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This curated list of articles and resources is updated periodically.
Arrowdale injunction hearing delayed again
“A motion to dissolve that injunction based on the province’s so-called anti-SLAPP legislation, which seeks to protect free expression by preventing suits meant to silence or punish critics. Such actions are sometimes known as strategic suits against public participation, or SLAPP, suits, or intimidation lawsuits.”
By: Susan Gamble Reporter, Brantford Expositor
Abandoned Ontario cemetery with graves of Black settlers to be restored after campaign by local advocates
“Sylvia Weaver, a local historian and author, says at least a dozen people are buried in the cemetery, which is near Canfield in Haldimand County — including Carrie Barnes, whose renowned aunt Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad in the 1800s.”
By: Michael Smee Reporter, CBC Toronto
Dufferin warden says county seeking advice in Haudenosaunee moratorium
“It’s not just a Grand Valley problem, it’s an Ontario problem,” he said. “There might have to be some larger voices than just the people here. This has gone on for a long time, and it seems like nobody wants to deal with it.”
By: Tabitha Wells of the Orangeville Banner
Will Haldimand’s seeming failure to consult with Haudenosaunee Development Institute bring project down?
During a late-October fundraising announcement, the Sachem asked Coun. Tony Dalimonte whether the county had consulted with the Haudenosaunee Development Institute on the project — given in April, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council announced a moratorium on all development within the Haldimand Tract.
By: The Sachem, Opinion
MPPs decry lack of consultation by Cambridge and province for warehouse MZO
The land falls within the Haldimand Tract, which includes 10 kilometres on either side of the Grand River. It was granted to Six Nations of the Grand River in 1784 for allying with the British in the American Revolution.
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council, the traditional government of the Six Nations, made a call earlier this year for a moratorium on development of the area.
By: Kate Bueckert, Bobby Hristova for CBC News
Moratorium on development of Haldimand Tract raises questions for Arrowdale golf course
The City of Brantford has said it will resume selling the Arrowdale golf course lands since its legal battle with an opposing group has come to a close.
But a moratorium on development in the Haldimand Tract, recently announced by The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC), raises questions for how far buyers will get.
By: Christine Rankin for CBC News
Six Nations Elected Chief Extends Support to Land Back Movement.
Video statement from APTN News Network.
Haudenosaunee Chiefs Declare Development Moratorium Across Entire Haldimand Tract.
Traditional Six Nations chiefs have declared a formal moratorium on development within the Haldimand Tract, a broad swath of land spanning 10 kms from either side of the Grand River as it winds its way from Dundalk, Ont. down to Lake Erie.
By: Brett Forester for APTN
Statement From Concerned Haudenosaunee Women Regarding Injunctions At 1492 Land Back Lane.
This statement is issued on behalf of a group of Haudenosaunee women who are opposed to the use of injunctions against our people, who are exercising our sovereignty over our land.
Standoff at 1492 Land Back Lane.
In an empty loft off Highway 6, along a stretch of country road that connects Six Nations of the Grand River with the nearby town of Caledonia, eight people banter around a midafternoon fire. This grassy field in southern Ontario, dotted with a few tents and temporary structures, is called Kanonhstaton.
By: Luke Ottenhof for The Walrus
Ipperwash tragedy still haunts Ontario in Caledonia 25 years after Dudley George killing.
Twenty-five years ago, heavily-armed Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers marched shoulder-to-shoulder in utter darkness toward Ipperwash Provincial Park, which two days earlier members of an Anishinaabe First Nation in southwestern Ontario reclaimed as part of the former Stoney Point reserve.
By: Brett Forester for APTN News
Why Haudenosaunee women are central to advocating for land rights, from Oka to Caledonia.
According to the Haudenosaunee worldview, all issues regarding land fall on the responsibility of women.
By: Ka’nhehsí:io Deer for CBC News
Neither Liberals nor Conservatives took action on report on Six Nations land conflict, says former chief.
The Justin Trudeau Liberal government, like its Conservative predecessor, has done little to act on the recommendations from a fact-finding report into a Six Nations 2006 land conflict that is playing out again today on a different property in Caledonia, Ont., according to a former elected chief of the community.
By: Jorge Barrera for CBC Indigenous
OPP spent more than $16M policing 1492 Land Back Lane: Records.
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) spent $16.3 million in just half a year policing the Haudenosaunee-led occupation of the McKenzie Meadows housing development in Caledonia, Ont., according to provincial government records obtained by APTN News through freedom of information.
By Brett Forester for APTN News
A Guide to Understanding the Land Issues in Caledonia.
“We know whose land this is,” Skyler Williams of Six Nations told officers from the Hamilton sheriff’s office who came to Caledonia on July 31 to serve a Superior Court injunction ordering land defenders off a construction site on McKenzie Road.
By: J.P. Antonacci for the Hamilton Spectator
Kwa'y^hneha - The Rabbit Dance.
Two boys set out on a hunting expedition one day, as they had many days before and as they would many days after. They were chasing small game in the lush forests that at one time were an interconnected wonder of the world, but are now sparse remnants of a vanishing eco jewel. These boys were raised alongside the riches of the forests.
By Karl Dockstader for the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre