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Article: Genocide and development: Canada's role in the destruction of the Lubicon.(interview with Ward Churchill)(Interview)
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- Canadian Dimension
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- March 1, 1998
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An Interview with Ward Churchill
Editors' Note: The Lubicon Cree Nation in Northern Alberta has not signed treaty and retains full Aboriginal rights as guaranteed by the Constitution, They lived essentially undisturbed until 1979, when the Government of Alberta opened the traditional homeland to oil and gas exploration. Industrial development has since devastated the Lubicon People. In 1989, Daishowa, a large multinational corporation, obtained timber rights from Alberta to cut in Lubicon lands and subsequently met with the Lubicon and agreed not to cut until land claims had been settled. Daishowa then breached that agreement and, through a subsidiary, began ...