Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Big Trout Lake) First Nation

MCC Ontario continues to work with Aboriginal partners in the far north on government reforms to the mining act.

 

Chief Donny Morris, Deputy Chief Jack McKay, councilors Sam McKay, Darryl Sainnawap, Cecilia Begg, and band member Bruce Sakakeep were sentenced to six months in jail after demonstrating peacefully on their traditional territory. They are protesting mining company operations on their traditional lands in Northwestern Ontario.