On October 12, 2009, Elizabeth Penashue, Innu elder and activist, will be leading a week-long walk to Gull Island from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador (Canada). The route of the walk follows the Mitsa-Shipu (Churchill River), and highlights the need to protect the land and her people from the proposed Lower Churchill Hydro Project. This development project would mean the construction of two hydroelectric dams on Innu territory, causing vast environmental devastation, as well as irreparable loss of Innu land, history and culture.
