[news] Caledonia's Fifth Column: White Anti-Racism and Solidarity with Six Nations

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by Tom Keefer | from briarpatchmagazine.com | August 2006

On February 28, 2006, members of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy reclaimed a suburban construction site on lands belonging to them and initiated one of the most significant anti-colonial struggles in North America in recent years. With the people of Six Nations fighting to regain ownership of the 950,000 acres of the Haldimand tract originally granted to them by the British crown in 1784, the outcome of the struggle at Douglas Creek Estates has major implications for white settlers, the Canadian state, the Iroquois Confederacy, and indigenous peoples throughout North America.

White residents from the nearby town of Caledonia have regularly protested the indigenous blockades, and on numerous occasions have attempted to break past police lines in order to take back the disputed land. But many other whites, supportive of the reclamation, have also been active in and around Six Nations and Caledonia.

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