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In 2012 Mandamin received the
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in 2003 which took her more than a month, the spring became the annual time for the walks to begin as it symbolizes re-growth and renewal of the earth. The work continues through a group called Nibi
Emosaawdamajig (Those Who Walk for the Water), led by Shirley Williams and her niece Elizabeth
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Spanish, Ontario. Mandamin moved to Thunder Bay in 1979. Throughout her career in Thunder Bay, she worked at Kashadaying residence and Mino Bimaadiziwin. She also served as executive director of Beendigen Inc. and Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA). She retired in 2006.
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Mandamin as part of Women's History Month. In 2022, Sir John A. Macdonald Public School in Brampton was renamed "Nibi Emosaawdang” (meaning water walker in English) in honour of Mandamin.
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Mandamin was the Chief
Commissioner of the Anishinabek Nation Women's Water Walk Commission, a member of the Great Lakes Guardian Council. Since 2003, Mandamin walked the shorelines of all the
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The water walk movement began in 2003 after grandmother
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Michigan Upper Peninsula. Lake Michigan is one of the first shorelines that Grandmother Mandamin walked for protection of the waters.
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released a series of stamps titled "Indigenous
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Steamboat Lake in Minnesota at Sunset 2019. Grandmother Mandamin fought for clean water for generations to come.
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Following her retirement, Mandamin returned to school in 2009. In 2013 Mandamin graduated from
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Josephine Henrietta Mandamin (née Trudeau) was born on February 21, 1942. Mandamin was from
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