Rita Wong
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About Rita Wong
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.
What I learned about violence in B.C.'s Peace Valley
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.
We can all learn from Wet’suwet’en laws
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.
What next? Restoring Peace against the odds
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.