Sep 29, 2024
Native Peoples Caravan, Parliament Hill, 1974
The Native Peoples Caravan arrived at Parliament Hill on Monday morning, September 30, 1974.
“The RCMP had the guns, the bayonets and the tear gas; we had a drum and a sheet of paper with our demands.” – Louis Cameron, Ojibway Warriors Society. On September 29, 1974, the Native Peoples Caravan arrived in Ottawa. From uprisings that summer at the Two Springs occupation in Secwepemc and the reoccupation of Anishinaabe Park by the Ojibway Warriors Society, the Caravan was joined by people…