Farm Stay

“A long time ago, my aunt was getting like $27 an acre . . .”

… I said, ‘That’s worth more than that,’ and argued with the farmer. He said, ‘No, I’m not going to talk to you.’ They can bid as low as they want. That’s what they were doing all those years, getting rich. I got in office. What can we do? Luckily, we had somebody that thought like the white man, was a businessman or something. We got a grant from a church and went to the bidding. The farmer goes, ‘I bid $27, my final offer.’ So the Tribe goes, ‘I bid 30.’ What? Oh, they didn’t know what to do! It went up! The highest probably was about $70 an acre and those farmers almost died, but the farm leases went up. And boy they’re angry.”

~Preston Arrow-weed, in Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is on the traditional territory of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nation. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.

 

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