Innu blockade secured a court-ordered environmental review

Evidence

Innu and Inuit went to the courts to stop what the company called “advanced exploration infrastructure,” which could have occurred without an environmental assessment. Their claims initially rejected by the courts, the Innu blockaded the site in the Summer of 1997, with some 300 protesters stopping the company’s work. The blockade continued until the court finally ruled in favor of the Innu and ordered a stop to further construction, pending the completion of an environmental review. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 367

Categorization

• XREF: Physical resistance forcing legal reversal echoes ch8’s point that civil disobedience against colonial courts becomes psychological liberation; connects to eco-justice tactics thread. — connects to: Civil disobedience against colonial courts becomes a process of psychological liberation — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 320