Judge who jailed KI 6 named interim head of Indigenous law school in Thunder Bay – APTN News
May 4, 2018
A judge who jailed six members of the Kitchenumaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation in Treaty 9 has been named the interim head of the Indigenous law school at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay.
Ten years ago, Justice George Patrick Smith sent the chief and five councillors from KI to jail for contempt of court because they refused to stop blocking access to their territory to a resource company.
Chief Donny Morris was one of those jailed.
“For him to take interim… it has to be somebody else in that position,” Morris told APTN News.
“It is a polluted environment now. Some sort of opposition will be forthcoming in the form of a letter.”
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