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Wednesday Jan. 4 at 8pm ET
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If any of you can get CTV or stream it, then this tv movie is likely to be extremely interesting.

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Background to incident:
Indepth: Ipperwash

The Stoney Point Band are descended from Tecumseh, a warrior who advocated pan-Indian unity and who fought with the British to turn back American forces during the War of 1812.
[In] 1942… the federal government expropriated land belonging to the Stony Point band under the War Measures Act in order to build a military camp - Camp Ipperwash. In the years following, the band tried to get the land back, claiming it contained a burial ground destroyed when the camp was built… Shortly after the war ended, the Department of National Defense said it was willing to return most of the land as long as it could lease back what it still needed for the military base. The offer was later withdrawn.

By 1972, tensions were rising. According to the federal minister of Indian Affairs of the time – Jean Chrètien [later to be Prime Minister] – the Stony Point band… was beginning to run out of patience. Chrètien suggested in a memo to then defence minister, James Richardson, that if the land was not going to be returned, the band should be offered another piece of land as compensation. Twenty years later, there was still no resolution. In 1993, Stony Point band members began moving back on to the land. The military withdrew in September 1995, when another group of Stony Point natives marched onto the base…

The Ontario Provincial Police moved in on the protesters to remove them from the park. The police say they had no choice but to draw their guns because the protesters were armed; the protesters say the opposite, that they were unarmed and that police - dressed in riot gear - used unnecessary force. And they pointed the blame squarely at then-premier Mike Harris, claiming he issued the go-ahead order for the police to rush the barricades in a nighttime raid.
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Interview with author:
**One dead Indian: **Q & A with author Peter Edwards about the Ipperwash Inquiry

Legal proceedings:
The Ipperwash Inquiry

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This movie is on in a few minutes. 8:00 ET. See if you can stream it from CTV.
 
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