“My grandmother and mother have a trap line of their own on which they go hunting and snaring but

24M arch 2010AI Index: AMR 20/005/2010THE RIGHTS OF THE LUBICON CREE MUST BE PROTECTED“My grandmother and mother have a trap line of their own on which they go hunting and snar ingbut it is rare that they will bring any rabbits, moose, deer, prairie chickens, or even bears backhome…With all these roads, semis, loud machinery, and cutting down of the forests, wil dlife hasbeen scared. This has affected our way of life, the Aboriginal Peoples of Lubicon Lake Nat ion.Simply because our tradition is to hunt and bring home moose meat, chicken, and rabbit for thefamily to feast on and to make moose and squirrel hide to sell and get money in exchange. But b ynot having the right to change this intrusion, it is rare that this will happen and our tradition willeventually fade away.” Dawn Seeseequon, age 17, Lubicon CreeTwenty years ago, on 26 March 1990, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (the Committee) ruled that Canada had violated the human rights of the Lubicon Cree, an Indigenous people who have lived for centuries in what is now the province of Alberta. The ruling was based on evidence that Canada had failed to recognize and protect Lubicon rights to their lands and that intensive oil and gas development had devastated the Lubicon economy and way of life. The Committee ruled that “historical inequities… and certain more recent developments… threaten the way of life and culture of the Lubicon Lake Band and… so long as they continue” constitute a ...