In the end, police used pain compliance (less charitably known as torture) and tear gas against the children, elders and people of Barriere Lake at a peaceful blockade of Highway 117 in northern Quebec.
Their demands? That the government honour the Trilateral Agreement on resource co-management it signed with the community, and stop interfering in their traditional government as a way of getting out of the agreement.
Questions:
Are we ready to discuss colonialism in the context of an election?
If this happened to anyone else, would it not be national news?
— Dru Oja Jay
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REMINDER ... All of us settlers ... we were all immigrants to Indigenous North America.
We live here by treaty.
The Two Row Wampum Treaty is the beginning: We agreed not to interfere in each other's internal affairs.
My Canada includes rights of Indigenous Peoples. LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT! Peace.
Two Row Wampum Treaty
"It is said that, each nation shall stay in their own vessels, and travel the river side by side. Further, it is said, that neither nation will try to steer the vessel of the other." This is a treaty among Indigenous Nations, and with Canada. This is the true nature of our relationships with Indigenous Nations of 'Kanata'.
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