From January to March 2020, a series of civil disobedience protests were held in Canada over the construction of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline through 190 kilometres of Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation territ
A banner at Unistʼotʼen camp in 2012
Banner for an event in solidarity with the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs at York University on March 11
Mohawk protesters by the level crossing at Wyman Road in Tyendinaga. This blockade along a critical rail line led to CNR shutting down its network in eastern Canada.
Oka Crisis
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The Oka Crisis, also known as the Mohawk Crisis or Kanehsatà:ke Resistance, was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, over plans to build a golf course o
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…Treaty rights – Indigenous rights stipulated in treaties with settler societies Oka Crisis – 1990 land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada Grand River land dispute – Dispute over Indigenous land rights…
Canadian soldiers and Sûreté du Québec officers on 3 September 1990
Members of the Seton Lake Indian Band blockade the BC Rail line in support of Oka, while an RCMP officer looks on. Later in the day, several elders protesting were arrested, and a confrontation with the band community ensued as Mounties drove the cars holding those arrested through the reserve en route to Lillooet.