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August 18, 2008

Nuclear and Indigenous Items of Interest

Posted on August 18, 2008 by gregornot

An Open Letter to Canada and All First Nation Leaders

It’s well known that Canada perpetuates discrimination against indigenous people at every level of government, but what does it mean when that discrimination causes the death of innocent people? Death that is enshrouded in bureaucracy, covered up by the government, and ignored by the so-called leaders?

Shelley Brant, from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in southern Ontario, reaches for an answer in this open letter:

An Open Letter to Canada and All First Nation Leaders

Wednesday August 6th, 2008

The recent questionable killing of yet another First Nations man, Craig McDougall 26 by police in Winnipeg has led me to write this letter:

How many more inquiries and bodies is it going to take???? How many more unimplemented recommendations???? How many more police lies and cover-ups supported by the governments in this so called great country before people wake up to the truth????? How many more planted weapons in the media and on our own people?????

This is the list of First Nations people killed by police across Canada and some have led to inquiries and some haven’t and is probably not even a complete list:

Frank Paul, a 47-year-old Mik’maq man - Vancouver- Vancouver police officer dragged the man, soaking wet and unconscious, from the downtown holding cells and dumped him in an alley across town. - Paul had died of hypothermia accelerated by acute alcohol poisoning.

Dudley George, aged 38, - Ipperwash - Ontario - was killed by a police sniper during a Native land protest at Ipperwash Provincial Park.

Craig McDougall 26 - Winnipeg - shot 4 times by police while on a cell phone with his girlfriend.

Matthew Dumas, an 18-year-old Anishnabe, - Winnipeg - was pepper-sprayed, shot twice and killed by a Winnipeg Police officer.

Dennis St. Paul - Norway House Cree Nation reserve - Winnipeg - shot and killed by the RCMP.

Donald Miles - Winnipeg - shot and killed by police.

Howard Fleury - Winnipeg - shot and killed by police.

John Joseph Harper - Winnipeg - shot and killed by police.

Helen Betty Osbourne 16 - The Pas- police complicity in the murder case of Cree teen The Pas Manitoba.

Neil Stone child 17 - Saskatoon - inquiry was released, stating that the Saskatoon police investigation into the 1990 freezing death of the 17-year-old - Saskatoon.

Rodney Naistus and Lawrence Wegner - Saskatoon- whose bodies were also found on the outskirts of town in February, 2000

Geronimo Fobister at the Anishnabe - Ontario - reserve of Grassy Narrows

Lorraine Jacobsen 40 - British Columbia - on a Kwagiutl reserve at Alert Bay - shot and killed by police.

Gerald Chenery, a Nisga’ man - Vancouver - was shot 12 times and killed by two Vancouver cops

Michael Langan , Metis 19 - Winnipeg- Death by police taser

You stepped into Iraq with the U.S. because of a dictator who was killing his own people, yet there is no difference between mustard gas and police bullets, they are both a permanent means of death, which makes you no better!!!!!

Perhaps someone should invade Canada and come to the aid of the First Nations people in this country who are at the mercy of it’s governments and their police forces, just as Canada comes to the aid of people in other countries for the same reasons.

I will say right now that I am ashamed to live in a country so full of hatred and racism, to the point where you can’t even trust the very people who are suppose to protect you which are the police not to shoot to kill because you are a First Nations person. There is case after case after case of First Nations people being killed by police who lie and cover up their deaths, only for the ugly truth to come out later yet they get exonerated and you would like people to think these are isolated incidents. They are not, they are country wide and you turn a blind eye because it might stain your quaint reputation.

Well I am here to tell you: your secret is out and now we know why the U.N Declaration of Indigenous Rights did not get signed by Canada don’t we. It’s because in Canada we are not considered humans so therefore why should we have any rights that might empower us??????

It is quite apparent that the lives of First Nations people mean nothing in this country and I am ashamed to say it also doesn’t mean a lot to the Native leaders of this country either. If it did the people would not be left on their own to speak out on police killings or attempts, yet they remain silent, all except one group decrying the deaths of two recent First Nations men in Winnipeg.

My point???? This going on all across Canada and where is the public outcry from the First Nations leaders???????? It’s going on right here in Ontario, where is the public outcry from the First Nations leaders?????? Have we become so colonized and politicized that the human lives of our own people boil down to who they are???? Does one life means more than another????? Are we so afraid that we might not get a vote or that the government might deny us something that we can’t even speak out and stand up for what is wrong in this country together, even when life and death is at stake??????

