[news] Members of Mishkeegogamang First Nation and Ojibway Nation of Saugeen Defend Traplines

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As of April 6, Grandmothers and Mothers of Mishkeegogamang First Nation and Ojibway Nation of Saugeen have erected a blockade, which will serve as a gathering place, to prevent the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR), Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (OMNDM), and Bowater Corporation, from continuing the development known as the St. Raphael Signature Site. The proposed development threatens their Traditional Territory, and the right of future generations to continue to live as traditional peoples. The decision to actively resist the St. Raphael Signature Site, a manifestation of the ongoing process of colonization, was made after the MNR refused to stop Bowater from cutting traplines belonging to local trappers, thus violating Treaty 9, signed Nation to Nation.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/8/20280/61047