Background on Stoney Point In 1942, the Canadian Department of National Defense invoked the War Measures Act to seize the land of the Potawatomi people of Stoney Point Reserve and established an “advanced infantry training center.” Many of the …
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Merge & Conquer
by Kathleen Rashid
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
A recent decision by the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) to close down its military training camp at Ipperwash in southwest Ontario, built on land confiscated from the Stoney Point Ojibwe in W.W.II, and return it to “the Kettle …
Ojibwa Take Back Canadian Army Base
by Kathleen Rashid, Mary Richards
Fifth Estate # 343, Fall-Winter, 1993
Just inland from Lake Huron along southern Ontario’s Highway 21, a complex of square white buildings stands behind walls of chain-link and barbed wire fencing, posted at regular intervals with official Department of National Defense (DND) signs proclaiming ‘DANGER. NO …
Grounds for Decolonizing
by Kathleen Rashid
Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993
A review of The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance (Ed., M. Annette Jaimes, South End Press, 1992)