Silence means consent as far as I am concerned and if we have lost the meaning and value of human lives, the lives of our own people then we have completely lost who we are as a people. We might as well quit the nation talk and quit the cultural talk and quit the talk about who we are as a people because they are just words, your actions as leaders of all the nations across this country tell me there is nothing left worthy of fighting for. The only things left are an illusion and come from the outside, which has no meaning when it comes to being a First Nations person in this country. I will stand here today and say that I am no longer proud to be a Mohawk woman whose leaders can’t even stand up and do what’s right for their own people and that goes for the rest of the leaders across the country too.

I hang my head in shame at both this country and the First Nations leaders it has produced who would rather be silent than stand together with their own people who are systematically being killed by the police in this country!!!!!!!!!

Canada you can take your apology and stick it where the sun don’t shine because they are just mere words that mean nothing and perhaps in another 100 years rather than do something about the deaths of First Nations people at the hands of police now, you can apologize again!!!!!!

Shelley Brant
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

May 27, 2008

How I spent Memorial Day ..

The government will NOT allow me to upload the poster for today's Queen Park event.

They've turned off my photo button on blogger entirely after repeated attempts to upload the poster. Isn't that INTERESTING ?? Partly it's the time of day, as the information warfare people are usually busy after midnight, although I've noticed that their alot more militant in recent days at all times of the day or night.

Today, the sun was magnificent and warm. The spirit was high. The music was passionate and the dancers stretched their limbs in the rhythm of the Universe. HOPE and vitality reached into the Ontario sky.

Thomas King was the master of ceremonies and I spoke with him. We spoke of Pat Amo and Paul Wellstone. We spoke of Leonard Peltier. I explained I am not comfortable being in Canada and need a true mentor !

I spoke to several Toronto students and asked them to come and help me straighten out this blog. I was thrilled when one student leader handed me a four directions button that said "Students for Justice". All students there expressed a similar perspective: a WAR CRIMES tribunal is inevitable and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY must be stopped. (well, of course!) Our vision is stronger than the power that be's bottom line.

The true spirit of Kanata was there. Toronto truly hailed it's true name - "The meeting place". I think I have come home at last. I no longer felt "invisible".

Leaders were missed, leaders who languish in jail and face 12-sentences for DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Surprisingly, I only saw one person I know there, but over the course of the week I expect to meet some "old faces" I know ..

We can never give up. We will stand firm in our resolve.

I expect to find myself on the concourse of the Toronto Star on Friday. Even my interpol computer entry as a "jet set drug dealer" can't deter me anymore ! I have nothing to lose by being who I am and I support my brothers and sisters.

Ontario is now on the front line in ending globalization and fighting colonialism. The powers that be know that are frightened out of their wits as we build our ranks.

I go to light smudge now, praying for ALL peoples and thanking Creator that I have come this far.

Virginia

Aboriginal protesters kick off weeklong protest at Ont. legislature

May 26, 2008 - 7:43 pm

By: Tobi Cohen, THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO - The property rights of all Ontario residents are being threatened by archaic mining laws that allow companies to stake land anywhere they like, aboriginal protesters said Monday before a swelling crowd that gathered on a the front lawn of the provincial legislature to demand change.

And if the province doesn't act now to change the Mining Act, politicians can expect another Ipperwash, an emotional Darryl Sainnawap, one of six Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation members who were jailed over a dispute with a mining exploration company said in reference to the infamous 1995 aboriginal standoff that ended in the fatal shooting of protester Dudley George by police.

Among the guests of honour at the multi-day sit-in that's expected to culminate with Thursday's national aboriginal Day of Action, Sainnawap thanked the crowd for supporting him while he was in jail and called on the government to negotiate.

"I personally want to call on the provincial government to come to the table and see if we can find a resolution,"

he said before the mass of several hundred, which included aboriginal groups from across the province and beyond as well as labour groups and environmentalists.

"But I would also like to say our land comes first... Ontario says get on board, get out of the way, or go to jail. We cannot compromise our children's future."

Sainnawap, along with KI Chief Donny Morris, deputy chief Jack McKay and members Sam McKay, Cecilia Begg and Bruce Sakakeep, were all released from jail temporarily on Friday after agreeing to abide by an injunction that prohibits them from interfering with the operations of Platinex Inc., a mining company that's seeking to drill on KI land about 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont.

The decision was made only after Platinex promised not to bring an exploration crew onto the disputed land before 9 a.m. Thursday.

