More uranium is mined in Northern Saskatchewan than anywhere else in the Western world. Much of it is mined on or near Native lands. This is the story of the Native’s struggle not only to protect their homes from the immediate and long-term environmental effects of uranium mining, but also to have a say in how their lands are used. These personal accounts by the residents themselves show that, contrary to the government line, it is the people themselves who are at the forefront of this fight, and not a handful of outside agitators.
“Food is the basis of human life. Starvation, botulism, ptomaine poisoning, and toxic contamination of food cause death at various speeds and through different mechanisms. Death, however, is still death. We as a society have failed the Wollaston Lake community in the basic human right to information and to health. We are multiplying comparable self-destructive behaviors all over the world. Please read on, because the story of Wollaston Lake is our own story, the story of our land, our food, and our brothers and sisters.
--Dr. Rosalie Bertell
Miles Goldstick, who holds an M.A. in regional planning and resource development, has worked as environmental researcher, in which capacity he prepared evidence for the British Columbia Royal Commission into Uranium Mining. He has also lived in Northern Saskatchewan, working first as adult education teacher and late as community planning adviser for the Lac La Hache Band in Wollaston Lake, where he was also active in the campaign against uranium mining.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Rosalie Bertell, Ph. D., G.N.S.H.
Introduction
Chronology of Events, July 1984- August 1985
CHAPTER 1- THE PEOPLE
CHAPTER 2- THE MINES
CHAPTER 3- THE RESISTANCE
CHAPTER 4- INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
Afterword: Rationale and Proposal for a Northern Development Council by Adele Ratt
315 pages, photographs, illustrations
Paperback ISBN: 0-920057-95-0 $16.99
Hardcover ISBN: 0-920057-94-2 $45.99
1987
