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Article: First Nation, ministry face off over logging.(news)
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- Wind Speaker
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- November 1, 2008
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.
Most people wouldn't take such a positive view having been charged with a number of offences, including property damage and illegal harvesting of timber, but Chief Dean Sayers isn't most people.
He sees the charges he's now facing as historic, and an opportunity for his community, the Batchewana First Nation, to deal with concerns over provincial harvesting practices and seek clarity of their treaty relationship with the Crown.
A year ago, members of the Batchewana First Nation decided enough was enough. Damage to the forests of their territory, an area that stretches along the shores of Lake Superior west from Sault Ste. ...