The group dubbed the KI 6 is due back in court Wednesday where they are appealing their six-month sentence for contempt of court. The Ontario Appeals Court could decide they've served enough time and release them or send them back to jail to serve out the remainder of their sentence.

The brief reprieve, however, gave them the opportunity to join fellow KI members as well as colleagues from Ardoch Algonquin First Nations in eastern Ontario and Grassy Narrows First Nation near Kenora, Ont. All three groups organized the event, originally aimed in part at calling for their release.

Bob Lovelace of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation still remains in jail in solitary confinement on a hunger strike for a similar breach involving a uranium exploration company.

The group called for his release and also played a recording he made from jail to share with the crowd.

In it, Lovelace called for an end to "colonialism" and compared the situation of Canada's aboriginals to that of organized labour and apartheid South Africa.

"Our time is now and I say that any political party or government in Canada that defends and perpetuates colonialism is not fit to govern," he said to much applause.

Earlier in the day, Morris said he was anticipating a peaceful event, though he suggested organizers were getting some blow back from authorities.

Morris said it was curious that security guards were giving them a hard time about using tent pegs on the lawn of the legislature, yet mining companies could stake their land any time they like.

"They've been throwing hurdles in our way from what I gather. Trying to discourage us from doing this," he said, adding he's "directed the membership to hold back."

"I'm not trying to encourage violence or foul language... I like the way we're travelling right now on the road. Peaceful, trying to communicate, putting out press releases, using the Internet. That's how I want to work."

Noting Ontario came to his community in 1929 to sign a treaty, Morris said KI ought to be involved in the revamping of the Mining Act and suggested there's been no such consultation as of yet.

He also encouraged non-aboriginals to get involved as it's an issue that comes down to property rights and the environment which effect everybody.

"If you have private property, a cottage on a lake, you are in the same boat as us," he said. "You don't own the land."

Toting flags and placards, the protesters erected three teepees on the lawn and are expected to camp out overnight and spend the coming days holding traditional aboriginal ceremonies as well as workshops. Guest speakers are also expected throughout the week.

Premier Dalton McGuinty reaffirmed earlier in the day that the province is committed to changing the Mining Act, but that it will take time.

He said current laws are very much tied into the economy but he nonetheless recognizes the government must also take into account aboriginal and environmental concerns.

"I think it falls on my generation of leadership to do something about this because I don't think what we have in place is... in keeping with our standards, our values and our aspirations," he said, adding changing it will have a "ripple effect" on jobs.

"We can't just dismiss that."

