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6th- Section 12 of the Indian Act is repealed as a result of the Lavell case at the Supreme Court. Native women can now marry a non-native and keep their status and rights to own or inherit family land; they can also participate in band councils, political and social affairs of their communities.
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7th-ohawk warriors set up barricades to protect their land from a golf course expansion near Oka, Quebec. The land is a Mohawk burial ground. Violence erupts between Mohawk and provincial police. The army is called in. The golf course is never built.
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9th-Elijah Harper, a Cree member of the Manitoba Legislature, refused to support the Meech Lake Accord on the grounds that the revision to the Canadian Constitution did not recognize Aboriginal rights. His action defeated the accord and sent the provinces and the federal government back to the discussion table. The Meech Lake Accord was an attempt by the federal government to win Quebec's consent to the revised Constitution.
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10th-After decades of letter-writing campaigns, members of the Stoney Point and Kettle First Nations enter Ipperwash Provincial Park in Ontario to demand that the government return the land that it occupied in 1942 for a training camp and promised to return after the war. Protester Dudley George was shot dead and two others injured by the OPP. The land was returned in 2007.
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3rd-The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples submits its report after five years.
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5th-For the first time in their history, the Nisga'a people sign a treaty with the governments of British Columbia and Canada settling a land claim on more than 2000 square kilometers of land.
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4th-Nunavut is created. Nunavut is a new territory in Canada with a majority Inuit population and Inuktitut and English as its official languages.
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8th-Members of the Six Nations (Haudenosaunee) put up barricades around a housing development near Caledonia, Ontario to demand recognition of their land title that was taken away in the 1840s. The Ontario government buys the housing development and put a ban on construction in place.
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11th- Shannen Koostachin, a 14-year old girl from Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario meets with Indian Affairs minister Chuck Strahl to demand a new “safe and comfy” school for her community. She is turned down. The school is scheduled to be finished for the 2013-14 school year.
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2nd- Canada endorses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which it had opposed since its adoption in 2007.
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12th-The Idle No More movement uses social media to call on “all people to join in a peaceful revolution, to honour Indigenous sovereignty, and to protect the land and water.” Protests such as circle dances and rail blockades are staged across the country on a wide variety of issues.
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1st-The commission looked at activities alleged to have occurred at residential schools, as well as the negative impacts of the schools' stated aim to assimilate First Nations children.