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Album: A Truck Gets Turned Around
February 6, 2003 Members of Asubpeeschoseewagong assert their Aboriginal and treaty rights by stopping four trucks at a roving blockade. After 15 hours, the logging trucks turn around and go home. Last change: 07/22/05
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Album: Asubpeeschoseewagong: Roving Blockades
In addition to the continuous blockade camp maintained at Slant Lake since December 3, 2002 Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows) band members sometimes show up unannounced on other bush roads, blocking logging equipment with their vehicles, campfires and bodies. These 'roving blockades' usually last a few days and disrupt timber operations with their unpredictability. Last change: 07/22/05
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Album: Asubpeeschoseewagong -- Sagitawong Trapline CPTer Matt Schaaf documented violations of provincial forestry regulations on the trapline of Grassy Narrows band member Andrew Keewatin. Keewatin's Treaty rights to trap are curtailed by logging operations. A lawsuit has been in progress for three years to determine if the clear-cutting is legal under Canadian law. In the meantime, you can see what is happening in this album... Last change: 07/22/05
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Album: March 11, 2004 Abitibi in Court Abitibi breaks more than laws: clear-cutting breaks the Anishnaabe traditional way of a life -- an economy built on trapping and hunting. United Nations covenants guarantee that a people's subsistence will not be denied them. Clear-cutting violates international Treaty #3. Last change: 07/22/05
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