Healthy First Nations

‘Restoring water for our people’: Pilot project installs tap filters in Six Nations

‘Restoring water for our people’: Pilot project installs tap filters in Six Nations

The pressure was on for Rhonda Skye. Firstly, she was representing an innovative Indigenous-driven pilot program proposing a short-term solution to ongoing water quality issues on Canadian reservations, partnering the Dreamcatcher Foundation, Healthy First Nations and the Autumn Peltier Project. Well beyond that, the filter installation Skye was overseeing this morning was on her brother Scott General’s tap. “I’ll give her a shot,” Rhonda’s younger sibling laughed. “If she lies to me, I’m telling mom.”

Foundation working to bring filters for clean water across Ontario reserves

Foundation working to bring filters for clean water across Ontario reserves

Water is an extremely important part of Indigenous culture which makes the fact that 27 Indigenous communities across Canada are living with a boil water advisory while countless others struggle for access to clean water that much more devastating. “Water is very important to Indigenous people,” Beverley Maracle, a resident of Six Nations of the Grand River, told CityNews. “Water is medicine to Indigenous people and we need water for life. So water is life.”