Last stand of the Lubicon Cree

Notes: "[By] John Goddard".; Includes bibliographical references (p.[221]-223) and index.; "The Lubicon Cree of northern Alberta attracted international attention in 1988 with their call to boycott the Winter Olympic Games at Calgary and their six-day takeover of a giant oil field, Their simple goal has been to secure the reserve they were promised in 1940 and to build an alternative to a once-thriving bush economy destroyed in the rush for oil and gas. But despite widespread support for the Lubicon cause, first the provincial government of Peter Lougheed and now the federal government of Brian Mulroney have put one obstacle after another in the way of a negotiated settlement. .... With insight, drama and an eye for detail, writer John Goddard presents the Lubicon Cree story in a way that illuminates the current national crisis in native affairs and points the way to solutions". -- inside front dust jacket.; Contents: Preface -- To Live and Do Well -- Good Big Chief -- Brutally Reduced to Silence -- Marten River -- The Only Good Indian -- Picking Up the Pieces -- Our White Man -- The Master Strategy -- Genocidal Consequences -- Trusting the Law -- Special Envoy -- A New Focus -- Boycott -- The Premier Takes Charge -- Lubicon Lake Nation -- Take It or Leave It -- The Woodland Cree -- Sources and Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index.

Subjects: Lubicon Lake Indian Nation - Alberta; Indigenous peoples - Treatment of - Alberta - Lubicon Lake Region; Indigenous peoples - Alberta; Indigenous peoples - Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Claims; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Land tenure; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Land transfers; Indigenous peoples - Canada - Government relations - 1951-; Ominayak, Bernard, 1950-