About: Grand River land dispute

An Entity of Type: GroupAction101080366, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Grand River land dispute, also known as the Caledonia land dispute, is an ongoing dispute between the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Government of Canada. It is focussed on lands along the length of the Grand River in Ontario known as the Haldimand Tract, an 385,000 hectares (950,000 acres) tract that was granted to Indigenous allies of the British Crown in 1784 to make up for territorial losses suffered as a result of the American Revolutionary War and the Treaty of Paris (1783). The Six Nations were granted the land in perpetuity and allege that lands were improperly sold, leased or given away by various Canadian governments, leaving only 5 per cent of the original lands under Six Nations control. The Six Nations also allege that monies owed to the Six Nations from leases and

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Die Caledonia-Landbesetzung oder der Caledonia land dispute ist eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen Irokesen auf der einen Seite sowie Rohstoffunternehmen und der Regierung von Ontario auf der anderen Seite, die 2006 begonnen hat. Dabei berufen sich die Indianer auf eine Schenkung von 1784, mit der die britische Regierung ihren Verbündeten im Krieg gegen die USA eine neue Heimat gegeben hatte. Die Landbesetzung rückte erst ins öffentliche Bewusstsein Kanadas, als Angehörige der am 28. Februar 2006 20 km südwestlich von Hamilton im Anschluss an eine Demonstration ein Landstück besetzten. Dieses Land im Haldimand County umfasste rund 40 ha und sollte von Henco Industries Ltd. als Baugrundstück erschlossen werden. Dieser Haldimand Tract war jedoch den besetzenden Stämmen 1784 von der britischen Krone als Siedlungsgebiet zugesagt worden. Das Unternehmen war hingegen der Annahme, diese hätten das Gebiet 1841 aufgegeben, so dass die Krone berechtigt war, das Land zu verkaufen. (de)
  • The Grand River land dispute, also known as the Caledonia land dispute, is an ongoing dispute between the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Government of Canada. It is focussed on lands along the length of the Grand River in Ontario known as the Haldimand Tract, an 385,000 hectares (950,000 acres) tract that was granted to Indigenous allies of the British Crown in 1784 to make up for territorial losses suffered as a result of the American Revolutionary War and the Treaty of Paris (1783). The Six Nations were granted the land in perpetuity and allege that lands were improperly sold, leased or given away by various Canadian governments, leaving only 5 per cent of the original lands under Six Nations control. The Six Nations also allege that monies owed to the Six Nations from leases and loans on much of the tract have not been paid or were redirected into government coffers. The dispute has been the subject of many formal negotiations under the land claims process since the 1970s and several instances of direct action in the form of protests, blockades, and occupations. Formal negotiations have broken down, and the dispute is before the courts. The Government of Canada's policy to extinguish aboriginal title as a condition of settlement is considered unacceptable by the Six Nations. The Six Nations are seeking monies owing and ongoing payments for leased lands and the return of lands improperly transferred. The dispute came to wide attention in Canada in 2006 when the Six Nations formally reactivated litigation initially brought in 1995 against Canada and Ontario. Protesters from the Six Nations of the Grand River demonstrated on a parcel of land in Caledonia, a community within the municipality of Haldimand County, roughly 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of Hamilton. Soon after this demonstration, the demonstrators took control of the disputed land, the planned site of a subdivision known as "Douglas Creek Estates". The land, along with all of Caledonia, is part of the "Haldimand Tract". The Government of Ontario compensated the developer and stopped the development, holding the land for planned negotiations. In February and March 2020, the dispute once again entered public consciousness with Mohawk protesters blockading Highway 6 as part of the 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests in solidarity with the Wetʼsuwetʼen, and later with the occupation of the site of another planned subdivision in Caledonia, "McKenzie Meadows". The protestors have called the area "1492 Land Back Lane". Calling themselves "land defenders", the protestors have refused to leave despite being ordered to by an Ontario court. (en)
