By Dave Baxter Local Journalism Initiative reporter Two Manitoba First Nations are seeking $1 billion in total damages, and have joined a long list of communities suing three levels of government for what they say has been the ongoing pollution and degradation of the Red River and Lake Winnipeg. Bloodvein First Nation Chief Roland Hamilton and Dauphin River First Nation Chief Lawrence Letander are named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed on behalf of their communities on May 21 that seeks $500 million in damages each for both of those communities. The lawsuit says the city, province and the feds have “contravened” Treaty rights and their fiduciary duties by allowing sewage and other contaminants to continue to pollute the Red River, which flows downstream to Lake Winnipeg, and other bodies

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