Protests about Barriere Lake continue.
Algonquin
A daughter wants justice for her mother's death
Algonquin elder Gladys Tolley was killed by a police car driving through her reserve in 2001. Her daughter still fights for answers.
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Outrage as Ottawa company cuts down Beaver Pond Forest
Just a 20 minute drive west of Parliament Hill in the nation's capital lies Beaver Pond, an old-growth forest that according to First Nations is of historic and spiritual significance.
The forest is also home to what archaeologists estimate to be a 10,000 year-old stone circle. But according to reports, as of Monday the 1,100-hectare wilderness is being "clear-cut" -- all to make room for a new subdivision.
It isn't only First Nations who value this land. Surrounded by suburbs, the land is used by area residents for walking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and mountain biking.
Stop Canada's cultural genocide at Barriere Lake
Canada and Quebec are waging a war of attrition on a small band of 500 Algonquin Indians a few hours north of Ottawa. Today, this war has reached a critical juncture: its outcome will be a judgment on whether Canada is able to share the land with First Nations while respecting their right to maintain their cultures and determine their own destinies, or whether Canada can only offer resilient Aboriginal cultures a menu of assimilation, dependency, and cultural death.
February 27, 2012 |
On March 6th come hear about the long-standing resistance of Mitchikanibikok Inik, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, to forced assimilation and cultural extinction.
Speaking out against an unwanted Quebec mine
The Algonquin community of Barriere Lake, Quebec, have for weeks been confronting a new threat to their unceded indigenous territory.
Cartier Resources -- a Val d'Or based corporation -- has begun line-cutting in preparation for its mining exploration. According to its website, the mining company claims that their "100 per cent owned" land base of 439 sq. km boasts rich copper deposits ripe for exploitation.
The question is, owned by who?
Algonquins of Barriere Lake vs. Section 74 of the Indian Act
Barriere Lake Solidarity has produced this video to help bring attention to the current struggle by the Algonquins of Barriere Lake (ABL) against the Canadian government's imposition of Section 74 of the Indian Act. By enacting this obscure piece of the Act, the Canadian government is attempting to take control of the community by imposing band council elections on the community. The ABL have always had their own customary government.
For more information, visit:
barrierelakesolidarity.org
Bridget Tolley's search for justice for her mother
Bridget Tolley is an Algonquin grandmother of five from the Kitigan Zibi reserve in so-called Quebec. On Oct. 5, 2001, Her mother Gladys was struck and killed on the reserve by a Quebec Police cruiser. Since then, Tolley has been fighting for accountability, seeking justice for her mother.
Algonquin Sacred Fire at the Beaver Pond
Algonquin Daniel Bernard "Amikwabe" set up a camp to keep a Sacred Fire burning round the clock next to the entrance of the Beaver Pond forest in Kanata. This is a personal initiative "to denounce the massacre of the wildlife and this sacred forest" in response to a declaration by Algonquin Elder William Commanda that the forest is sacred. Read the full story here.
