Ottawa is offering Six Nations $125 million to settle three land claims in exchange for ending the 15-month occupation of a former housing development in Caledonia.
The offer was presented to Six Nations representatives yesterday and was conveyed to Haldimand County Mayor Marie Trainer last night by federal negotiator and former Mulroney cabinet minister Barbara McDougall.
The mayor also said Six Nations would be permitted to keep the former Burtch Correctional facility in Brant County, near Mount Pleasant. In exchange, Ottawa wants natives who took over the Douglas Creek Estates 15 months ago to leave and it also wants assurances there will be no more occupations.
While the mayor was hopeful, some natives at the table have consistently said in recent months they are only interested in the land and not a cash settlement.
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Showing posts with label Misc Land Claims. Show all posts
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
‘Historic’ land claims shakeup in the works
OTTAWA — Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice is contemplating fundamental changes to the way aboriginal land claims are settled and suggests the federal government will hand the job to an independent body.
Aboriginal groups have been threatening a summer of protest to highlight the slow process of settling land disputes.
“I take the entire situation very seriously,” he said. “Blockades are not in anyone’s interest. They harm innocent people and they do damage to aboriginal people … The worst thing, I think, is that they erode the goodwill that exists toward aboriginal people and the resolution of claims.”
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Aboriginal groups have been threatening a summer of protest to highlight the slow process of settling land disputes.
“I take the entire situation very seriously,” he said. “Blockades are not in anyone’s interest. They harm innocent people and they do damage to aboriginal people … The worst thing, I think, is that they erode the goodwill that exists toward aboriginal people and the resolution of claims.”
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The truth will always rise and be heard - A Resident’s point of view
I received this from a Caledonia resident this morning who has sent it to every media outlet in the area (and beyond), and every council member of Caledonia. It will be interesting to see how many of them publish his comments, or if a strong voice from within Caledonia will simply be ignored.
These are not my words. No using the excuse that they came from an ‘Outsider’.
CTV News report about the school and church
At the end you of the video you will here the words ( They will not leave the crown land till there is a Fair settlement !! Is this NOT admitting this is OUR land!
There Land is Not for sell: right so it does have a price: nice to know they sold their soles to the Devil him self!! We knew this all along!!!
I say give them nothing but the MILITARY BOOT!!! They will take the CASH and then one day come back and do it all over again!!!
Now Canadian’s: how do feel about our future generation’s: myself it’s clear mother bear comes to mind!!! Go touch on of her cub’s if you dare!! These Radical Native’s have priority over even our children: the Notre Dame school has prove that: last year when NO one cared!!
I was told by a person who has a good memory this: Mr. Harper’s first day in power he walked his children to school it was on CH TV NEWS too!!
Now would Mr. Harper walk his children to Notre Dame School knowing there could be a LOCK DOWN without RCMP protection too: only the lying OPP??? Then Mr. Harper YOUR kids could be traumatized like our’s except they would not go through what theses BRAVE kids did: I am talking about 2006 the year NO one heard their cry’s but their own parent’s!!!!! HOW SAD!!!!!!!
To Notre Dame School: you can only lie so many time’s: parent’s WILL catch on you know!!! Craig Grice what he said was right but it will only work once you know: next time well who know’s??
With GUNS (rifle how far does it’s bullet travel 5 to 6 miles) on the DCE maybe the fence needs to be BULLET PROOF!!!!
Safety first RIGHT: Mr. Harper and Mr. McGutless!!
The TRUTH will alway’s rise and be heard: why? it’s simple. GOD’S make sure it does!!!!
Caring,
Jim Smith
Caledonia Ont.
I will be glad to pass along any thoughts to Mr. Smith that the mainstream media may have on why they can excuse not running this editorial.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Natives halt paving job at church parking lot
Plans to pave paradise or, in this case a church parking lot, were put on hold yesterday because of a disagreement with native protesters.Tensions were fraught after a digger and dump truck arrived at the Caledonia Baptist Church, which is directly next to Douglas Creek Estates, a property native protesters have occupied for more than a year.
Work was stopped and talks continued throughout the day — the construction equipment sat idly in the parking lot. Several OPP cars, and a handful of native protesters were on the church property for most of the day. Then the contractor packed up and left.
