The results from the James Bay Cree referendum were announced in
Montreal yesterday, October 25, 1995. Today's Ottatwa Citizen carried
a front page story on the results. Of the eligble Cree voters, there
was a 77% turnout rate that voted 96% in favour of staying in Canada.
The Inuit hold their referendum today. Additional stories were
carried by the CBC and CTV networks news.
Quebec still insists that if the results from next Tuesday's
referendum is in favour of separation then all of Quebec will go,
including the Cree and Inuit lands which comprises about two-thirds of
the province's land base. This territory also includes the huge James
Bay Hydro-electric complex. After confederation in 1867, the federal
government made two land grants to the province, one in 1898 and the
other in 1912, to extend Quebec to its present borders. Quebec still
refuses to acknowledge or discuss the Cree's right to self-determi-
nation or their right to remain in Canada.
Federal government has not commented on whether or not that they will
recognize the results of the Cree vote.
I will continue to post updates on a daily basis until next Tuesday
morning. After that, I will be out of town and away from my computer
for a week.
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A friend of mine forwarded the below. I haven't had a chance to check
them out yet but for those of you with a Web browser may be interested
in them as well. Apparently the Globe and Mail, "Canada's National
Newspaper", had soem good coverage yesterday on the Cree story.
Paul
| Subject: Newspaper addresses
| Author: Lyle Henderson at ARCHAEOLOGY
| Date: 10/26/95 8:48 AM
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| Paul,
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| The addresses for the newspapers that I have found on-line.
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| National News Briefs
| http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca/Media/TodaysNews/NatBriefs.html
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| Front Pages
| http://www.infomart.ca/todays_news/index.html
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| Globe and Mail
| http://www.globeandmail.ca/
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| Will let you know if I find any others that may be of interest.
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| Lyle
A. Paul Antone
Special Projects Officer
Federal Archaeology Office
National Historic Sites Directorate
Parks Canada
Department of Canadian Heritage
The views and opinions expressed here are my own and they do not
necessarily reflect those of the Department of Canadian Heritage
or the Government of Canada.
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Comments from NativeNet listowner, Gary Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us):
Here are a few other possibly-useful Web addresses for finding information
on the story:
CBC television "Prime-Time News"
http://www.cbc.ca/sites/ptn/ptn.html
Halifax Daily News
http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca/Media/TodaysNews/TodaysNews.html
Halifax Herald
http://www.herald.ns.ca/
I'll post more URLs for Canadian news sources if I come across them.
Gary