February 12, 2008

PHONE ACTIVISM to stop uranium mining and support First Nations

SLIMEY "BOTTOM FEEDER" CAUGHT IN SHARBOT LAKE
SLIMEY “BOTTOM FEEDER” CAUGHT IN SHARBOT LAKE MNN Sharbot Lake. Feb. 10, 2008. The phoney “Algonquin” protest to stop a uranium mine at Robertsville, near Sharbot Lake, has started up again. The original protest encampment at the mine gates started last summer. It’s one hour north of Kingston Ontario. Chief Doreen Davis of “Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation”, Robert Lovelace of “Ardoch Algonquins” and six other people face charges in mid February for contempt of court and a $77 million lawsuit launched by Frontenac Ventures Corp. The land in question is the area south of the Ottawa River which is part of Haudenosaunee Territory of the Mohawk Nation. The “Algonquin” visitors are claiming this land and trying to make a settlement with Ontario and Canada. Who is Rem Westland? Why is he concerned about what MNN writes? He contacted MNN. He has a cottage at Sharbot Lake. He graduated from the Royal Military College in Kingston in 1970. He taught at Carleton University in Ottawa and then entered the civil service. He worked at the Privy Council Office (PCO) from 1989 to 1991. He became Director General of Claims and Treaty Land Entitlement at Indian Affairs from 1991 to 1995. He became Director General at Ontario Aboriginal Affairs from 1995 to 1997. this guy sure knows how to rise to the top and siphon off the cream. At National Defense he became Director General of Realty Policy and Plans and then Assistant Deputy Minister from 1998 to 1999. What a choice resume! Don’t you just wonder how he got to be born under such a lucky colonial star! The Privy Council Office (PCO) is made up of unelected people who run the government behind the scenes. There are 16 secretariats with catchy Orwellian names like "Social Development Policy", "Machinery of Government", "Foreign and Defense Policy, "Security and Intelligence" and "Orders in Council". They write policies and give information to the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers. In other words, these are the guys that pull the strings. Forget about Demcoracy 101. They issue a lot of “Orders in Council”. This is a nifty way to do an end run around Parliament. It lets the shady powers that be do as they please. Rem Westland has been involved in military and colonial confrontations with Indigenous communities like the Mohawk Oka Crisis in 1990, “Ipperwash” in 1995 and nuclear testing at “ Nanoose Bay ” in 1999 in British Columbia. After the Mohawk Oka crisis Rem moved on to Indian Affairs and became the Director General of Claims and Treaty Land Entitlement. His associates were Indian Affairs Deputy Minister Dan Goodleaf [a Canadian of Mohawk ancestry from Kahnawake] and Associate Deputy Minister Rick Van Loon, all Mulroney appointees. They did everything they could to force Liberal Minister of Indian Affairs Ron Irwin to hand over the Lubicon Cree of Alberta issue to their pre-prepared base at the Justice Department. According to Fred Lennarson, advisor to the Lubicon Cree for over 25 years, "Federal negotiators deliberately broke down Lubicon negotiations in January of 1989 with a "take-it-or-leave-it" offer. They knew it was unacceptable as it made no provision for the Lubicon Cree to become economically self-sufficient." Then Indian Affairs created the “Woodland and Loon Cree First Nations” nearby to throw the Lubicon claim into total confusion. The Woodland Cree leadership was offered $30,000 for every Lubicon they could recruit to join them. Doesn’t that sound familiar? Rem was at Ontario Aboriginal Affairs when Dudley George was murdered by the Ontario Provincial Police at Ipperwash on September 6 1995. Rem’s name comes up in the Ipperwash Inquiry Report as a shady government character throwing his weight around. How do you like that? In 1998 to 1999 at National Defense Rem as Assistant Deputy Minister of Infrastructure & Environment and Director General of Realty Policy & Plans oversaw five other directorships: Nuclear Safety; Environment; Military Engineering; Infrastructure & Environment which includes Human Resources, information management and language quality; and Canadian Forces Housing Agency. Is that why their houses are almost as bad as the Ongwehonwe. Hey, man! This guy’s got more power than the Prime Minister. At Nanoose Bay Rem negotiated the Nanoose Expropriation crisis in 1999. The U.S. military leased the area to test nuclear torpedoes in the Georgia Straits off Vancouver Island. The lease was going to end in 1999. The U.S. wanted to renew it so they could keep their nukes splashing around in the bay and their nuclear submarines cruising the waters. Each sub, two football fields long, can carry and launch enough nuclear missiles to "destroy every capital city in the northern hemisphere." [Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility] "...Naval nuclear reactors in BC contain as much radiation in their core as several nuclear bombs, and use uranium fuel 133 times more enriched than a CANDU reactor. Nine nuclear propulsion reactors already litter the ocean floor along with 50 "lost" nuclear war heads”. OMG! That is dangerous! The sea water is going to eat into them. What a legacy for the future generations! Westland signed an agreement with B.C. negotiator Lorne Seitz to keep nukes out of Nanoose Bay. David Anderson revoked it, which probably was the plan. The Pentagon gives $1 a year to Ottawa who turned it over to B.C. for the rent. We hope B.C. doesn’t go crazy over this windfall! As Director General of Realty Policy and Plans from 1997 to 2003, Rem predicted and reported on "realty support" for defense, such as "lands, facilities and works". Facilities include bio-defense and research labs such as MREL [Mining Research Engineering Limited] at the Robertsville mine site. Last July the Mohawks caught MREL making and testing bombs and radiation dispersal devices. Nearby the military practiced maneuvers on a swing bridge at Ragged Chutes. Works includes roads, water and utilities. There is an army base, prisons, military