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Date: 8/13/91
The 7th European Meeting of North American Indian Support Groups
July, 15 - 20th 1991, Stadtroda, Thuringia, Germany
Resolution on Daishowa and the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation
WHEREAS the people of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation have
never ceded ownership of their traditional territory in any legally or
historically recognized way;
AND WHEREAS the Governments of Canada and Alberta claim
jurisdiction over traditional Lubicon Territory with no apparent legal
or historical justification;
AND WHEREAS the Goverments of Canada and Alberta have
sought to impose their questionable jurisdiction over unceded
Lubicon territory by, among other things, selling Lubicon natural
resources;
AND WHEREAS over the past 15 years the Goverments of Canada
and Alberta have sold the right to exploit Lubicon oil resources to
dozens of oil companies, whose massive exploitation activities have
destroyed the traditional Lubicon hunting and trapping economy and
threatened the very existence of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation;
AND WHEREAS the Governments of Canada and Alberta have now
sold the trees from the unceded Lubicon territory to a Japanese
forestry company named Daishowa;
AND WHEREAS Daishowa plans to start clear-cutting huge parts of
the unceded Lubicon Territory as early as this fall, which, if those
plans are acted upon, will almost certainly assure the complete
destruction and extinction of the traditional Lubicon society;
NOW THEREFORE, we, the participants of the 7th European
Meeting of North American Indian Support Groups, representing
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany,
Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, the
United Kingdom, the United States and various aboriginal nations and
organizations, do hereby demand that Daishowa not take advantage
of the jurisdictional dispute between the Governments of Canada and
the Lubicon Indian Nation for it`s own economic benefit and stay out
of the traditional Lubicon territory until the jurisdictional dispute
between both levels of Canadian Government and the Lubicon Lake
Indian Nation is satisfactorily resolved.
Moved by: Peter Schwarzbauer, Society for Threatened Peoples, Austria
Seconded by: Oliver Kluge, Big Mountain Aktionsgruppe, Germany
Passed: Unanimously
Date: July 17, 1991
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Chairman of the Meeting: Bernd Damisch
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