When one thinks of the Olympics, we conjure up images of honour, integrity, and fair play.

It’s a time when athletes from around the world gather to challenge themselves, to try and set new world records, and to even ‘bring home the gold!’

As citizens, we’re led to believe it’s a privilege to play host for the games. We’re endlessly encouraged to attend and share in this new-found Olympic pride; and as tourists we’re even given the chance to take some of it back home with us—in the form of t-shirts, …

Please find enclosed the press release regarding Harriet Nahannee’s death as a direct result of her incarceration. The call for a public inquiry to answer the below questions has gone out and we are also forwarding it to the European Support groups, who are looking into a campaign on Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples especially in light of the 2010 Olympics being railroaded into Aboriginal Territories and Harriet losing her life trying to stop it.

As you all know elder and environmental activist, Betty Krawczyk, 78, will be sentenced by the same judge, Mme Justice Brown, who sent Harriet to jail …

First Nations Activist Dies After Release from Jail
By Zoe Blunt, www.zoeblunt.gnn.tv
24 Feb 2007

In memory of Harriet Nahanee, age 71

VANCOUVER - A community is in mourning following news of the death of a great-grandmother who fought to defend aboriginal rights and the environment. Activist Harriet Nahanee died at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver on Saturday, February 24, one month after she was sentenced to fourteen days in jail for protesting the destruction of a wetlands for a highway bypass.

The woman who once said that natives need an “aboriginal Malcolm X” to restore their pride will be

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