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Thursday October 13, 2011


Repeating the past: KI in mining battle on traditional land

Wawatay - Shawn Bell

Thursday October 13, 2011 

 

The fight over mineral exploration on traditional Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) lands is threatening to erupt into direct action. God’s Lake Resources said it will ignore an eviction notice issued by KI, but community leaders promise not to back down.

The junior mining exploration company was issued the eviction notice Sept. 29 after hunters from KI discovered an exploration camp on the north shore of Sherman Lake.


Matawa Chiefs Support Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug [KI] First Nation in its Struggle to Protect Traditional Homelands and to Assert the People’s Inherent and Treaty Rights.

Thunder Bay, October 11, 2011 – Matawa First Nations Chiefs are joining the growing number of voices calling on Premier McGuinty to honour the promise made to KI to establish a joint panel to resolve long-standing issues related to mineral exploration on their homelands. In 2009, just before the KI Chief and Council were jailed for opposing Platinex, the McGuinty Government promised to create a joint panel to resolve mining and mineral exploration issues with KI.


KI Call On Minister to Honour Government Promise and Create Joint Panel to Resolve Dispute.

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug

Big Trout Lake, Ontario: Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug [KI] is calling on Ontario to honour a promise made by the McGuinty government in 2008 and create a joint panel to resolve longstanding issues regarding mining exploration on their homelands.

 


KI calls on McGuinty to stop mining activity on sacred burial sites

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug

Ontario's inaction violates freedom of religion; threatens to spark new conflict


Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug says no to De Beers mine

Rick Garrick — Wawatay News

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug has decided not to allow De Beers to conduct mineral exploration on its traditional lands.

KI Chief Donny Morris and council said in a Dec. 6 letter to De Beers that they “have to make it clear that we will not and cannot consent to any mineral exploration in our traditional territory at this stage.” The letter was copied to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the United Nations.


KI permanently prevents platinum mine from developing on its lands

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug

Big Trout Lake, Ontario -- December 14, 2009. 


Natives, mining firm dig in their heels in 11-year long dispute

Patrick White, Globe and Mail

Remote reserve squares off against Toronto-based Platinex over land claims north of Thunder Bay
 
Winnipeg— In purely physical terms, it was a duel between a Beaver floatplane and a small aluminum skiff.
 
But the symbolic heft of the brief standoff on Nemeigusabins Lake last Wednesday was far greater.
 
In the boat sat a lone man, Donny Morris, chief of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation, a fly-in community 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay that has vowed to stop a mining company drilling f

Native protesters prevent mining firm from landing plane near claim

The Canadian Press

August 26, 2009
THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation (KI) band members prevented a floatplane carrying Platinex Inc.