23-013/005(03)
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Aug. 16 – Aug. 22, 1990
Part of Indian and Northern Affairs newspaper clippings collection
Folder includes the following articles:
NORTHERN ONTARIO RAILWAY BLOCKADES:
- Fresh barricades clog 2 rail routes
- CP line blocked as Ontario band takes up protest
- Indifference may fuel militance, lawyer says
- CP Rail wins injunction against blockade
- Ojibwa served with order to clear CP line
- Ojibwa lift CN rail blockade
- Ojibwa ordered to let trains pass
- Ojibwa offered top-level attention
- Ottawa tells CN to clear tracks
- Trains focus of protests
- Bleak life on remote reserve triggers Indians' demands
- Key rail lines to be blocked indefinitely
- Blockades force Via to cancel trains
- Blockades set up in Ontario
- Indians blocking rail lines
- Blockade disrupts VIA trains
OKA DISPUTE: - Mohawks demand amnesty for bingo
- Talks resume in Mohawk standoff
- Time seen running out in Oka talks
- Army gives in to Mohawk protest
- Army in place at Mohawk barricades
- Mohawks balk at talks after troops move up
- Riot-weary police welcome army relief
- Oka Mohawks demand new talks, say Warriors not representative
- Troops moving in to face Mohawks early tomorrow
- The Oka standoff (Warriors see selves as freedom fighters)
- Troops to replace police in standoff
- Federal official is 'optimistic' as talks adjourn
- Natives and the politics of tobacco
- Bickering over process bogs down Oka talks
- Indians doubt Siddon's promise
- Bourassa considering new move
- Talks to continue in Montreal today
- Couple to hold wedding reception circled by troops
- Some Quebeckers angered by deal
- Chateauguay enjoys first quiet night since Sunday
- Military might leaves tiny St. Benoit agog
- Newlyweds will hold reception amid army base
- Violence urged if Mohawks attacked
- Bridge may be mined minister says
- Standoff may delay start of school year
- Would-be escaper bound for reserve
- Alleged French slur at blockade derided
- Oka cops try new tack
- Quebec Mohawks resume talks
- Army moves toward Oka
- Talks await 24 observers taking posts at barricades
- Riot erupts as troops approach
- Journalists' groups condemn police attacks on cameramen
- Nobel peace prize laureate sees reason in Oka militance
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU'S VISIT: - Tutu to take up native problems with Mulroney
- Tutu urges 'justice, fair play' for Canadian native people
-PROTESTS, LAND CLAIMS AND SELF GOVERNMENT: - B.C. vows to call on RCMP
- UOI harvesting strategy
- Native cases called landmark decisions
- First Nations get help
- Chiefs support new warriors society
EDUCATION: - NTCP: a new generation of teachers
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUSINESS: - Quebec natives' new weapon is Education
- Temagami faces 'disastrous' days
- Beyond Bingo
- Natives threaten court action over GST
- Toxic tire-fire runoff being stored in lagoons
- Indian Affairs seeks additional $2-billion
POLITICS - Partisan Manitoba natives join Harper on election trail
- Chiefs split over offer to meet with Filmon
- Canada cannot tolerate violence as a political tool
CRIMES COMMITTED ON NATIVES - Raped on reserve, woman awarded $75,000 damages
- Police probe set into death of native
EDITORIALS, COMMENTARY, LETTERS: - Time to reopen Mercier bridge
- Where is the Prime Minister of Canada?
- Tutu and Indians
- Oka and Indians
- A bridge too far
- World Woes overshadow Mulroney's failings
- How will the civil authorities deal with the
- Mohawk Warriors' weapons?
- What Sartre had to say about Oka
- When bad faith sabotages a system
- PM's post-Meech words hollow
- It cannot be business as usual when the barricades come down
- National Affairs
- Natives accuse army of spying by night
- Divide-and-conquer tactics won't work anymore
- Our leaders go missing just when needed
- The demands by native leaders for full sovereignty cannot be met
- No salutes necessary!
