[IPSM] Aboriginals erect barricades in Deseronto dispute

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Aboriginals erect barricades in Deseronto dispute

Canadian Press

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20070110/deseronto_blockade_070110/20070110?hub=TorontoHome

DESERONTO, Ont. — About 30 members of an eastern Ontario aboriginal
community have erected barricades outside a construction-related business
in the town of Deseronto.

Shawn Brant, spokesman for the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, says the
protest is being held outside a quarry operated by Thurlow Aggregates, at
Desoronto Road and Highway 2.

He says the company was targeted because it would be assisting in the
development of a condominium development on disputed land called the
Culbertson Land Tract.

Brant says the protest was forced by Kingston developer Tim Leith when he
set today as a deadline for progress to be made in the ongoing land
dispute.

Brant says a number of police officers are watching the peaceful protest.

The federal government earlier appointed land claims negotiator Sean
Kennedy to try to resolve the dispute, which is eerily similar to one at
the heart of an ongoing aboriginal occupation in Caledonia, Ont., south of
Hamilton.

The Indian Claims Commission website says the Mohawks' claim centres on
the illegal disposition of some 827 acres of land in 1836 and 1837. The
tract consists of land within the original Mohawk Tract granted to and
reserved for the Six Nations in 1793.

The basis of the Mohawk claim is that no part of the Culbertson Tract was
ever given up. The claim was submitted in 1995 and accepted for
negotiation in 2003.


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