After blocking Canadian rail, militant Mohawks continue protests in dispute -- 1 of 800 aboriginal land cases
The leader of an aboriginal blockade that paralyzed rail traffic between Toronto and Montreal for more than 30 hours promised this morning there will be more “economic disruptions” like the protest ended ahead of schedule...
Those targets are the railway, provincial highways and the town of Deseronto, Brant said as he puffed on cigarettes at the gravel quarry that is the heart of the dispute...
Condominiums are planned using gravel from the quarry for an area known as the Culbertson Land Tract, which is on a section of land given to the Six Nations in 1793. The Mohawks contend they never relinquished any part of it...
Federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Jim Prentice...says he understands the frustration of First Nations who’ve watched unsettled land claims balloon from about 250 cases in 1993 to more than 800 now...
Friday also marked the one-year anniversary of a police raid on another aboriginal occupation —- in the southwestern Ontario town of Caledonia, which has been marred by violence in the past...
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Those targets are the railway, provincial highways and the town of Deseronto, Brant said as he puffed on cigarettes at the gravel quarry that is the heart of the dispute...
Condominiums are planned using gravel from the quarry for an area known as the Culbertson Land Tract, which is on a section of land given to the Six Nations in 1793. The Mohawks contend they never relinquished any part of it...
Federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Jim Prentice...says he understands the frustration of First Nations who’ve watched unsettled land claims balloon from about 250 cases in 1993 to more than 800 now...
Friday also marked the one-year anniversary of a police raid on another aboriginal occupation —- in the southwestern Ontario town of Caledonia, which has been marred by violence in the past...