Personal favourite photographs, 2010

Robin Rowland 

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Wyett Danes, one year old, drums in the arms of his mother, Mary Danes, both members of  the Hartley Bay Dancers, as their procession enters the recreation centre at Kitamaat Village, BC, May 29, 2010.  Traditional dancing followed a day long “Solidarity Gathering of Nations”  sponsored  by the Haisla and Gita’at First Nations, called to protest plans by Enbridge to build a bitumen pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the nearby port of Kitimat. (Robin Rowland)

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