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ethical waters: reflections on the Healing Walk in the Tar Sands

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Notes

  1. Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (2012) ‘Number of missing, murdered Aboriginal women continue to rise’, 15 August, http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2012/08/15/numbers-of-missing-murdered-aboriginal-women-continue-to-rise, last accessed 18 September 2012.

  2. Fort Chipewyan is a small rural community that has been raising the alarm regarding unusual cancers for years. See ‘Why is Cancer Sweeping Tiny Fort Chipewyan?’ by Patrick Brethour, for instance: https://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0522-05.htm—or the documentary film, Downstream: http://downstreamdoc.com/, last accessed 18 September 2012.

  3. Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Tar Sands, 12 April 2012, https://acfnchallenge.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/shell-case-and-claim-update/, last accessed 18 September 2012.

  4. Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, http://www.acfn.com, last accessed 18 September 2012.

  5. See ‘First Nation proposal to protect caribou shows balanced approach to oilsands development possible’ by Simon Dyer, Pembina Institute, http://www.pembina.org/blog/641, last accessed 18 September 2012.

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  • Nikiforuk, A. (2008) Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Vancouver: Greystone Books.

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Acknowledgements

This reflection is an integration of previously written articles, online at:

http://rabble.ca/news/2010/08/healing-walk-around-tar-sands-dead-zone

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4058

https://pomegranatewomenwriting.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/aidee-velasco-arenas-christine-leclerc-and-rita-wong-witnessing-the-tar-sands-dead-zone-and-asserting-the-need-to-heal/

http://rabble.ca/news/2012/08/ethical-waters-healing-walk-tar-sands-grows-year-year

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Wong, R. ethical waters: reflections on the Healing Walk in the Tar Sands. Fem Rev 103, 133–139 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2012.21

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