Last year, the May long weekend brought civil unrest, as natives and non-natives stood toe-to-toe on a barricaded highway. Then a transformer fire put the town in darkness.
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Work was stopped and talks continued throughout the day — the construction equipment sat idly in the parking lot. Several OPP cars, and a handful of native protesters were on the church property for most of the day. Then the contractor packed up and left.
Last year, the May long weekend brought civil unrest, as natives and non-natives stood toe-to-toe on a barricaded highway. Then a transformer fire put the town in darkness.
Read the full story here
Construction vehicles blocked in Caledonia
Tensions were high yesterday afternoon as about a dozen native protesters blocked construction vehicles from leaving or entering the driveway of a Caledonia church.
Then, when an unknowing truck driver proceeded to deliver his load of stone onto the contested site, the conflict escalated.
“It was a lot of cursing and swearing at first, directed at us,” Rev. W. Blake Eady, pastor of Caledonia Baptist Church, said. “That definitely raised the temperature of the situation.”
Yesterday, the contractors and the natives were still negotiating to allow the remaining vehicles to leave for the weekend.
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Then, when an unknowing truck driver proceeded to deliver his load of stone onto the contested site, the conflict escalated.
“It was a lot of cursing and swearing at first, directed at us,” Rev. W. Blake Eady, pastor of Caledonia Baptist Church, said. “That definitely raised the temperature of the situation.”
Yesterday, the contractors and the natives were still negotiating to allow the remaining vehicles to leave for the weekend.
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Friday, May 18, 2007
Injunction against rail blockades may backfire, Native spokesman says
A native spokesman warned yesterday that an injunction barring blockades of Canadian National Railway lines in Eastern Ontario may backfire against the railway.
“These proceedings will bring about a reaction, and maybe an unintended reaction, that CN wasn’t looking for,” Mohawk spokesman (Edit: Terrorist) Shawn Brant told reporters after aToronto court hearing. “I don’t believe that a goddamn piece of paper is going to change those things,”
“CN is one of the targets that was listed for economic disruption by our community and it’s going to be our community that is going to decide that.”
Read the full story here much more at http://www.caledoniawakupcall.com/
“These proceedings will bring about a reaction, and maybe an unintended reaction, that CN wasn’t looking for,” Mohawk spokesman (Edit: Terrorist) Shawn Brant told reporters after aToronto court hearing. “I don’t believe that a goddamn piece of paper is going to change those things,”
“CN is one of the targets that was listed for economic disruption by our community and it’s going to be our community that is going to decide that.”
Read the full story here much more at http://www.caledoniawakupcall.com/
Natives risk derailing their own interests
Last December, the Assembly of First Nations voted to make June 29 a national day of peaceful protest. Now Chief Terry Nelson of the Roseau River First Nation is threatening to kick off the Canada Day long weekend by blocking a CN rail line, and encouraging other chiefs to do likewise.
Mr. Nelson was one of the few native leaders to stand up for David Ahenakew after the latter’s notorious anti-Semitic remarks in 2002. He later went on the attack against Winnipeg broadcaster Charles Adler, as well as against the Asper family’s CanWest media empire: “The Jewish silence is deafening. It is not just one article, there are thousands of articles and stories carried by Jewish controlled media that are evidence of hatred against recognized races of people.” He played another race card this week: “There are only two ways of dealing with the white man. One, either you pick up a gun, or you stand between the white man and his money.”
Let’s hope governments and police forces do their job on Canada Day weekend, tearing down any barricades as soon as they are put up and laying charges against anyone who breaks the law. With such lavish forewarning, there’s no excuse not to be prepared; this is no Caledonia-style surprise.
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Mr. Nelson was one of the few native leaders to stand up for David Ahenakew after the latter’s notorious anti-Semitic remarks in 2002. He later went on the attack against Winnipeg broadcaster Charles Adler, as well as against the Asper family’s CanWest media empire: “The Jewish silence is deafening. It is not just one article, there are thousands of articles and stories carried by Jewish controlled media that are evidence of hatred against recognized races of people.” He played another race card this week: “There are only two ways of dealing with the white man. One, either you pick up a gun, or you stand between the white man and his money.”
Let’s hope governments and police forces do their job on Canada Day weekend, tearing down any barricades as soon as they are put up and laying charges against anyone who breaks the law. With such lavish forewarning, there’s no excuse not to be prepared; this is no Caledonia-style surprise.