colleges, universities and other military support institutions throughout the area. They need to get us out so they can set up extensive military installations on Haudenosaunee territory for who knows what? Once the bit of uranium is dug up at Sharbot Lake and the people have fled the radiation, what military plans are in place to inflate Canada 's self-proclaimed image as an "energy and military superpower"? Rem gathers financial, legislative and legal information for Defense. He has the Indian Affairs and Defense background to grease the wheels involving the pretend "Algonquins", the uranium mining companies and the military establishment. He is now vice-president of “Corporate Research Group” as “team leader for Aboriginal Affairs”. They have contracts with Indian Affairs to pave an agreement between the Quebec Crees and Canada and Quebec for more dams and hydroelectric development on the many great rivers in Cree territory. Rem’s specialty is to advise Aboriginal groups to buy land or businesses. If the Aboriginal group is in good standing with government officials, he can arrange financing. Rem and his company advise the colonial governments, agencies and multinationals on how to cut to the chase by separating rights and business agendas. It sounds like he can ram through a uranium mine before any Native land claim is ever settled. In his association with the Sharbot Lake Property Owners Association he publicly takes the environmentalist's point of view, but does the opposite behind the scenes. The association is part of the Federation of Ontario Cottagers Association (FOCA) committe which is currently reviewing the Ontario Mining Act. They want subsurface rights for their "properties" so they can decide on a uranium mine instead of prospectors coming in with $25 claims. What about the real owners of this beautiful area, the Haudenosaunee? Who are the other property “owners” working with him. Rem doesn’t work alone! Rem sent a very telling email to MNN on February 8th: "I think the "Algonquin Claim" negotiations are very vulnerable, and will not settle, for a very long time...unless the parties … feed the historical facts onto the negotiations table. There is a great reluctance to do this … because there is a great big fiction going on which works well enough for some people..." [Is he referring to himself. Robert Lovelace and Doreen Davis, to name a few?] "What should really be a Mohawk/Huron/Algonquin [Haudenosaunee] claim in the Frontenacs is misrepresented as an Algonquin claim - and people of First Nations descent must register as Algonquin to participate - simply for reasons of… historical denial…. because the record is very clear that the Algonquin did not have residency after the Mohawk came in [with the Hurons who are also Haudenosaunee. Both were there forever], and [the Algonquin] only began to establish residency long after contact. It serves the purpose of governments (federal and provincial) to support the fiction of continuous Algonquin presence." Canada and Ontario put funds through “Algonquin Nation Negotiations Directorate” ANND, incorporated by Ontario, to pay for this fraud to steal Haudenosaunee territory. The ANND board is native and non-native. MNN answered Rem on February 8th as follows: “You seem to be making the assumption that "settling" your fraudulent claims to our land is desirable for our people. Can't you see how unsettling it is? As you yourself admit, this is Haudenosaunee land. There is nothing to settle and never will be. All you have to do is just stop lying about history. That’s all there is to it! “There is no legitimate Algonquin land claim in that area as everyone knows. There is no point getting back to square one because there is no square one. The whole deal is a totally non-sensical fraudulent scam. Are you the architect of all this b.s.? “…There's no doubt about it, everyone involved is committing a crime. They have knowledge that they do not own what they are dealing with and they have the intent to dispossess us, the rightful owners. You know full well that we never gave you or anyone else the right to negotiate for our land. There is nothing to talk about. Go home and stop making money from everything that you are stealing from us. You are scamming the Canadian public, … chattering about something that you know nothing about and have less authority over it than a blue jay sitting in the tree where his ancestors have nested for millenia. “ … go back to wherever your ancestors came from and look after your ancestral homeland which must be neglected because you have been here far too long. … go there and [see] if you really believe that your lethal military bases and chemical weapons are good for humanity, go sell it to your own relatives. “ … you'd better stay off Haudenosaunee land if you have a single honest bone left in your body. You are a trespassing interloper and a bad guest. We know what you’ve done. Because of this, you are not welcome”. kahentinetha Rem told MNN this mediation was supposed to be a “done deal”. The truth MNN put out derailed the criminal conspiracy. How many scumbags like Rem are running around doing all this dirty work for their corporate masters? You guys can’t hide forever. You’ll be found and outed! You may be able to fool a few people right now, but the coming generations will be able to see what you’ve been up to - if you don’t destroy the earth, that is! The Canadian government seems to be a magnet for crooks. The courts are biased in favor of the bureaucracy. They've supported the illegal colonization of Indigenous peoples for centuries. How can such criminal opportunism be stopped? Iakoha'ko:wa near Sharbot Lake, Haudenosaunee Territory Write Rem at . Or call him at 613 748-3945 (home) or 613 596-2910 x525 (office) or 613 279-2143 (cottage). His mailing address is 157 Acacia Ave., Rockcliffe, ON K1M 0R4 Sources and Notes: http://www.ccnr.org; http://www.dnd.ca; http://www.nisto.com; http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca; http://www.slpoa.ca; http://www.thecrg.com; http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca;[/b]
poster: katenies

