The Wilfrid Laurier Memorial was a dictated letter addressed to Prime Minister Laurier in 1910 which outlined the grievances and history of the first century of contact with non-Aboriginal people from a First Nations perspective. Laurier read it, promised to meet the chiefs who created it, but lost the federal election a year later. His successor, Sir Robert Borden, never followed through with this promise.
The area surrounding the town of Caledonia, Ontario, has been this province’s ground-zero when it comes to First Nations land claim issues.
A 200-year land claim dispute between the government and the Six Nations came to the mainstream media’s attention in the winter of 2006, when Six Nations protesters occupied the Douglass Creek Estates (a residential development) to defend their rights to the land.
The Oka Crisis was a standoff between the Mohawk Nation of Kanesatake and Canadian security forces that began on July 11, 1990, after the Mohawk Warrior society reclaimed a burial ground from developers in the town of Oka, Quebec.
The Haldimand Tract is a strip of land that runs the length of the Grand River that is 10km deep on each side. It was granted to the Six Nations Confederacy in recognition of their loyalty to the British Crown during the American Revolution. The Haldimand Tract is central to the ongoing land claims struggle of the Six Nations with the surrounding settler communities, provincial and federal governments.
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