It Stops Here Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Water, and Our People Thankfulness When We Were Alone won

When We Were Alone won the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award in the Young People's Literature (Illustrated Books) category

Dalhousie University

Curtis is the playwright of the popular Rez Christmas story series

and the Tonawanda and Onondaga Reservations in New York

Ramona Reece

It Stops Here Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Water, and Our People Thankfulness When We Were Alone wonPart memoir, part Call to Action. By authors Rueben George, a member of the Tsleil Waututh Nation (TWN), and Mike Simpson, who has written extensively on settler colonialism and conflicts over oil and gas pipelines in Canada. A personal account of one mans confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, ineffective government, and the threat to