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This very moving film explores the terrible consequences of industrial activity on the Saint Lawrence River.

In the 1950s, GM and Reynolds Metal built factories close to Akwesasne, and by the 1980s, the Mohawk learned that they had been poisoning the river for decades with cancer-causing PCBs. Fish accumulated extremely dangerous levels of PCBs. It presented the community with a devastating choice: continue to fish and risk health problems like cancer and thyroid disorders, or stop fishing and lose the connection with the river, and with their ancestors.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s Vox channel for “How US corporations poisoned this Indigenous community"

17 questions for the 17 min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.