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Job title: Water advocate and chief water commissioner for the Anishinabek NationEducation: In grade 10, St. Mother Teresa High School
“I went to the washroom, and all over the walls it said ‘Don’t drink or touch the water,’ ‘Not for consumption’ and ‘Boil water advisory.’ And I had no idea what all that meant,” says Peltier. Her mother explained that the water in that community—like on 56 Indigenous reserves in Canada today—was contaminated to the point that it was unsafe. That’s the moment that Peltier decided she needed to take action.
But stand up she did, starting with speaking about the environment and the importance of clean drinking water at her school. At age 10, she was invited to the Children’s Climate Conference in Sweden, and not long after that she made headlines for publicly criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in person during the 2016 Assembly of First Nations’ annual winter meeting.
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