December 21, 2007

Dudley George death nets a victory in the jaws of death!

Ipperwash land returned to Indians

NORA PENHALE/CPIMAGES PHOTO/MINISTRY OF ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS

Sam George, left, brother of the late Dudley George, participates in a drum circle with Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant and native leaders after the announcement yesterday.

Twelve years after he was shot to death by police at Ipperwash, Dudley George finally has vindication

Dec 21, 2007 04:30 AM

Kerry Gillespie
Queen's Park Bureau

Dudley George has finally won.

But "he paid an awful price," says his brother Sam.

"He gave his life for the burial grounds, for the people of our communities," Sam George said of Dudley, who was shot to death on Sept. 6, 1995 by an OPP sniper during a police raid to break up an occupation by natives at Ipperwash Provincial Park.

But angry recriminations were put aside yesterday when the province announced it would return the park lands to the native community.

"I and my family would like to thank the people of Ontario," George said.

"By returning these (lands), by keeping a treaty promise, and by honouring the memory of our brother Dudley, we are respecting each other and it shows that we can be friends."

Returning the 56-hectare property to its original owners is the beginning of a better relationship with Ontario's native communities, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant said, flanked by George and Tom Bressette, chief of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation.

"The historic and spiritual importance of that land to the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation cannot be understated," Bryant said, at Queen's Park yesterday.

"We recognize, in the Ontario government, how important this land is to First Nations. It is time to act."

The province is also forming a committee that will include native and community members to decide how to act on recommendations from the Ipperwash inquiry into George's death.

"We have got to all live, work, go to school and exist together in this province," Bryant said.

"We're all in the same canoe. We have got to find a way, where there is friction, to live together."

What will ultimately happen to the provincial park lands still remains to be seen though.

For now, the land will be "co-managed" by the province and the Chippewas, in consultation with the surrounding community, Bryant said.

During the Second World War, the federal government expropriated land adjoining Ipperwash park to build a military base. Native families, including Dudley George's family, were moved to Kettle Point reserve and told their land would be returned after the war.

In 1995, Dudley George and other natives occupied the park to protest Ottawa's failure to return the expropriated land and to protect sacred burial grounds. George, 38, died when OPP members fired on the protesters.

Yesterday, no one was willing to say whether the property, closed since the occupation in 1995, would ever be open to the public again.

"Neighbours working together (will) forge the future of that land," Bryant said.

Then "over a period of time" – no word on when – ownership of the land will be turned over to the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point and the fate of the park will be entirely in their hands.

Ipperwash is a "particularly special" case but Byrant suggested this kind of model could be used as a way to move forward in other land disputes such as the current occupation of a housing development in Caledonia, Ont.

Sam George thinks his brother's highly publicized death on provincially owned land forced the government to act.

"I think his death did speed up things quite rapidly," George said.

History of the dispute

1827: Southwestern Ontario natives give up 99 per cent of their land for the promise that the remaining 1 per cent would be theirs "in perpetuity."

1928: Speculator buys parcel of land from natives.

1936: Province buys the parcel of land to create a park and assures Stoney Point natives that sacred burial grounds will be respected.

1942: Federal government evicts 18 native families from Stoney Point reserve, adjoining Ipperwash Provincial Park, so a military training base can be built. The natives, including the family of Anthony (Dudley) George, are moved to Kettle Point reserve and are promised their land will be returned when World War II ends. Ottawa joins the two bands, calling it the Kettle and Stony Point Band, taking the "e" out of Stoney.

1972: Jean Chrétien, then Indian affairs minister, warns that officials should respect Stoney Point burial grounds and return the military base or face native protests.

1980: Ottawa pays Kettle and Stony Point band $2.5 million, saying it will return land when military no longer needs camp.

1992: Stoney Point natives serve army with eviction notice. Stoney Pointers are descendants of the original inhabitants of Stoney Point, who reject attempts to join band with nearby Kettle Point.

1993: Family members of former residents, including George, move into Camp Ipperwash.

July 29, 1995: Military moves out of military base.

Sept. 4, 1995: About two-dozen Stoney Pointers, including George, walk into Ipperwash park, saying they are protecting sacred burial grounds.

Sept. 6, 1995: George shot dead by acting Sgt. Kenneth Deane.

April 28, 1997: Deane found guilty of criminal negligence causing death after judge rules the officer knew George was unarmed. Deane, who is sentenced to 180 hours of community service, dies in a 2006 traffic accident.

April 21, 2004: Inquiry opens in town of Forest.

November 2005: Former attorney general Charles Harnick testifies that he heard former premier Mike Harris utter a slur against natives at a meeting hours before the death of George. Harris is alleged to have said "I want the f---ing Indians out of the park."

February 2006: Harris tells inquiry he did not give any directions to OPP on Ipperwash operations.

Toronto Star files