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Lubicon gets left out of the treaty
The Lubicon was in an isolated area and missed by the treaty commissioners. To this day there is still no treaty signed with the Lubicon cree. -
Indian Affairs officials promise the Lubicon a reserve
The Lubicon are recognized as a distinct Indigenous society by the Indian Affairs officials and they promise the Lubicon a reserve along the shore of Lubicon lake. -
Oil is found on the Lubicon land
Oil was found on the land that the Lubicon lived on and the government of Alberta was then motivated to ask the federal government about the reserve. -
Government builds road
The Alberta government builds a road on the Lubicon land without their consent so that they can begin to extract oil. The government decided that the Lubicon people had no rights to the land, therefore they had no rights to negotiate with the government as to what would happen to the land. -
The government refuses the Lubicon attempt to file a caveat
The Lubicon requested to file a notice that the title of the land that they lived on was contested but the government refused to accept it. -
Lubicon case in court
The law is in favour of the Lubicon case but the government rewrites the law before the Lubicon filed their caveat. The Lubicon case is then dismissed from court. -
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Government drills oil pumps
Oil pumps were drilled near the Lubicon land -
Resource exploitation activity explodes
The road is finished which gives the government full and easy access to the land and collecting oil from it. -
The Lubicon take federal action
After the Lubicon request declaratory judgment he Albertan government declares that their community is an official provincial hamlet and that they are no longer able to establish an Indian reserve. The province of Alberta then solicits people for a land tenure program and any resident that fails to comply faces fines and demolition. -
The Lubicon apply for an emergency court injunction
The Lubicon applied for the emergency court injunction to attempt to stop further resource extraction from the area that they lived on -
Lubicon still births/miscarriages
Out of 21 pregnancies with in the Lubicon group, 19 of the pregnancies resulted in still-births or miscarriages. -
The Lubicon boycott the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary
30 museums worldwide supported them in this by not providing artifacts to the Indian exhibit sponsored by Shell Oil. -
Canada ignores UN Human Rights Committee ruling
The UN Human Rights Committee instructs Canada to stop any further irreparable damage to the Lubicon pending a hearing of human rights violations but Canada ignores their instructions. -
Lubicon withdraw from court action
The Lubicon withdrew from court action after 14 years, asserted sovereignty over the land and built a barricade to force the government to stop all the oil activity. The RCMP removed the barricades. -
Grimshaw accord
Don Getty, Alberta's Premier, and Chief Ominayak meet and make the Grimshaw accord that allows a 243 kilometer square reserve for the Lubicon people. -
The UN charges Canada
Canada was charged by the UN with a human rights violation under the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights. -
Sour gas plant
A sour gas processing plant was put in near the Lubicon land -
Boycott of Daishowa
47 companies join the Lubicon in boycotting the Daishowa paper company by not buying any of their paper because they clear cut trees on the Lubicon land. During the boycott Daishowa stops clearcutting on their land and four years later the boycott is stopped because Daishowa agrees to no longer buy or cut wood on the Lubicon land until the land rights are settled. -
The Albertan Government continues to lease out Lubicon territory
The Lubicon land is being leased out by the Alberta government to multinational corporations that do not respect the land and that still continue to contaminate and exploit the land.
