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Ontario turns over Ipperwash park to First Nation

Ontario turned over Ipperwash Provincial Park to a First Nation on Thursday, settling a long-standing aboriginal grievance in the province.

"We are returning Ipperwash Provincial Park lands to the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation," said Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant during a news conference Thursday in Toronto.

"In doing so, we are sending a clear signal that the McGuinty government is acting on the premier's ambitious agenda on aboriginal affairs."

Ipperwash Provincial Park has been closed since 1995 when Ontario Provincial Police officers shot and killed aboriginal activist Dudley George during an aboriginal occupation of the park.

Members of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation argued that land for the park and a nearby military base were illegally taken away from them in violation of their aboriginal rights. They claim the park contains an aboriginal burial ground.

Dudley George's brother, Sam, and the inquiry that looked into George's shooting had recommended the park be returned to the band.


The origins of the dispute date back to the Second World War. Ottawa expropriated land belonging to the Stony Point band in 1942 under the War Measures Act in order to build a military training facility called Camp Ipperwash.

The military camp is next to Ipperwash Provincial Park, which had been created by the province six years earlier.

The Department of National Defence offered to return most of the land after the war if it could lease the land necessary for the military base, but later withdrew the offer. In 1972, Jean Chrétien — who was then the minister of Indian Affairs — suggested that if the land wasn't returned, the band should be offered another piece of land as compensation.

The dispute continued unresolved until 1995, when a group of about 30 protesters set up barricades at the park to draw attention to their land claim on a military base.

Dudley George was shot and killed by an Ontario Provincial Police sniper in September 1995 as police moved in to clear out the park.

Justice Sidney Linden ruled in May 2007 that the OPP, the government of former Ontario premier Mike Harris and the federal government all bore responsibility for events that led to George's death

The original land claim — the reason protesters occupied Ipperwash Park in the first place — was settled in 1998. Under the $26-million agreement, the land occupied by the former military installation was to be cleaned up and returned to the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation. As well, every member of the band was to receive between $150,000 and $400,000 in compensation.


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Added: Dec-20-2007 
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  • We shouldn't even fuking be here

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    borny (43.90)

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  • Now can we put up a huge fence?

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    steveaustin1971 (377.82)

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  • Europeans came over here ad pulled these people out of the Stone Age.
    The natives had no word for I own, or we own, and no concept of land or prperty ownership.
    Now they say we stole their land, how can that be when they never owned it to begin with.
    One more thing.
    There is not a single native living today that has any of the fist migrants genes in them.
    The first Americans are extinct, and everyone else including the natives are immigrants.
    There are no First Nations, they're gone.

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    Dave56 (216.50)  

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  • Dave56: "Europeans came over here ad pulled these people out of the Stone Age.
    The natives had no word for I own, or we own, and no concept of land or prperty ownership.
    Now they say we stole their land, how can that be when they never owned it to begin with.
    One more thing.
    There is not a single native living today that has any of the fist migrants genes in them.
    The first Americans are extinct, and everyone else including the natives are immigrants.
    There are no First Nations, they're gone."
    y More..

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    gary123456 (14.56)

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  • gary123456: "
    Dave56: "Europeans came over here ad pulled these people out of the Stone Age.
    The natives had no word for I own, or we own, and no concept of land or prperty ownership.
    Now they say we stole their land, how can that be when they never owned it to begin with.
    One more thing.
    There is not a single native living today that has any of the fist migrants genes in them.
    The first Americans are extinct, and everyone else including the natives are immigrants.
    There are no First Nations, they're gone."
    y More..
    You must be a real pussy.
    I have kicked many drunk Indians asses in my younger years.
    I never lost a fight to a single one,I did catch staph off one of them though, he should have brushed his tooth I guess.

    I firmly believe that all races should be treated equally which is not the case with Natives up here.
    They get coddled from cradle to grave, the court judges are instructed to use leniency in Native cases, another racist policy.
    Everything, medical dental welfare is paid for by my tax dollars and most of the money is pi$$ed away by corrupt band leaders before the poor tribe members see a cent of it.
    It's called "The Indian Industry" and is another example of Liberal racsism, ie putting one race above everyone else.
    Hence the term, "First Nations".

    I have many good Native friends and I tell them the same thing.
    The first people and their descendants are long gone.
    And if we're talking compensation, where's mine for pulling Native people out of the "Stone Age"?

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    Dave56 (216.50)  

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  • Confused Canada.................and getting worse..

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    duckbill (97.04)

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  • In a land of equality and freedom, indians think they deserve more cause of something that didnt even happen to them but to their ancestors. They already pay no taxes and get free money and they still cry for more, drives me nuts hearing about indians. They even abuse the special privileges they have by smuggling weapons and drugs across the border. Most indians I see are overweight alcoholics driving hummers.

