Infrastructure Exposé: Colonialism, Protests, and Logging at Fairy Creek on What is Now Vancouver Island

• Main Author: Mei-Ling Patterson
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Environment and natural resources economics; Environmental policy; Environmental geography; Indigenous peoples environmental knowledge; Fairy Creek Blockade; Vancouver Island; British Columbia; Pacheedaht; Ditidaht; First Nations; civil disobedience; settler-colonial; Canada; Indigenous communities; Turtle Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.32920/19519681.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/report/Infrastructure_Expos_Colonialism_Protests_and_Logging_at_Fairy_Creek_on_What_is_Now_Vancouver_Island/19519681

The goal of this assignment was to select a specific infrastructure project in North America and expose its colonial roots. For my assignment, I chose the Fairy Creek Blockade, an ongoing protest being conducted to stop the logging of old-growth forests on Vancouver Island, BC, on the unceded land o...