[1] In 2003 Anishinaabe grandmothers, including Grandmother Josephine Mandamin,[2] along with many Anishinaabe women and men, began walking around the Great Lakes on Turtle Island.
In 2011 a Health Canada study found that 122 First Nation communities were under water advisories.
The 2011 Mother Earth Water Walk involved walks collecting water from the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Lake Superior, Hudson River and the Gulf of Mexico.
[3] Since its conception Mother Earth Water Walkers have walked over 10,000 miles along the shores of bodies of Water in Canada, Central America, and the United States.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context= The International Indigenous Policy Journal, Volume 3, Issue 3, Article 11