Rastia'ta'non:ha, Seneca Nation man; wolf clan and supporters, sit amid a circle of fallen red oaks cradled within the confines of manmade hillocks and valleys on a beautiful High Park afternoon. This sensitive, natural habitat has been stripped of grass, the manmade dips and high points of this once beautiful environment lie barren and desolate. A dead tree stump at the top of the mound stands sentinel to the desecration, large oaks, birch and aspen over arch the place in seeming sadness.

Concerned settlers' of Waterloo Region on the Grand River Territory are organizing a teach-in before and after Christie Blatchford speaks about her new book Helpless: Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy and How the Law Failed All of Us at the University of Waterloo. Blatchford's book is very problematic as it dismisses and delegitimizes the history of the Six Nations peoples and Euro-American settlers by focusing only on the neo-conservative concept of law and order. But we are asking whose law and whose order? We are organizing this teach-in to provide the context and historical background that Blatchford negates. We will have a variety of resources available as well so that you may research this on your own and provide you with further avenues for participation.

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.