Protest politics

Article Abstract:

Native Canadian protesters have established blockades outside several rural British Columbia (BC) towns to call attention to the failure of aboriginal affairs officials to settle native land claims. While non-natives resent the blockades, most BC residents support a treaty with natives.

Native North Americans, Native people's land claims, Indigenous people's land claims

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At the watershed: Assembly of First Nations Chief Ovide Mercredi warns that the trend to confrontation is growing

Article Abstract:

Mercredi denounces the militant violence in the spate of confrontations between native and non-native groups in Canada in 1995. Yet he also disfavors the government's handling of Indian affairs. He believes the government must treat natives as equals in reaching a compromise.

Interview, Mercredi, Ovide

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Showdown

Article Abstract:

Canadian Native Americans are becoming more militant against government forces in their quest for land tenure and other rights. At Gustafsen Lake in BC, native group members fired at police officers. Compromise between the government and native groups seems nowhere in sight.

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