Filed under: "canada", Indigenous, North America | Tags: Barriere Lake, Barriere Lake First Nation, Colonialism, Imperialism, incarceration, Prison Population, Racism, Settler-Colonialism, Settler-Colony, White Supremacy
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29 March 2009
Source: The Dominion
TRADITIONAL TERRITORY OF SNUNEYMUXW FIRST NATION (NANAIMO, BC)– “It is a scandal that Chief Nottaway spent Christmas in jail for peaceful civil disobedience to demand governments live up to their responsibilities,” said Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May at a rally in Ottawa on January 7 in support of the jailed Customary Chief.
Chief Benjamin Nottaway of the Barriere Lake First Nation was sentenced to two months imprisonment for peacefully proclaiming rights to traditional territories in Western Quebec.
In 2001, the government of Canada reneged on the binding 1991 Trilateral Agreement, a sustainable development and resource co-management agreement between Canada and the Barriere Lake First Nation.
The Algonquins of Barrière Lake First Nation are demanding (more…)
Filed under: "canada", Indigenous | 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…)
