The 457 mile long Dempster Highway runs through the Tombstone Mountain Range in the Yukon Territory connecting all the way to Inuvik, Northwest Territories.
The Blackstone River is seen running through Yukon's Peel Watershed, North America's largest remaining undeveloped swath of wilderness. The future of watershed is currently being decided by the Supreme Court of Canada over a conflict between local First Nations and the Yukon government over how much will be opened to mining development.
The Blackstone River is seen running through Yukon's Peel Watershed, North America's largest remaining undeveloped swath of wilderness. The future of watershed is currently being decided by the Supreme Court of Canada over a conflict between local First Nations and the Yukon government over how much will be opened to mining development.
A frozen Arctic Char on the snow in Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik, Quebec, on March 4, 2017. Arctic Char is a staple food of the Inuit people who usually consume it frozen.
2016. A young woman at a nightclub in the city of Altamira. In the heart of the Amazon, on the Xingu River, Altamira has been through a number of economic booms, the most recent being from the construction of the Belo Monte Dam. With the influx of money and people the urban culture is fortified.
A child from the Xikrin village of "Pot crô" sits in a canoe on the Rio Bacaja, its name meaning "the water that runs in river is the same as the blood that flows through our veins." The Xikrin are a warrior tribe that have strongly resisted the dam, but were recently dived into 8 smaller groups due to negotiations with Norte Enegria, the company building the dam. Many of the chiefs were paid off with boats, motors, and televisions, while others maintained resistance. The Bacaja, a tributary of the Xingu River which the people depend upon for fish and transportation, will severely dry up after the dam is completed.
A boy plays by the river on the Extractavist Reserve of Riozinho do AnfrÃsio in the Xingu Basin. Extractavists are the descendants of Rubber Tapers who came to the forests generations ago during Brazils Rubber Boom. They now live along the river banks with an economy based on harvesting sustainable natural products such as rubber, nuts, and oils.
A Munduruku child rests before jumping from a tree stum into a creek near the village of Sawre Muybu, on the Tapjos River in Para State, Brazil. The Munduruku are a tribe of 13000 people who live traditionally along the river and depend on fishing and the river ecosystem for their livelihood. They have been fighting against government plans to construct a number of hydroelectric dams on the Tapajos River in the Amazon rainforest that would flood much of their traditional lands.
A Munduruku girl holds her baby brother in a hammock in the village of Praia Do Mangue on the outskirts of the city of Itaituba, Para state, Brazil. The Munduruku have been fighting against government plans to build 43 dams on the Tapajos River Basin that would impact traditional lands and destroy sacred sites.
Lucicleide Kurap of the Munduruku village of Dace Watpu has a moment with a pet parakeet after washing dishes in the Tapajos River in Para State, Brazil. The Munduruku have been fighting against government plans to build 43 dams on the Tapajos River Basin the largest one, the Sao Luiz do Tapajos, if built would flood their village.
A child from the Xikrin village of "Pot crô" jumps into the Rio Bacaja, its name meaning "the water that runs in river is the same as the blood that flows through our veins."
Tamil Flores, 9, left, and her brother Hudson Flores, 6, play in a stream in an occupied village of Guaiuiry near Amambai Indigenous Reserve in Matto Grosso Du Sul, Brazil.
The Churchill River is photographed from a float plane in Northern Manitoba, Canada on October 3, 2018. The 1000 mile Churchill River is one of two major rivers that flow into the Hudson Bay.
Delaney Mcgilvery, 25, Keenan Young, 30, and Mitchell Turner, 21, of Misipawistik Cree Nation work as fisherman's helpers on Lake Winnipeg near Grand Rapids Manitoba.
An Indian Hockey game, where players use homemade makeshift sticks to play, during the 60th anniversary of the Cross Lake Tappers Festival. The festival is an opportunity for the community to celebrate their culture and heritage and bring people together. Events include a dog sled race, square dancing and Jigging, a talent show, and a King and Queen Trapper contest.
Zoubida, 28, opens the door to the Synagogue which she has been the guardian of since it's restoration in 2002 in the small southern village of Irill Noro, Morocco. 2010
The Mellah of the southern Moroccan village of Illigh lies in ruins after it was abandoned during the Jewish exodus to Israel. There are stories of Muslim neighbours begging for the Jewish members of their community to stay instead of leave to Isreal. 2010
Pimicikamak First Nation Elder and knowledge keeper Edith Mary Blacksmith is photographed in her home in Cross Lake on her 91st birthday. Mixed with Pelicans over Lake Winnipeg. 2016
A deer sits half skinned on the L'Hommecourt trapline located next to Imperial Oil's Kearl Oil Sands project. Traplines are partitions of land allocated to individuals and passed down through families for hunting and trapping. Most have cabins and often serve as family getaways into the bush. Many of the regions traplines have been excavated or disturbed by the Oil Sands industry with the title holders often receiving compensations for the use of the land.
2012- Albertine Desjarlais takes a cigarette break while slaughtering a moose in Fort McKay, Alberta. Moose meat is both a staple and a delicacy for the people here. Due to the growing industry they are becoming harder and harder to find and the quality of their meat is coming into question.
2012- Overburden, an industry term for the natural material that lies above an area of economic interest, is burned at night on the TOTAL lease near Fort McKay First Nation, Alberta. Here strip mining will take place, where they first clear the forest, then proceed to dig up the earth containing the bitumen laced sand. Four months earlier the area was boreal forest with many trails used by the First Nations of Fort McKay.
Smog is seen over the Athabasca River, a place where archeological remains of First Nations people dates back over 3000 years. The Athabasca River feeds the Athabasca Delta, the third largest fresh water delta in the world, it also feeds the water needs of most of the large Oil Sands operations which consume an average of 3.3 barrels of water for each barrel of oil produced. Local residents complain that pollution has effected the fish, saying they taste oily and have deformities, they also claim that the water level has dropped significantly and that beavers and other wildlife no longer make the river their home.
2011- A beam of light from Imperial Oils Kearl Oil Sands Project is seen from the L'Hommecourt Trapline. This trapline is still used as a place to escape and hunt, but the rumble of the encroaching industry remains in the distance and how long the community will retain access to the land for traditional purposes remains unknown.
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