"Do we really want something that’s going to lead to the demise and extinction of our caribou in that area? No, we don’t," Desjardin said.

“We are fighting for our cultural survival. That’s what we’re doing right now and that’s why we feel so strongly about this. Do we want a uranium mine in the middle of that knowing the possible consequences if anything ever happened with our watershed? Of course not."

Birch Narrows Dene Elder-advisor and trapper Ron Desjardin said it felt like an invasion.

On February 10, Baselode workers were seen on the territory again, and members set up a checkpoint, blockading access and monitoring the area. Baselode had been issued a permit by the province of Saskatchewan prior to any meaningful consultation with the community.

On February 9, 2021, members of Birch Narrows First Nation issued a cease and desist order to James Sykes, CEO of Baselode Energy Corporation, a Toronto-based uranium company who had been conducting mineral exploration on unoccupied Crown land near the band's territory without their consent.

Today we remember Dandara's opposition to slavery and her resistance to peace deals which would have enabled the continuation of slavery as an institution.

She most likely convinced Zumbi, her husband and Ganga Zumba’s nephew, to oppose the treaty as well." While the scholarly record is inconsistent, some sources list today as the day of her death and state she left off a cliff, preferring suicide to a return to enslavement.

In 1678, Ganga Zumba ,the leader of Palmares accepted a peace treaty with the Portuguese. Williams writes that Dandara "opposed the terms of the treaty, fearing that moving to the Cucaú Valley would lead to the destruction of the Republic of Palmares and a return to slavery.

Scholar Erica Lorraine Williams writes that Palmares was several village style communities united together to resist enslavement and Portuguese colonialism, with some of the African inhabitants being from west central African regions, such as Angola with a likely Bantu influenced culture.

Palmares is generally regarded as the largest and longest-lived fugitive community in Brazil, consisting of free born people of African heritage, formerly enslaved persons, as well as Indigenous inhabitants, mixed race people, and some whites.

Dandara was a warrior who helped defend Palmares, a maroon community (quilombo) in northeastern Brazil in the late 1600s.

During her act of protest she shouted "That’s for raping our sovereignty." She was arrested but later released without charge.

Waitangi Day is a National holiday which celebrates the anniversary of the initial signing in 1840 of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Maori activist and nurse, Josie Butler threw a dildo at the face of New Zealand's economic development minister Steve Joyce while speaking at an event for Waitangi Day.

TPP is the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal which had been signed in Auckland just before, which had been widely criticised by Māori as undermining the self-determination that should be guaranteed to them by the Treaty of Waitangi.