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Article: Indians Gather as Siege Intensifies;Armed Confrontation in Canada Reflects Growing Militancy
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- The Washington Post
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- July 19, 1990
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Indian tribal chiefs from across Canada slipped through police
patrols into this besieged reservation near Montreal today to hold an
emergency meeting aimed at breaking a week-long armed standoff with
authorities that began over land claims at a nearby golf course.
The confrontations here, along with sympathy protests in Ottawa,
the capital, and in British Columbia and Manitoba, reflect a growing
militancy among Canada's 700,000 indigenous Indians and Eskimos over
what they say is the government's refusal to address longstanding
aboriginal grievances.
Canadian army units bivouacked nearby on alert for possible
intervention in the confrontations, which have claimed the life of a
Quebec ...