A poet-scholar who has written several books of poetry, Rita Wong has also co-edited, with Dorothy Christian, an anthology entitled Downstream: Remaining Water (Wilfrid Laurier University Press). She lives, works and strives for water justice on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh First Nations.
Each July for the past five years, I have made a pilgrimage to a sacred site: the Peace Valley in Treaty 8 territory, the ancestral lands of the Dunne-za and Cree people.
The determination of the Wet'suweten First Nation to defend their land against resource extraction offers a lesson for us all, Rita Wong writes after a recent visit to the remote BC site of their protest.
Premier Horgan announced in December that his government would proceed with the Site C dam, increasing its budget by more than 2 billion dollars despite having opposed it before.
