Stories by Kristin Moe

Kristin Moe is a writer and climate justice activist from the U.S., spending three months in Alberta writing about the social and cultural impacts of the tar sands. subscribe to Kristin Moe's feed

Idle No More: How an Indigenous Protest Movement Erupted in Canada and Spread to the World

Posted on: Jan 10, 2013, Source: YES! Magazine

Idle No More has organized the largest mass mobilizations of indigenous people in recent history. What sparked it off and what’s coming next?

Big Oil vs. Native Community: Canada's First Nations Challenges Shell's Plan to Mine Tar Sands

Posted on: Oct 30, 2012, Source: YES! Magazine

A treaty signed in 1899 enshrined First Nations' right to practice traditional life, and is now being used for a legal challenge to Shell Oil’s mining of tar sands.