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Lubicon Cree Left Out Of Treaty 8
The Lubicon people are left out of the signing of treaty 8. Therefore they forfeit the rights given to other First Nations peoples. -
Government finds out Lubicon Cree was left out of treaty 8
The government realizes the Lubicon Cree was left out of treaty 8, but still does nothing about it. Therefore they fail to recognize the Lubicon people's rights and identity as an aboriginal nation. -
Alberta begins building an all weather road
The Government begins to build a road on Lubicon land without their permission and declares them" merely squatters", on provincial land and says they have no rights to negotiate with. The Lubicon people were told they had no rights to fight the government on building on Lubicon territory. -
United States looks for other oil resources to supply their oil shortage.
Lubicon land becomes very valuable. This means the government is planning to take resources out of Lubicon territory without their consent, so the government was basically planning on robbing the Lubicon people. -
The all weather road is completed
Resource exploitation activity increases a lot. Causing animals to flee the Lubicon area, and the traditional hunting and trapping economy of the Lubicon Cree begins to crumble. -
Annual Moose harvest rates drop at an extremely fast rate
Welfare rate is raised to more than 90%, and annual trapping income per family adds up to around $400. -
Japanese Companies
A Japanese Pulp Mill is opened close to Peace River, and Alberta gives logging rights to Diashowa Paper Manufacturing Co. of Japan. Between the two this is nearly all of the Lubicon territory. -
A pipeline from the oil and gas wells spills
The pipeline spills an estimated 2800 barrels of crude oil into the wetlands near the a Lubicon community. This threatens the health and environment of the Lubicons. ( This spill was also one of the lagrgest spills in Albertan history) -
Lubicon People still struggling
To this day the Lubicon people still don't have fare rights or treatment.