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Lubicon Cree and Treaty 8
When the signing of Treaty 8 takes place as an agreement with all the First Nations, the Lubicon Cree were left out of it. -
Band List
A government official decided that the Lubicon were not considered 'authentic aboriginals' along with other band groups. The official delete their names off the band list. They did this a lot in later decades. -
Oil
Oil had been discovered where the Lubicon Cree, hunted and fished. -
U.S. Wants Oil
The U.S. looks to Canada for more oil, because of the Middle East's War and Lack of oil delivery. Everyone went to the Lubicon area. -
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Yom Kippur War
In the Middle East, a war breaks out, preventing the main oil company from reaching the rest of the world. -
The Logging Company
Alberta, Canada, granted logging rights to the Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Company of Japan, to cut down trees to feed into a pulp mill on what was nearly all of the Lubicons land. -
Campaign
Chief Bernard Ominayak and the Lubicon Cree launched a campaign to get support for their cause and to get the Alberta Government to recognize them as aboriginals. -
John Goddard's Book
When the news reporter John Goddard found out about the Lubicon Cree, he was interested in the struggle for the Lubicons to assert their rights, and wanted to learn all about it. He wrote book called the 'Last Stand of the Lubicon Cree'.