Film: Our Land, My People
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No More Oil Development without Human Rights
Join Amnesty International in demanding justice for the Lubicon Cree of northern Alberta. Massive oil and gas development has almost wiped out the traditional economy and way of life of the Lubicon. Billions of dollars of oil and gas has been taken from their land, yet the Lubicon have been plunged into poverty.
The film Our Land, My People tells the story of the decades long struggle of the Lubicon Cree for control of their own traditional lands.
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Back to school: Learning from the Lubicon struggle
Lubicon trapper's cabin
The Lubicon struggle tells us a lot about Canada: about Aboriginal relations, human rights, justice, history and the environment. The following tools can be used to bring the Lubicon story into the classroom.
A teacher’s guide to the film “Our Land, My People: The Struggle of the Lubicon Cree” (PDF)
Lubicon students speak out for their rights
Timeline of the Lubicon struggle (PDF)
Downloadable slideshow with notes on the impact of oil and gas development on Lubicon lands (PowerPoint)
Lifesaver: a plain language human rights appeal on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
From Homeland to Oil Sands: The impact of oil and gas development on the Lubicon Cree of Canada
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Amnesty’s new report on the decades long struggle for justice for the Lubicon Cree
More than 2,600 oil and gas wells have been drilled on Lubicon Cree land in northern Alberta, Canada. This intensive development has taken place against the wishes of the Lubicon people and has had tragic consequences for their society and livelihoods. There are fears that even more destructive forms of extraction are planned for the future.
International human rights bodies have long been critical of the poverty, widespread ill-health and culture loss that has resulted from the near total destruction of the Lubicon economy and way of life. Until 1979, hunting, trapping and other traditional activities had made the Lubicon largely self-sufficient
> Download the Report (pdf, 0.5 mB)
Feature: New maps show the devastating impact of oil and gas development on Lubicon land
A new series of maps commissioned by Amnesty International shows the devastating scale of oil and gas development that has already taken place on Lubicon land. These maps also show that even more intensive forms of development are being planned.
Speak Out for Justice
“The expectation should not be that the Lubicon Cree should have to stand alone…It’s about every one of us, as human beings, actually doing things to help one another, to make sure that you are afforded the same rights, to be able to have a good life, to have schools, to have access to recreation, and to also have the traditional ways of your community be sustained – not wiped out just for the all-mighty dollar.” – Bev Ray, President, CUPW Edmonton Local, 19 June 2010
The situation of the Lubicon Cree is one of the longest-running and most notorious land rights disputes in Canada.Despite 20 years of condemnation by United Nations human rights bodies, the rights of the Lubicon are still not recognized or protected
It’s up to each of us to speak out for justice.
If you can only spare a minute, please sign our online petition.
If you can take ten minutes, please write a short letter to the Premier of Alberta.
If you have a half-hour, view our video documentary on the Lubicon struggle.
If you have longer, get together with friends and family to join our photo petition.
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Lubicon youth speak out for justice
Lubicon students with UN Human Rights Committee members
“I’m standing up for what I believe in. This is the place that I come from.” -Daphne Ominayak, 16
Since the beginning of massive oil and gas development on their lands in 1979, young people in the Lubicon community have faced overwhelming poverty and a struggle to maintain their ties to the culture and way of life of their elders.
Twenty years ago, the UN Human Rights Committee urged Canada to respect the rights of the Lubicon Cree and to reach a just resolution of their land dispute. If Canada had complied with this ruling, the lives of Lubicon youth would be very different today
To mark the anniversary of the historic UN ruling, Amnesty International, the Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers), KAIROS, and the Alberta Federation of Labour and the Agriculture Union (PSAC) sponsored a human rights essay contest at the school in the Lubicon community of Little Buffalo. The three contest winners, Leticia Gladue, Daphne Ominayak and Dawn Seeseequon, travelled to the United Nations in New York to meet with the UN Human Rights Committee.
Message to the United Nations: Human rights of the Lubicon Cree must be protected
- There is no negotiated agreement on Lubicon land rights and no talks with the Lubicon since 2003.
- Intensive oil and gas development on Lubicon land has steadily accelerated.
- The provincial government has never sought Lubicon consent for this development.
- The massive scale of development on Lubicon land has made hunting, trapping and other traditional sources of income and subsistence all but impossible.
- The Lubicon people have received little assistance to cope with the loss of traditional livelihoods or to develop alternative sources of income and subsistence.
- Their community does not have access to services taken for granted in other communities in Canada such as safe drinking water and sanitation.
Take action for Justice for the Lubicon Cree
Help put an end to decades of injustice for the Lubicon Cree by speaking out and helping to spread the word.
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Sign the ePetition to the Alberta Government
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach
Add your signature to Amnesty’s ePetition and send a message to the government of Alberta demanding a moratorium on new oil drilling until a fair and just agreement is reached with the Lubicon Cree.
1622 messages have already been sent.
Write a Letter
Speak out for justice for the Lubicon Cree by sending a hand-written or typed letter to the governments of Canada and Alberta reminding them of the pressing need for a negotiated land settlement with the Lubicon Cree.
> Read instructions for writing and helpful information.
Join the Photo Petition
Send us your image showing your solidarity with the Lubicon Cree. We will add it to the global gallery of supporters for the Lubicon Cree
> View the gallery and add your photo to the photo petition.