Filed under: Indigenous, "canada" | Tags: "canada", Aboriginal, Barriere Lake, Barriere Lake First Nation, British Columbia, Bruce Clark, Caledonia, Canoe Creek First Nation, Crown, Desoronto, Douglas Creek, Duncan Campbell Scott, Elder Wolverine, Euro-Supremacist, First Nations People, Genocide, Gustafsen Lake, Hamilton, Imperialism, Indian Act, Indian Act of 1920, Indian Affairs, Indigenous, John A MacDonald, Julian Fantino, Kanesatake, Kanienkehaka, Oka, Oka Crisis, Ontario, Ontario Provincial Police, Original Peoples, Prison Population, Quebec Police, Racism, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Secwepemc, Settler-Colonialism, Settler-Colony, Shawn Brant, Six Nations Territory, Special Committee of the House of Commons Examining the Indian Act, Sundance Ceremony, Sundancers, Supreme Court, Surete du Quebec, Ts'peten, Warrior Publications, White Supremacy, William Jones Ignace
Shawn Brant
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5 January 2008
Source: The Dominion
NANAIMO, BRITISH COLUMBIA–Armed Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) entered the Six Nations Territory of Douglas Creek in Caledonia, Ontario – about 20 kilometres east of Hamilton – on September 19 of this year. According to witnesses, the OPP jumped a resident, “beat him down,” and arrested him while threatening other residents not to interfere.
The Crown, after repeated arrests and jailings, reached a deal with the defense on September 29 to have activist Shawn Brant plead guilty to involvement in two blockades in Desoronto, Ontario, in April 2007. The Crown agreed to drop all but three of the mischief charges, with Brant to receive a sentence of (more…)
Filed under: Indigenous, "canada" | Tags: Imperialism, White Supremacy, Self-Determination, Settler-Colony, Indigenous, Racism, Aboriginal, Ontario Provincial Police, Sidney Linden, Ipperwash, Ipperwash Report, Land Rights, First Nations, Royal Commission on Indigenous Peoples, War Measures Act, Stony Point First Nation, Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty, Michael Bryant, Mohawk, Tyendinaga, Shawn Brant, Oka, Bay of Quinte, CN rail blockade, Julian Fantino, OPP Commissioner, Peter Rosenthal, Dudley George
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(Dated Piece) 23 September 2008
Source: The Dominion
On May 31, 2007, nearly 12 years after Dudley George was shot by an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer, Sidney Linden released the four-volume Ipperwash Report.
In his remarks when he released the report, Linden, the commissioner of the Ipperwash Inquiry, noted that George was the “First aboriginal person to be killed in a land-rights dispute in Canada since the 19th century,” and stated: “If the governments of Ontario and Canada want to avoid future confrontations, they will have to (more…)
