Fish, Kin and Hope: Tending to Water Violations in amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory

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Previous articleNext article FreeFish, Kin and Hope: Tending to Water Violations in amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six TerritoryZoe ToddZoe ToddPDFPDF PLUSAbstractFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAbstractIn the aftermath of an oil spill in the North Saskatchewan River, Zoe Todd urges a rethink of human and more-than-human relations.Plastiglomerate sample/ready-made, collected by Patricia Corcoran and sculptor Kelly Jazvac at Kamilo Beach, Hawaii, 2013. Photograph: Jeff Elstone. Courtesy Kelly JazvacWe as humans live in a very narrow spectrum of ideal conditions. Those ideal conditions have to be there for us to exist. That's why it's very important to talk about ecology, the relationship. If those ideal conditions are not there, you and I are not going to last for very long. Just text Neanderthal. Ask the dinosaurs. What happened to them? We asked one of our elders, 'Why did those dinosaurs disappear?' He thought about it for a while and he said, 'Maybe they didn't do their ceremonies.'– Leroy Little Bear1On 21 July 2016, Husky Energy Inc. spilled around 200,000 litres of oil mixed with diluents into the North Saskatchewan River, near the Saskatchewan-Alberta border.2 The oil spill breached the containment booms that had been built in the river, and flowed past cities and First Nations lands downstream of the leak. The cities of Prince Albert and North Battleford and th…