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Resistance

  • Algonquin - Barriere Lake
    Barriere Lake Algonquins are resisting the supplantation of their customary governing system, on their unceded territory, by Indian Act band elections imposed by Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl.
  • Anishnaabe - Asubpeeschoseewagong
    Anishnabe of Grassy Narrows First Nation in northeastern Ontario battle clearcut logging and the effects of colonial and industrial invasion of their homeland.
  • Beaver Lake Cree - northeastern Alberta
    "The Beaver Lake Cree, a small, impoverished band of 900 people in eastern Alberta, are suing the Canadian federal and Alberta provincial governments to protect the land. The tar sands are obliterating their traditional hunting and fishing lands in Alberta. The animals, fish, plants and medicine that sustain the Beaver Lake Cree are being destroyed."
  • Coastal First Nations - B.C.
    An alliance of British Columbian First Nations oppose the Enbridge Pipeline and excessive resource extraction in their traditional territories.
  • Gwich'in - Arctic National Wildlife Range
    "The Gwich’in people stand united in our continued efforts to protect the (caribou birthing grounds) from oil and gas development."
  • Gwich'in - Peel River
    "Mining interests are lobbying hard to open up the Peel River watershed to roads and industrial development. The Peel Watershed Planning Commission recommends protecting 80% of this wilderness. Affected First Nations are calling for protection of the entire watershed."
  • Lubicon Lake Cree - Little Buffalo
    The Lubicon Cree Nation is fighting the invasion of their unceded territory by colonial governments and resource extraction companies.
  • St'at'imc - Sutikalh
    The Sutikalh Camp is dedicated to the preservation of the pristine area of the Melvin Creek Valley, also known as Sutikalh or Winter Spirit. Members of the St'at'imc Nation established this permanent camp in 2000 to protest the proposed development of a 500 million dollar ski resort by Nancy Greene Raine and her husband Al Raine (NGR) in the Cayoosh Mountain Range.
  • Tsilhqot'in - Teztan Biny
    "Taseko Mines Ltd. is proposing to develop the Prosperity Mine, a massive open pit gold and copper mine, deep within the traditional territory of the Tsilhqot'in Nation. The proposed mine's two kilometer-wide open pit, tailings pond, waste rock piles, roads, and transmission lines would destroy an entire sub-alpine ecosystem, and most importantly Teztan Biny, a lake sacred to the Tsilhqot'in Nation, and known to others as Fish Lake."
  • Yup'ik - Bristol Bay, Alaska
    Native and non-native Alaskans oppose the proposed Pebble gold and copper mine in the headwaters of one of the most productive salmon spawning areas in North America.

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February 2010

Monday, February 15, 2010

Happy Riel Day

While it's National Flag Day in Canada and Family Day here in Alberta, it's Louis Riel Day in Manitoba, where they celebrate the life and struggle of the great Metis leader on the third Monday in February, since 2007. Riel lobbied for Metis and First Nation representation in Ottawa in the 1800's, and led two armed resistance efforts against the government of Canada when his people were pushed aside in the settling of the west. Sadly, those efforts failed, and the Metis were scattered and dispossessed. Despite this, the Metis Nation is now alive and well in Canada.

Happy Louis Riel Day!

Kanata flag Freedom Fighter sketch

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