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Thursday September 6, 2017

September 6, 2017 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday September 6, 2017

Blockade down in Caledonia

An Indigenous barricade that blocked a main thoroughfare in Caledonia for close to a month has been dismantled.

July 31, 2013

Ontario Provincial Police say they asked demonstrators to leave the Highway 6 bypass Monday night.

“Once we responded, they eventually dispersed … on their own,” OPP spokesperson Const. Rodney LeClair said Tuesday.

The protesters had moved their roadblock from its original location at Argyle Street South to the Highway 6 bypass earlier Monday.

LeClair said police responded that evening because a “group was gathering” and using tires and trees to block a stretch of the bypass, which runs between Greens Road and Argyle Street South.

No one was arrested or injured, he said.

May 8, 2006

The OPP reopened Hwy. 6 Tuesday afternoon after the Ministry of Transportation’s maintenance contractor cleared the road.

LeClair said he hadn’t been told if demonstrators were still occupying the area around the bypass Tuesday.

“We’re remaining in the area just to preserve the peace like we’ve said from the onset, just maintain public safety,” he said.

Protesters who support the Six Nations hereditary government, known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, set up the barricade on Argyle Street South — Caledonia’s major thoroughfare — Aug. 10.

April 23, 2006

This spot — just south of town at the entrance of the former Douglas Creek Estates — is where a larger, more intense blockade and standoff took place in 2006 over land claims.

Indigenous people have renamed the site Kanonhstaton, “the protected place.”

This time around, demonstrators have said they were protesting the Ontario government’s transfer of a 154-hectare property known as the Burtch lands to the Six Nations Elected Band Council instead of the confederacy.

The return of the land, the former site of a correctional facility, was negotiated in exchange for the earlier barricade coming down more than 10 years ago.

April 21, 2006

On Monday, demonstrators issued a statement noting they had moved the barricade to the bypass “to unify the people of Six Nations and relieve pressure on our people and the residents of Caledonia.”

They erected a barricade on the bypass to “apply pressure on Canada to return to the negotiation table,” the statement reads.

It’s not clear what led the demonstrators to dismantle their barricade altogether or whether any issues were ironed out.

Protesters did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. (Source: Hamilton Spectator) 

 

Posted in: Hamilton, Ontario Tagged: blockade, Caledonia, counselling, dispute, Hamilton, highway 6, indigenous, resolution, settlement, Six Nations

November 18, 2009

November 18, 2009 by Graeme MacKay

L E T T E R to the E D I T O R

This cartoon depicted a duo of camouflaged men raiding the fridge of what appears to be an elderly woman. The caption read: “Environmental Monitors’ Getting Brazen.” The cartoon was obviously an attempt by the cartoonist and others to make a derogatory remark aimed at the people of the Six Nations of the Grand River who have a valid treaty with the Crown to hunt and harvest wild game throughout a large portion of southern Ontario.

A story appeared recently in several area newspapers after some hunters alleged to be Iroquois from Six Nations were noticed hunting in the Iroquois Heights Conservation Area in Ancaster. One of the camouflaged men in the cartoon is telling the woman he has legitimate claim to her food (deer living in the fridge?) due to the wording of the Albany Treaty of 1701 between the British government in North America and the Five Nations of Iroquois who resided then and now in the lower Great Lakes region. In the agreement negotiated between the Five Nations and the British Crown, the Iroquois deeded to the Crown a certain area of land around the lower Great Lakes while maintaining the right to hunt, fish and harvest wild life in the area laid out in the treaty. The Iroquois Heights Conservation Area is located within the boundaries of the treaty; therefore, the hunters in question were within their rights to be harvesting wild life in the area. In hindsight, the cartoonist should have carried out some historical research on the treaties which Canada has with the Iroquois before he or she decided to depict the Iroquois hunters as irresponsible law breakers.

D. Whitlow, Ohsweken

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Actually the cartoon was aimed at the two guys who were hunting for deer on park land used by the public. Two guys who felt they could go unannounced, shooting bows and arrows and do what ever they want using the terms of a treaty signed in 1701. To me it doesn’t matter what race they’re part of because every race has its numskulls. -Graeme MacKay

Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: Aboriginals, Feedback, First Nations, hunting, Iroquois Heights, natives, Six Nations

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