THUNDER BAY, ON, March 17 /CNW/ – Anishinabek Nation leadership are
demonstrating their support for a Treaty 9 community whose chief was prepared
to go to jail for refusing to allow a mining company to conduct exploration
activity on traditional territory.
Deputy Grand Chief Glen Hare represented the 42 member communities of the
Anishinabek Nation at the Ontario Superior Court building today where
Judge Patrick Smith sentenced Chief Donny Morris of Kitchenuhmaykoosib
Inninuwug and six council members to six months in prison for contempt of
court. The councillors of the fly-in First Nation about 600 km north of
Thunder Bay defied an Oct. 25 court order granting Platinex Inc. access to
Big Trout Lake, which the First Nation claim as ancestral land.
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