Read the full story here
Blocked
If I block my neighbour’s driveway and claim that his house is sitting on land that’s rightfully mine based on a story that my great-great-great grandfather used it and never actually got around to deeding it over to anyone else, or didn’t really know what deeding it over actually meant, I’d be lucky to get away with just an injunction to take the sawhorses down.
Regardless of what one might think about native land claims–and the history of conquest shows that they’ve been given much more consideration to their claims than most conquered peoples centuries after the fact–letting them get away with blockades only encourages more of the same, and worse. Around Caledonia, the OPP’s inaction has just kept the matter dragging and dragging on.
This story and much more at www.caledoniawakeupcall.com
Regardless of what one might think about native land claims–and the history of conquest shows that they’ve been given much more consideration to their claims than most conquered peoples centuries after the fact–letting them get away with blockades only encourages more of the same, and worse. Around Caledonia, the OPP’s inaction has just kept the matter dragging and dragging on.
This story and much more at www.caledoniawakeupcall.com
Figure out our native land
There are dire predictions that this will be a long hot summer of confrontation as aboriginal groups ramp up blockades and protests to push for action on some of their long-stalled land claims.
June 29 is the designated day of action, and there are protests threatened across the country. Assembly of First Nations national chief Phil Fontaine has called for speedy action on land claims in order to ease native anger.
Some people believe the system is working as it should.
Take, for example, the claim over the Douglas Creek Estates inCaledonia. That stalled from 1995-2001 because an aboriginal group took the federal government to court over it. It is a policy of the federal government that you can’t sue them and negotiate with them at the same time, so the negotiations broke off. That’s why there was no progress on the claim at that time.
As far as the feds are concerned, there was a valid surrender of the land by the Six Nations in 1844. They’re simply not negotiating over it any more. In an attempt to end the stand-off in the 40-hectare construction site that native activists are still occupying, federal officials have offered to discuss two other nearby land claims — but the activists have refused.
Read the full story here
June 29 is the designated day of action, and there are protests threatened across the country. Assembly of First Nations national chief Phil Fontaine has called for speedy action on land claims in order to ease native anger.
Some people believe the system is working as it should.
Take, for example, the claim over the Douglas Creek Estates inCaledonia. That stalled from 1995-2001 because an aboriginal group took the federal government to court over it. It is a policy of the federal government that you can’t sue them and negotiate with them at the same time, so the negotiations broke off. That’s why there was no progress on the claim at that time.
As far as the feds are concerned, there was a valid surrender of the land by the Six Nations in 1844. They’re simply not negotiating over it any more. In an attempt to end the stand-off in the 40-hectare construction site that native activists are still occupying, federal officials have offered to discuss two other nearby land claims — but the activists have refused.
Read the full story here
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Fight continues over Burtch lands; Families say property should not be given to Six Nations
Six Nations farmers say they’ll plant a crop at the former Burtch Correctional Centre this year, despite six area families arguing they are the property’s rightful owners. (Edit by Jeff: Isn’t this a land claim? Should the families set up blockades around the area now?)
Six Nations was given permission last year to use the land for agricultural purposes as a goodwill gesture by former Ontario premier David Peterson during negotiations to resolve the continuing native land occupation in Caledonia. (Edit by Jeff: Given to them as a bribe to take down the illegal blockades)
“One of the touchy subjects the farmers are trying to stay away from is whose name the land is in,” Hill said Tuesday.”It’s still in limbo, as I understand it.
The six families fighting for the return of Burtch would like the property turned into a natural area for public use, with Carolinian forest, wildlife ponds and an interpretive centre. The facility could be operated as a trust by members of the six families
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Six Nations was given permission last year to use the land for agricultural purposes as a goodwill gesture by former Ontario premier David Peterson during negotiations to resolve the continuing native land occupation in Caledonia. (Edit by Jeff: Given to them as a bribe to take down the illegal blockades)
“One of the touchy subjects the farmers are trying to stay away from is whose name the land is in,” Hill said Tuesday.”It’s still in limbo, as I understand it.
The six families fighting for the return of Burtch would like the property turned into a natural area for public use, with Carolinian forest, wildlife ponds and an interpretive centre. The facility could be operated as a trust by members of the six families
Read the full story here
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