Indigenous territory

8 Minutes

Indigenous peoples

Indigenous resistance and “law and order” – the struggle at 1492 Land Back Lane

PV September 21, 2020

By Karl Dockstader On July 19 in the evening, land defenders moved onto unceded Haudenosaunee lands that were close to being heavily developed. Free, prior and informed consent to develop these lands was not attained....

2 Minutes

Canada Indigenous peoples

East coast Indigenous nation asserts right to harvest wood

PV April 9, 2020

The second-largest Indigenous nation in New Brunswick is suing the provincial government for depriving it of a treaty right to harvest timber. The Wolastoqey Nation, which occupies the watershed of the Wolastoq (Saint John)...

7 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment Indigenous peoples

First Nations back in court to fight TMX, defend land

PV January 9, 2020

(PV Staff, with files from Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust) Representatives of Indigenous communities fighting the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project (TMX) in the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) gathered on December 16, the...

8 Minutes

Canada Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples want their #LandBack

PV January 9, 2020

On December 31, the BC Supreme Court ruled in favour of Coastal GasLink (CGL), which has never obtained consent from the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs to work on un-surrendered traditional Indigenous territories in the north-central...