Grassy Narrows River Run 2024

Grassy Narrows has the longest-running blockade in Canadian history, which has helped foster Indigenous resistance across Turtle Island and saved 15 million trees from being cut. In September 2024, community members and leaders have traveled 1,700km from Grassy Narrows to Toronto to demand that Ontario and Canada: 1. Compensate everyone in Grassy Narrows fairly for the mercury crisis, 2. Respect the Grassy Narrows Indigenous Protected Area (end mining and logging plans in Grassy Narrows territory and keep nuclear waste out of the watershed), and 3. Support Grassy Narrows in restoring their community and way of life from the damage that mercury has done. 0:00 Introduction at Grange Park, Toronto 0:48 Land acknowledgement with Cody Lookinghorse 2:33 Grassy Narrows drumming circle 6:48 Chief Turtle 19:45 Start of the march Recorded in the streets of Toronto, 18 September 2024.