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MCK: Not One More Inch
(Kahnawake – 7, Ohiarihkó:wa/July 2021) The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) wishes to inform the public that it is strongly supporting the significant number of community members who are currently camping on land adjacent to a proposed residential development project in neighboring Chateauguay. While the current encampment is actually on Kahnawà:ke’s recently returned “Parcel E” […]
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Start of public consultations “Your Dream Park” in La Mauricie National Park
From: Parks Canada The public is invited to comment on the draft of the management plan to contribute to the future of this protected area May 25, 2021 Shawinigan, Quebec Parks Canada Agency National parks are […]
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Export of Canadian Hydropower to the United States – First Nations in Québec and Labrador Unite to Oppose Hydro-Québec Project
WEMOTACI, QC, Dec. 3, 2020 – Five First Nations in Québec, the Innu of Pessamit, the Atikamekw of Wemotaci, and the Anishnabeg of Pikogan, Lac Simon and Kitcisakik, have joined the Innu Nation of Labrador to oppose Hydro-Quebec’s massive new power transmission corridor to the United States. In two separate briefs addressed to the Canada […]
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Quebec Export of Electricity to the United States – The moment of truth for Pessamit and Wemotaci First Nations
QUEBEC CITY, Aug. 5, 2020 – The Innu First Nation of Pessamit and the Atikamekw First Nation of Wemotaci (Province of Quebec) are joining forces to put an end to the stranglehold of the Quebec government and Hydro-Québec on their traditional territories. They mean to obtain compensation for production facilities, reservoirs and transmission lines set […]
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Mohawk land dispute unresolved three decades after Siege of Kanehsatake – APTN News
Jul 11, 2020 There’s nothing unique about the first car that slowly crests the hill leading from Kanehsatake to Oka. But then it’s followed closely by another. Then another. This convoy, over 100 vehicles long, is rolling along highway 344. Warrior and Haudenosaunee flags, soggy from the rain, struggle to catch any wind. Slow and […]
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Canada Must Ensure First Nations Rights, Title and Jurisdiction Are Respected in Trans Mountain Expansion Project
Canada Must Ensure First Nations Rights, Title and Jurisdiction Are Respected in Trans Mountain Expansion Project February 4, 2020 (Ottawa, ON) – Following the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision today on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde says the federal government must ensure that First Nations’ […]
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Canadian forest scientists want to decolonize their research – National Observer
January 29th 2020 When Natural Resources Canada researchers held a meeting last January, they came to an important realization about their department’s relationship with First Nations. Forest scientists often monitor experimental sites, and many at the Laurentian Forestry Centre have set them up on traditional Indigenous territory. The researchers wanted to know what level of […]
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Akwesasne moves ahead in $239M Dundee land claim settlement after appeals dismissed – CBC
5 appeals of 2018 referendum results dismissed by court following year-long process Jan 28, 2020 Akwesasne is one step closer to settling a 130-year-old land grievance with Canada after a year of reviewing appeals lodged against the results of a community-wide referendum. The referendum, held in December 2018, was required by the Mohawk community that […]
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Man starts hunger strike in Kanesatake over 301-year-old land dispute – CBC
Community’s traditional governing body has called for a moratorium on land development Oct 18, 2019 A First Nations man in Quebec is on the eighth day of a hunger strike to raise awareness of a 301-year-old unresolved land dispute in Kanesatake. Al Harrington, an Ojibway man from Shoal Lake 39 at the Ontario/Manitoba border who […]
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Kanesatake’s 301-year-old land dispute highlights flaws in Canada’s Specific Claims Policy – CBC
Development on disputed land continues as band council negotiates behind closed doors Aug 14, 2019 301 years. That’s how long a First Nation in Quebec has been trying to reclaim its land. The Mohawks of Kanesatake once occupied 689 square kilometres of land northwest of Montreal. Today they have 12 square kilometres. Solving the land […]
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