Autumn Peltier: Anishinaabe Water Rights Activist

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Autumn Peltier
By Theevhaun and Raymond

Autumn Peltier is an Anishinaabe water rights advocate. She was born in 2004, she was raised in Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island. Autumn Peltier is a world-renowned water-rights advocate and a leading global youth environmental activist. Autumn is doing this, so all Anishinaabeg and indigenous communities have clean and drinkable water. Autumn Peltier has the characteristics of a hero because she put her life towards providing clean and potable water. She doesn't give up and cares about water. Autumn life’s work is to help indigenous communities that don't have clean water. She helps protect water. Autumn Peltier is an outstanding hero because she only does good things such as connecting to herself …show more content…

Autumn Peltier is most likely the person who protects water the most out of everyone on the planet. Autumn is one of the largest protectors because she began advocating for the universal right to clean drinking water at a very young age. She was raised from 8 years old to care for water in her community. Growing up, she hated seeing people and relatives walk kilometers just to get clean water in buckets. Autumn Peltier always helps people by making speeches & talking to country leaders and that makes her a hero. In 2016, at age 12, Autumn Peltier came face-to-face with Justin Trudeau and, in front of hundreds of people in a conference hall in Gatineau. She said "I am very unhappy with the choices you've made for my people” in tears. She challenged him and asked for a promise from the Prime Minister that he would “protect the water. Autumn learned over the years that without water there’s no …show more content…

Her job is to provide water for poor indigenous communities. Autumn Peltier has been campaigning for the right to fresh water since she was 8 years old and helps ensure that everyone has access to clean water. She began advocating for the earth’s right to clean drinking water at a very early age, raising awareness towards water rights and ensuring communities have access to clean, safe and reliable drinking water. Peltier was appointed as the Anishinabek Nation chief water commissioner in Canada following the death of her great-aunt, Josephine Mandamin, who had been the previous Chief Water Commissioner. By the age of eight, Peltier was attending water ceremonies on First Nation reserves. Autumn is an activist and more specifically, a water activist, that helps the world