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    spike4200 (748.28)  

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  • aahhh racism debates - they never get old

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    unda_dawg (37.46)

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  • Dave56: "
    gary123456: "
    Dave56: "Europeans came over here ad pulled these people out of the Stone Age.
    The natives had no word for I own, or we own, and no concept of land or prperty ownership.
    Now they say we stole their land, how can that be when they never owned it to begin with.
    One more thing.
    There is not a single native living today that has any of the fist migrants genes in them.
    The first Americans are extinct, and everyone else including the natives are immigrants.
    There are no First Nations, they're gone."
    y More..
    You must be a real pussy.
    I have kicked many drunk Indians asses in my younger years.
    I never lost a fight to a single one,I did catch staph off one of them though, he should have brushed his tooth I guess.

    I firmly believe that all races should be treated equally which is not the case with Natives up here.
    They get coddled from cradle to grave, the court judges are instructed to use leniency in Native cases, another racist policy.
    Everything, medical dental welfare is paid for by my tax dollars and most of the money is pi$$ed away by corrupt band leaders before the poor tribe members see a cent of it.
    It's called "The Indian Industry" and is another example of Liberal racsism, ie putting one race above everyone else.
    Hence the term, "First Nations".

    I have many good Native friends and I tell them the same thing.
    The first people and their descendants are long gone.
    And if we're talking compensation, where's mine for pulling Native people out of the "Stone Age"?"
    Your fuckin tough talkin on the computer, shows real balls the way you flex your shit while you sit there on your fat fuckin canadian ass. Your prolly lost every single one of those so called fights you were in, your probobly a one hitter quitter. As for the staph, you got it from you dirty red neck sister, you dont have to lie to kick it.

    How do you know natives dont have words for own, we own or a concept of ownership, that is stupid, you know how many native languages and cultures their are and dialects estimated around 500 . Do you speak any of them?

    This so called leniency you say exists doesnt, if it did how would you explain that statics in canada say your likley to be detained, bail revoked if your not of cacasian decent (looke at them statistics canada website). And that cacasians receive 2/3's lower sentence times than that of colors (need i mention pop stats of correctional facilities, if you got cash you get out thats how it works). White land claims last 1-2 years, on average a native landclaim lasts 10-25 . Leniency please.

    And for you claim that dental, medical, welfare is paid by tax dollars is somewhat true, dental is not. Welfare is pooled from provincial tax dollars and is accessed only though urban based intitatives available to everyone not just natives. Not everything is covered medically either we cant just go get shit done, only the basis, inhalers, painkillers, insulin, hospital. No special treatments, or new medicines.

    You sit on massive amounts of land, you have given the natives modern day beads and blankets (mere pennys and scraps of land), with landclaim payouts, and land entitlements which where not rightfully yours in the first place. Equality you know the definition but do you know how to practice.

    As for the "stone aged" science is now discovering some of this so called savages where more advanced in astronomy, botony, engineering, human rights and natural medicine and if they continued at the rate of advancement they where going at they would be among the most efficient societies today. We lived in harmony with the land and each other, (some fights over land!) for thousands of years and you fucked it one less then 100.

    What gives you the right to say "your ancestors are gone" to some one, fuck how bout yours are too, what are you that gives you the right to tell some one who they are, how what would you think if some smaktard tried to tell you didnt come from where you came from and that your decendants did what they did and that doesnt in now way effect you now. Thats the dumbest thing i have ever heard and ive heard 6 graders with more thoughtful opinions on the situation.

    Natives have the right to bring whatever we want to out lands and govern our own lands and reserves when we want to in the manner we choose, its our right to self governance and when we do, we will have aboriginal operated and owned armies to protect our legally soverign countrys. Keep talkin shit cause one day you might be paying your land taxes to your friendly local reserve, after all we have 200 landclaims pending, all legitimate totaling most all canadas land mass. Hey its your courts, your law, your judges, our land how fair is that and were still winning our land back.

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    nechione (111.38)  
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    • Can you say taxes?
      Better learn it because your free ride will end soon.
      Of course Indians will get out of paying taxes by doing what they've been doing for a living for over a century.
      Nothing.

      Posted Jul-9-2008 By 
      Dave56 (216.50)  

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    • And what have you done besides waste a 1 persons lifetimes worth of oxygen precious canadian air at that. Not to mention the waste of good carbon that could have been used to produce someone with something educated to say about the issue.

      Posted Jul-10-2008 By 
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    • The only free ride has been white immigrants and there future generations using native lands and resources, obtained from unethical circumstances and business practices, to build Canada and United States into the crashing economies they are.

      Get it though you thick cracked skull, everything pulled out of this countrys soil, every home built and every product made from once indigenous resources, was made possible cause natives made way for white society, so your capitalist ancestors could hav More..

      Posted Jul-10-2008 By 
      nechione (111.38)  
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  • spike4200: "In a land of equality and freedom, indians think they deserve more cause of something that didnt even happen to them but to their ancestors. They already pay no taxes and get free money and they still cry for more, drives me nuts hearing about indians. They even abuse the special privileges they have by smuggling weapons and drugs across the border. Most indians I see are overweight alcoholics driving hummers."
    Most indians i see are overweight alcoholics driving hummers, More..

    Posted Dec-20-2007 By 
    nechione (111.38)  
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  • The crackheads will build a commune there

    Posted Dec-21-2007 By 
    bongabonga99 (119.84)  
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  • A good start...

    Posted Jul-21-2009 By 
    pokoAAA (29.22)

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