Grassy Narrows road blockade

The Grassy Narrows road blockade is an ongoing roadblock in Canada that started in 2002 to prevent clearcutting of timber on Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation territory.

[citation needed] The Grassy Narrow’s chief and council wanted to stop the logging efforts by working within the federal system and use the Indian act.

The disregard by the Government of Canada and subsidiary commercial logging companies for the territory belonging to the GNFN [5] exposed the state of the relationship between indigenous communities and other legislative powers, and the clear injustice that was prevalent.

The use of procedural justice when creating this “claimed space” and subsequent blockade of the newly constructed logging road brought the issue into the spotlight, disclosing these injustices and gaining the attention of other environmental activist groups [5].

This undermined what is often referred to as “slow violence”, a common issue in indigenous communities that don’t often gain enough recognition and media attention.