AAMJIWNAANG FIRST NATION -- The people of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation are painfully aware they make up a startling statistic that has raised eyebrows around the world, but the bigger concern for residents of the Sarnia-area reserve are the chemicals they fear are overwhelming their community and killing their legacy.

The girl-boy ratio anomaly has been the subject of international study, most recently in an article published in Environmental Health Perspectives this month based on the work of researchers from the U.S. and Japan.

"To our knowledge, this is a more significantly reduced sex ratio and greater rate of change than has been reported previously anywhere," the study reads.

The phenomenon of an increasingly female reserve snuck up on everyone a few years ago, when there were enough girls in the community to field three baseball teams but only one boys' squad.

Lockridge thought of her own family -- her two sisters have nine kids between them, of which there's only one boy -- and started to get worried about what was happening in the community and the possible impacts of the surrounding industrial plants.

Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Gord Miller helped facilitate a meeting with local residents and various government officials and said it's clear the people of Aamjiwnaang have reason for concern.

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