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SACRED WATER

The title ‘water advocate and chief water commissioner for the Anishinabek Nation’ might not sound like it belongs to a 15-year-old, but young activist Autumn Peltier is not your average teenager.

Growing up in the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, Ottawa, she developed a deep understanding of the importance of water and the need to protect it after being exposed to contaminated H20 in her community. “I went to the washroom and all over the walls it said Don’t

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