In January 2003 a 14-month long international campaign for the Lubicon Cree was launched to try to persuade Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to fulfil his 1993 promise to settle the Alberta First Nation’s land claim. A campaign calendar has been produced highlighting 14 big events in the history of the Lubicon’s land rights struggle: one for each month remaining until the next presidential elections.
Just before becoming Prime Minister, Chrétien wrote that ‘the government has reneged on its fiduciary responsibility to the Lubicon people’ and called for ‘the swift resolution of all claims’, describing the Lubicon claim ‘a priority’. Although promised reserve land in 1939, the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation is still without land, adequate housing or running water.
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