RAVEN Book Club Event: 'It Stops Here'

kc dyer
Oct 7
2 min read

Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights

The Sacred Trust is an initiative of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN), with a focus on protecting the unceded Tsleil-Waututh lands and waters from the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion.

As a Sundance Chief and a member of the TWN, author Reuben George brings his experience as manager of the Sacred Trust to his book It Stops Here.

Part memoir, part call to action, 'It Stops Here' is the story of the stand taken by George and his Nation against the development of a fossil fuel megaproject.

Members of the TWN have worked for a decade to overcome the intergenerational harm brought by colonization in order to reclaim their lands, waters, law, and food systems.

George, who is the grandson of activist Chief Dan George, brought 20 years' experience as a family counsellor to the position with the Sacred Trust. Over the past 10 years he has worked at building alliances with Indigenous people the world over who are fighting for water, land and human rights.

"We need to question these projects. In 25 years, at the rate we are going, there are going to be no edible fish returning to the oceans," he says. "The fires we saw this year in Manitoba are going to come here. We need to get out of our colonized mind and think of future generations."

Register HERE for the RAVEN Book Club's online discussion, which takes place October 9 from 5 to 6 p.m. Pacific Time.

It Stops Here is a national bestseller, and was shortlisted for both the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature and the City of Vancouver Book Award. This is the third in RAVEN's book club series featuring works by Indigenous authors.

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