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Tar Sands Healing Walk
The Tar Sands Healing Walk began in 2010. It was founded by Jesse Cardinal, in collaboration with the Indigenous women of Keepers of the Athabasca. Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, a Dene women, is the main organizer. One of Eriel’s co-organizers for the Healing Walk is Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a Lubicon Cree environmental activist. Over four consecutive years the Tar Sands Healing Walk brings together hundreds of people to walk in a spiritual gathering to protect culture, environment and climate from the expansion of the tar sands. This women's initiative aims to unite the peoples of the Athabasca River and Lake Watershed to secure and protect water and watershed lands for ecological, social, cultural and community health and well being.
== Background ==
The walk is a demonstration to bring awareness to the impact of the Tar sands development.〔 "Protests, rallies, marches are all good and necessary, but we felt like people needed something more spiritual, something to strengthen a connection to the land" says organizer Jesse Cardinal (Keepers of the Athabasca). The walk is called the healing walk to pray for the land and the people that have been exploited by Tar sands development. It is a reaction to the alleged legislative abuses of Indigenous treaty rights.
Over 500 people travelled from all over North America to participate in this healing ceremony. This walk takes place on the territories of the Cree, Dene and Métis peoples of northern Alberta, where the impacts of the tar sands on the land and its inhabitants is devastating.
Many people gather and camp at the Indian Beach Campsite in Anzac, just outside Fort McMurray near the Athabasca Oil Sands, to the walk. Native elders from all over North America lead people past lakes of tailings wastewater and infrastructure of the tar sands industry along the Athabasca River covering a walking route ranging from a 14 to16 kilometers. The 2014 walk was the last official walk. "This is the last healing walk in the Athabasca region because it’s time to shed light on other communities impacted by tar sands," said Jesse Cardinal, coordinator of Keepers of the Athabasca. "In order to stop the destruction, the healing has to start everywhere."
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