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From: elag <elag@cloud9.net>
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Subject: Re: Elag...concrete art
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 23:51:12 -0400
Organization: Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose
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Parry wrote:
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> elag <elag@cloud9.net> wrote in message news:<3F557E98.3C6D0E51@cloud9.net>...
> [snip]
> > > > Hmmm... I thought that the Canadian Gov'ts dealings w/ the Natives were
> > > > a lot more even handed. Is there an interesting story behind the reference?
> > >
> > > Actually, I conflated two stories. There was the so-called "Oka
> > > Crisis" in 1990 in Quebec in which Mohawks barricaded highways to
> > > prevent a golf course expansion into burial ground land. The
> > > provincial police launched a violent assault on the barricades in
> > > which a cop got killed; afterwards federal troops replaced the
> > > provincials and a deal was brokered. The other incident was in
> > > Ontario, in 1995 I think, when Stoney Point First Nations natives held
> > > a peaceful occupation of Ipperwash Provincial Park, again over a
> > > burial ground issue, and again a violent assault by provincial police,
> > > this one killing native Dudley George.
> >
> > Thanks for the info... am I the only one thinking "Dudley Doright"?
>
> No, Dudley was RCMP, federal. The provincial cops aren't drawn as well as Dudley.
Jussa nother one of my miniscule jokes... "why didn't Dudley do right?..."
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