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Federal government, Ontario First Nation sign $95M settlement over Camp Ipperwash

Blockade of highway near Ipperwash, Ontario, 1995, after the shooting death of Dudley George by Ontario Provincial Police.

By Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press, April 14, 2016

A bitter and bloody land dispute between Ottawa and a southwestern Ontario First Nation that culminated in the police killing of an aboriginal protester two decades ago has formally come to an end.

Pierre George recovering in Sarnia hospital after being engulfed in flames during demonstration at former Camp Ipperwash

Pierre George, brother of Dudley George, suffered burns after confrontation at Stony Point (Ipperwash), Ontario. Photo: Vice.com

By Jennifer O’Brien, The London Free Press, September 21, 2015

The day after he was engulfed in flames during a demonstration at Stony Point, Pierre George joked he was “a little crispy,” but otherwise feeling well.

“I just got burns on my hands and my eyes, skin coming off . . . and (the fire) burnt my mohawk,” said George, reached Monday by phone in a Sarnia hospital where he was recovering in the intensive care unit.

George, 61, is the brother of Dudley George, the native protester shot dead by an OPP officer during the 1995 Ipperwash standoff 20 years ago.

Brother of Ipperwash protester Dudley George accidentally sets himself ablaze during protest

Pierre George engulfed in flames during conflict at Stony Point (Ipperwash), Ontario. Photo: London Free Press.

The Globe and Mail/The Canadian Press, Sept. 20, 2015

The brother of an aboriginal protester shot dead by police 20 years ago has been injured while protesting a settlement deal for lands in southwestern Ontario that were appropriated by the federal government during the Second World War.

Witnesses say Pierre George was injured when he accidentally set himself ablaze while pouring gasoline on a fire that had been set by the protesters to get the attention of people marching to celebrate the return of Camp Ipperwash. There was no immediate word on his condition.

Ont. First Nation ratifies $90M compensation agreement for Camp Ipperwash

Blockade of highway near Ipperwash, Ontario, September 1995, after the shooting death of Dudley George by Ontario Provincial Police.

CTV News/The Canadian Press, September 19, 2015 

SARNIA, Ont. — A southwestern Ontario First Nation says it has ratified an agreement in the dispute over Camp Ipperwash, which saw the death of aboriginal protester Dudley George in 1995.

In a release Saturday, the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation said eligible voting members approved the deal with the federal government in a vote held on Friday.

The First Nation says the agreement includes a financial settlement in excess of $90 million, the return of land appropriated by the federal government in 1942 under the War Measures Act and cleanup of Stony Point lands.

Federal government seeking end to long-running Ipperwash dispute offers $95M, return of land

Blockade of highway near Ipperwash, Ontario, 1995, after the shooting death of Dudley George by Ontario Provincial Police.

by Barbara Simpson, National Post, August 14, 2015

SARNIA, Ont. — Almost 20 years after a deadly confrontation between natives and police at Ontario’s Ipperwash Provincial Park, the federal government is offering to pay a $95-million settlement and return Camp Ipperwash — a military training site adjacent to the park — to the natives from whom it was expropriated during the Second World War.

The 56-hectare park and adjacent camp at the southern end of Lake Huron were the site of a 1995 native occupation that resulted in the death of Dudley George, an unarmed native protester who was shot and killed by a member of the Ontario Provincial Police.

Barricade erected over First Nation’s use of Ontario’s Ipperwash Beach

Tractor from the Kettle and Stony Point band removes gate and signage along beach, Dec 2014.

Members of the First Nation have long walked the beach, but addition of vehicles has sparked safety concerns

The Canadian Press/CBC News, Dec 07, 2014

Cooler heads should prevail and upper levels of government must step in after a First Nation in southwestern Ontario tore down barriers and began driving along a stretch of beach near the site of the 1995 Ipperwash crisis, the local mayor said Sunday.

Kettle and Stony Point First Nation took down the gates blocking vehicle access to Ipperwash Beach on Lake Huron on Friday, saying the route encompasses the band’s “historical trails” and that the community wasn’t consulted when the no-entry gates first went up in 1973.

Ipperwash, 1995

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Ipperwash/Aazhoodena 1995

Introduction

Ipperwash, also known as Stoney Point & Aazhoodena, was one of two confrontations in the summer of 1995 between Indigenous people & Canadian police-military forces. While events in Stoney Point unfolded, the siege at Gustafsen Lake/Ts’Peten was already underway. In the BC interior, 450 heavily-armed RCMP had laid siege to a small group of Secwepemc Sundancers.