“Grassroots Grow Deep” was held on the beautiful Cold Lake First Nations’ treaty grounds and had 45 participants from Treaty 6, 7, and 8 territories, plus facilitators and guests from the Standing Rock/Oceti Sakowin Camp, the Trans Mountain fight on unceded Coast Salish territories, and other interconnected keep it in the ground struggles across the continent. The camp came about when Indigenous community leaders identified a need to better connect with others doing tar sands resistance work across the massive region that is directly impacted by this extraction.
