Welcome to the “one book, one community” program designed to inspire passion and connection to the Great Lakes Watershed through reading.

Saving rivers isn’t a choice. It’s survival. Our vision is to keep rivers healthy and free while ensuring people have the water they need. We do it by protecting wild rivers, restoring damaged rivers and conserving clean water for people and nature.

I respectfully acknowledge this Sacred Land as Niibing (it is summer) on western shores of Ktichigaming, Anishinaabeg traditional homelands. It is between Animikii-Wiikwedong (Thunder Bay) of Fort William First Nation, and Gichi Onigaming (Portage) of Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

IndigenEYEZ is an Indigenous-led initiative actively working to create a world where Indigenous peoples live an intergenerational legacy of well-being. We use community building and creative facilitation to deliver workshops that help cultivate healthier relationships and communities.

We as an Ojibway First Nation have come a long way since 1962 when we were established by Ontario Order-in-Council transferred 32 acres at MacDiarmid to the Federal Government to be set apart as a reserve for Rocky Bay. We had a name change to Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek (BZA) in 2006.

The Great River Rapport is a holistic, community-based, ecosystem health assessment for the upper region of Kaniatarowanenneh (St. Lawrence River) founded in partnership with Mohawk Council of Akwesasne and grounded in science, Indigenous perspectives, and place-based knowledge.