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• Indian Affairs imposes new Chief and Council on Barriere Lake

  

  August 18, 2010  370 views 5 comments Share

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  Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) went ahead this week with its draconian drive to impose a new Chief and Council in the Algonquin community of Barriere Lake. According to Barriere Lake Solidarity, the government received somewhere between six and ten nomination mail-in ballots from a community of more than 450 people. In effect, less [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • Barriere Lake • Canada • INAC • Indigenous Peoples

• Barriere Lake Algonquins set up peaceful blockade

  

  July 22, 2010  378 views 8 comments Share

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  Early this morning, a group of Barriere Lake Algonquins set up a peaceful blockade on the access road leading to their reserve, about 300 km north of Ottawa. The defensive action was aimed at stopping a government-appointed electoral officer from holding a nomination meeting on the reserve for the government's highly-controversial imposed Band Council Election. [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • Barriere Lake • blockades • Indigenous Peoples

• Barriere Lake Algonquins have the right to govern themselves

  

  June 20, 2010  378 views 4 comments Share

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  The Canadian government is getting ready to dispose of the Barriere Lake Algonquin's traditional governance system, using a rarely invoked piece of the Indian Act known as Section 74. As if jumping back to 1876, the Canadian government has invoked Section 74 of the Indian Act, a draconian measure that grants the minister of Indian [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • Algonquins • Barriere Lake • Canada • forestry • Indigenous Peoples

• Algonquins set for peaceful, indefinite blockade

  

  September 1, 2009  1,716 views 7 comments Share

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  The Algonquins of Barriere lake have announced plans to set up an indefinite roadblock on their land---beginning today, September 1, 2009. In a press statement (below), the northern Quebec First Nation says the roadblock, aimed at preventing logging on their traditional lands, will continue "until Quebec implements agreements covering forestry on Barriere Lake’s lands, and [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • Barriere Lake • blockades • Canada • foresty

• We will not tolerate another coup in Barriere Lake!

  

  July 14, 2009  1,607 views 4 comments Share

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  Please take FIVE MINUTES to DEMAND the Algonquins of Barriere Lake have their legitimate leadership recognized!!! JOIN the community and Barriere Lake Solidarity in showing the Department of Indian Affairs that we will not tolerate another coup d’etat in Barriere Lake! After 15 months of struggling against the Canadian Government's attempted coup in Barriere Lake, [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • Barriere Lake • Canada • Indigenous Peoples

• Consultation means nothing without consent

  

  June 16, 2009  1,765 views 0 Comments Share

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  Three First Nation Band Councils released a joint statement last month in response to the newly proposed Ontario Mining Act, once again raising a critical issue that the Government of Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly failed to recognize: The right to Say NO. In effect, the absence of this right (the [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • Attawapiskat • business • Canada • Indigenous Peoples • KIFN • mining • Mushkegowuk

• Federal Court Motion Won by Elders Council of Barriere Lake

  

  January 19, 2009  1,514 views 0 Comments Share

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  Earlier this month, a Federal Court Judge ruled in favour of the Barriere Lake Algonquins, calling into question Indian and Northern Affairs (INAC) 2008 decision to replace the First Nation's traditionally-elected Chief and Council with a 'minority faction.' The leadership dispute is still far from over, however the ruling outlines a set of points that [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • Barriere Lake • Canada • court rulings • Indigenous Peoples • Traditions