Lubicon Lake Asks Canada to Stay Out of Community Affairs

In an attempt to reassert their sovereignty and enact self determination, the Lubicon Lake Nation of Little Buffalo, Alberta have called Canada back to the negotiating table after the government refused to deal with the Nation’s rightful government over what they called a “leadership dispute.”

According to the First Nation, the government refused to work with the Nation’s Chief Ominayak and his Council after the government claimed that a separate group had declared rightful leadership but the First Nation said that this wasn’t the case.

The First Nation sent Aboriginal Affairs Northern Development Canada Minister John Duncan a letter decreeing Ominayak as their Chief. It also requesting that the government remove their agents from the community and refrain from any further interference.