In the 1970s, Jenpeg was a temporary town in the forests of northern Manitoba where the construction of a hydroelectric dam that was located on the lands of the unceded Indigenous Pimicikamak, the "people of rivers and lakes." Kazim Ali recounts memories of his childhood and his return to Pimicikamak as an adult and learns more about the realities of life in Pimicikamak: the environmental and social impact of the Jenpeg dam, the effects of colonialism and cultural erasure, and the community's initiatives to preserve and strengthen their identity.
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