  • Le conflit territorial de Caledonia est une crise politique qui oppose la Réserve des Six Nations et l'État ontarien depuis le 28 février 2006 au Canada. Elle a lieu à , dans le comté d'Haldimand, près de Hamilton. (fr)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 4834539 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 109121 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1124620571 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:arrests
  • 37 (xsd:integer)
  • Several (en)
dbp:caption
  • An occupied house on the Douglas Creek Estates (en)
dbp:causes
  • Development of Douglas Creek Estates subdivision near Caledonia, Ontario and Six Nations of the Grand River (en)
  • Development of McKenzie Meadows subdivision near Caledonia, Ontario and Six Nations of the Grand River (en)
dbp:charged
  • 52 (xsd:integer)
dbp:date
  • 0001-02-28 (xsd:gMonthDay)
  • 0001-07-19 (xsd:gMonthDay)
dbp:injuries
  • Several, notably Sam Gualtieri (en)
dbp:leadfigures
dbp:partof
dbp:place
  • Canada (en)
dbp:result
  • Blockades removed, development halted and land bought by Ontario, protesters allowed to stay, class action lawsuits filed by Caledonia citizens against OPP and provincial government (en)
dbp:side
  • Government and police (en)
  • Canadian government and police (en)
  • Counter-protestors (en)
  • Indigenous protesters and allies (en)
  • Land defenders (en)
dbp:status
  • 0001-07-02 (xsd:gMonthDay)
dbp:text
  • You know, you just can't go in and just take over people's future homes, it's wrong. And then, when the police come, this is where the people at home are really gonna-- they get an outhouse, toss it over from a bridge onto a police car, then they start throwing rocks at the police car! Like, enough is enough. I'm just losing my patience. I can't direct the police, and I won't direct the police, but people have to obey the rules. I don't care where you come from, you know, what your race, creed, colour, whatever, we have one country, one rule, and that is it! Simple: respect each other. Cause I have a tremendous amount of respect for the Indigenous community, and there's just a few-- couple dozen. Uncalled for. Unacceptable. (en)
  • As a society, we cannot be held hostage to violence and threats of violence. There are very legitimate grievances and claims of Indigenous people in Canada. As a society and as a court, we must take into account the many years of systemic abuse inflicted upon Indigenous people, and we try to do so. However, it is never proper or acceptable to achieve your goals, regardless of how heartfelt they are, in open defiance of the law and open and flagrant disregard for the rights and property of others. (en)
dbp:title
  • 1492 (xsd:integer)
  • Douglas Creek Estates occupation (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Le conflit territorial de Caledonia est une crise politique qui oppose la Réserve des Six Nations et l'État ontarien depuis le 28 février 2006 au Canada. Elle a lieu à , dans le comté d'Haldimand, près de Hamilton. (fr)
  • The Grand River land dispute, also known as the Caledonia land dispute, is an ongoing dispute between the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Government of Canada. It is focussed on lands along the length of the Grand River in Ontario known as the Haldimand Tract, an 385,000 hectares (950,000 acres) tract that was granted to Indigenous allies of the British Crown in 1784 to make up for territorial losses suffered as a result of the American Revolutionary War and the Treaty of Paris (1783). The Six Nations were granted the land in perpetuity and allege that lands were improperly sold, leased or given away by various Canadian governments, leaving only 5 per cent of the original lands under Six Nations control. The Six Nations also allege that monies owed to the Six Nations from leases and (en)
  • Die Caledonia-Landbesetzung oder der Caledonia land dispute ist eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen Irokesen auf der einen Seite sowie Rohstoffunternehmen und der Regierung von Ontario auf der anderen Seite, die 2006 begonnen hat. Dabei berufen sich die Indianer auf eine Schenkung von 1784, mit der die britische Regierung ihren Verbündeten im Krieg gegen die USA eine neue Heimat gegeben hatte. (de)
rdfs:label
  • Caledonia-Landbesetzung (de)
  • Conflit territorial de Caledonia (fr)
  • Grand River land dispute (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is rdfs:seeAlso of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License