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Kanahus Manuel poses for a photo near Chase, BC, in this photo from September 6, 2017.
The Canadian Press
Aboriginal political activist is in custody following A demonstration in northern British Columbia Thompson Provincial Park, [Kananus Manuel] a spokesman for the Tiny House Warriors activist group, was arrested by the RCMP after allegedly defying a police order. Expulsion from the BC Parks Service rendered Thursday
. belongs to the Secwepemc First Nation, which issued a statement Saturday afternoon calling Manuel's arrest a "declaration of war."
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In the release of the Secwepemc Women's Warrior Society, Manuel is designated as a political prisoner of the "White supremacist RCMP and watchmen of the Canadian state" Who, according to them, intend to force the Tiny House Warriors to The Secwepemc considers the ancestral territories. The declaration adds that the territories have never been badigned to a Canadian government.
Dawn Roberts with BC The RCMP stated that members traveled to North Thompson Provincial Park to meet with protesters and discuss the eviction notice. She said that the liaison team continued to have conversations with the protesters after the arrest, and that the remaining protesters started packing the tiny houses that they had built
"These discussions were extremely positive, very respectful, very understanding "In a telephone interview,
Snutetkwe Manuel stated that his sister had been accused of mischief after the group refused to leave the park, although Roberts did not not confirmed that charges had been filed
has no jurisdiction in the park.
"This is a Secwepemc village site.Our people died of smallpox here," she said.
Manuel said that there were about six other protesters with her When she was arrested, including two elders from the village, she later recorded and posted on her Facebook page a video of a conversation with two RCMP officers who prevented her from being arrested. 39, entering the encampment, what she said to help her mother pack her luggage
The protest had first started in the form of a three-day tattoo ceremony of the July 6 to 9 and became a blockade of Trans Mountain before July 11.
Roberts says she did not know precisely why the eviction order had been filed by BC Parks, but was says that the tattoo ceremony forced the closure of the park and canceled the bookings for campers.
Kanahus Manuel has answered earlier this week, saying that his people have been inconvenienced by colonialism for more than 150 years. have been displaced from our lands. There are internationally protected rights that (for example) the natives can use and occupy their land exclusively to maintain our culture, our language and our ways, "Manuel said in an interview.
In a post on Tiny Facebook group House Warriors According to Manuel, the Trudeau government left it to the "other choice" group only to recover its hereditary lands by occupying the territory that the Trans Mountain pipeline would cross
-by Spencer Harwood in Vancouver [19659018] The story continues further down.