- Home and natives' land ... ?
- After Oka, no more illusions about natives
- Bourassa's hesitation over Oka puts him in nightmarish dilemma
- See how Bourassa handles distinct society in Oka
- Mulroney's promise far from fulfilment
- Flawless irony
- Creative ideas
- Mulroney thinks American on most foreign policy issues
- Cultural regeneration vital as winning rights to natives
- Police protection
- Mulroney should show some gumption at Oka
- Tutu's suggestions not appreciated here
- Bureaucrats too, please
- Mohawks anticipate retaliation by Quebec
- Wick's outcasts
- Media reporters at Oka lacking in enterprise
- Native housing
- Natives silenced
- Political cartoons
ARTS, CULTURE: - Culture Comes To Kwawinga (Fiction)
- Innu rockers sidestep politics for pure pop sound
UP COMING EVENTS: - Conference on Adolescent Treatment
- Join the Circle Campaign
- Mob attacks Mohawks
- Mohawk chief says agreement near
- PM warns of bloodshed if Mohawks resist army (Mulroney aims to stop crimes of "extremists")
- Protest vigil held at Indian Affairs office
- Families flee reserve under "rain of rocks"
- Indians say sabotage may follow army move
- Protest blocks traffic at Tory office in Metro
- Frightened residents are preparing for the worst
- What the Mohawks are after
- Mohawks ask "for peace" at Kanesatake
- Mohawk Warriors say they'll fight back
- Women, kids "afraid of war" flee reserve
- Mohawk standoff steeped in history
- Sending army against barricades a "declaration of war," chief says
- "Our spirits are strong" say defiant Mohawks
- Army sent to remove Mohawk barricades
- Stop "insanity," Mohawks urge Canadian public
- Government resolve: to stay in power
- Anti-Mohawk mobs barring food, observers say
- Mohawks prepared to open lane on Mercier Bridge (Mohawk move aimed at encouraging talks
- Ottawa's patience wearing thin, PM says
- Lumberman willing to negotiate with Indians
- Mohawks offer olive branch
- "Special show" by PM boosts Quebec MPs
- Indian and Northern Affairs-- Media update
- Warriors represent only themselves, say Six Nations Chiefs
- Soldier of Fortune editor says Warrior attack could be costly
- All are Warriors
- Supplies depleted
- Lodged complaint
- Pessimism about chances for progress in Negotiations
- Native Blockades darken our image abroad
- Mohawk talks stall on guns, amnesty
- Assault would be folly, Erasmus says
- Oka talks vigorous but tense
- End blockade, bishops tell Mohawks
- 3 Kanesatake Mohawks in court, more arrests planned over gun battle
- South Shore residents block natives
- Army provocation could start a "bloodbath", chief warns
- Key talks pending in "tense" Mohawk" standoff
- Warrior official Thompson charged with possessing cigarettes
- Cannot tolerate anarchy, Justice Minister declares
- Soldiers advance, halt talks at Oka
- Talks break down as tension increases at Oka
- Warriors' smuggling, gambling key to Oka dispute, chief says
- Mohawks, soldiers in face-to-face standoff
- Campbell rejects amnesty for Mohawks who break law
- 44% believe natives are treated badly
- Mohawks tricked Quebec, minister says (Talks at Oka "arduous")
- Time almost up for Oka talks, Bourassa says
- Mohawks table demands in talks to end standoffs
- Indian war veterans shoved by Quebec police atblockade
- Food relief organizers -plead for support
- Police pullout removes major irritant(Talks to resume after breather)
- Church condemns "racism"
- Army to relieve police at Quebec's standoffs
FOR COMMENTARY, EDITORIALS, LETTERS AND POLITICAL CARTOONS
REGARDING THE OKA DISPUTE SEE EDITION 90-33.2.