Stories of courage from the Mi’kmaw Grandmothers
In this Story of Courage, the Mi’kmaw Grandmothers recount their struggle for the protection of Mother Earth against the Alton Gas project in the Province of Nova Scotia.
https://scalar.usc.edu/works/mere-hub/the-mikmaw-grandmothers-and-alton-gas
The video was recorded by the Mi’kmaw Grandmothers in 2020 and edited by Jessica Hum.
The Stories of Courage are available on Mother Earth and Resource Extraction: Women Defending Land and Water (MERE Hub, for short), a digital platform created for and in consultation with women land defenders.
The report and Stories of Courage that center the land defense stories of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq Grandmothers are the outcome of a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant awarded to KAIROS and Sherry Pictou in 2019. As well, the development of MERE Hub itself was an outcome of this collaboration.
Jessica would like to thank the Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq Grandmothers, Sherry Pictou, Janet Conway, Angela Day, KAIROS Canada, SSHRC, Dalhousie University, and Mount St. Vincent University.
For more on the Mi’kmaw Grandmothers and the Alton Gas project, read the report “Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq Grandmothers - Land/Water Defenders Sharing and Learning Circle: Generating Knowledge for Action.”
To learn how you can support the Mi’kmaw Grandmothers, please visit: https://stopaltongas.wordpress.com/.