Bison Lake
| Bison Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Northern Sunrise County , Northern Alberta , Canada | |
| Tributaries | Wolverine River | |
| Drain | Wolverine River → Peace River | |
| Location close to the shore | Peace River | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 57 ° 12 '9 " N , 116 ° 9' 59" W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 572 m | |
| length | 8.3 km | |
| width | 5.2 km | |
The Bison Lake and Bison Lake is a up to 8.3 km long and 5.2 km wide lake in the north of the Canadian province of Alberta to the east of Peace River . It is entered on a map made in 1905 as "Buffalo Lake".
history
During the clashes between the Lubicon Cree and Alberta, but above all with the federal government in Ottawa , which lasted for decades, and in the course of which the UN campaigned for the First Nation in 1990 , the small lake gained a certain importance. The chief of the Lubicon, Bernard Ominayak, had designated it as the sacred place of the tribe during the negotiations. It was a burial place. The tribe had never been asked to sign one of the so-called Numbered Treaties , so that they had no reservation. In 1940 there was an agreement on a reservation of 25.4 square miles (approx. 2.59 km²) for the 127 tribesmen at the time, but the Second World War never resulted in a contract, especially since Malcom McCrimmon from the Department of Indian Affairs unauthorizedly removed 90 tribesmen from the official list and refused recognition to the tribe. In addition, the children were forced to attend school in Little Buffalo , so that the tribe left Lubicon Lake to settle there. Since the usual measure for estimating the land requirement for an Indian reserve in Canada was 128 acres per recognized tribal member, but their number had risen to 478 in 1988, and thus their claim now comprised 95.6 square miles (almost 250 km²), the Lubicon refused government land supply from 79 square miles (just over 200 km²). In addition was within the last half century for some 5 billion dollars of oil have been executed by their country illegally, making a compensation of $ 100 million was due.
The background to the disputes is Alberta's demand to obtain the unrestricted right to the mineral resources, either through resettlement or by appropriating the claim to the mineral resources below the reserves. The first publication on the mineral resources at Bison Lake was published in 1943, in 1978 the Financial Post Survey of Mines and Energy Resources reported on gas drilling activities on the lake, test wells had already been reported in 1967, while the province was still officially negotiating with the Lubicon.
literature
- O. Tokarsky: Hydrogeology of the Bison Lake Area, Alberta , Research Council of Alberta, 1972.
Web links
- Sand and Gravel Deposits with Aggregate Potential Bison Lake, Alberta , Alberta Energy Regulator Map (PDF)
Remarks
- ↑ Canadian Geographical Names: Place names - Bison Lake , accessed May 9, 2016
- ^ Merrily K. Aubrey: Concise Place Names of Alberta , University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 32.
- ^ Ward Churchill: Struggle for the Land. Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization , City Lights Books, 2002, p. 230, note 58.
- ^ Dawn Martin-Hill: The Lubicon Lake Nation. Indigenous Knowledge and Power , University of Toronto Press, 2008, p. 16 ff.
- ↑ In April 2016 the state counted 533 ( Lubicon Cree ( Memento des original from May 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada).
- ↑ LS Russell: Sexsmith -Bison Lake preliminary map, Geological Survey of Canada. The internal report is available from Donald F. Stott: Lower Cretaceous Fort St. John Group and Upper Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation of the Foothills and Plains of Alberta, British Columbia, District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory , Geological Survey of Canada, 1982, p. 91 called.
- ^ Report of the Research Council of Alberta, 1967, p. 116.
