the Tsleil-Waututh to overcome the harms of colonization and the powerful stance they have taken against the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline -- a fossil fuel megaproject that would triple the capacity of tar sands bitumen piped to tidewater on their unceded territory and result in a sevenfold increase in oil tankers moving through their waters. The book provides a firsthand account of this resurgence as told by one of the most prominent leaders of the widespread opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion -- Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. He has devoted more than a decade of his life to fighting this project and shares stories about his family's deep ancestral connections to these waters that have provided the Tsleil-Waututh.
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