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Treaty 8
The Lubicon lived in an inaccessible area so therefor they missed the signing of treaty 8. Even today no treaty has been signed with the Lubicon. -
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Indian affairs visit
The Lubicon are visited by Indian affairs, they realized that they were separate and are promised a reserve. -
Oil discovery
The government of Alberta discovered oil on the Cree reserve and questioned the federal government about the reserve. -
Building of road
The Alberta government decided to build a all season road on the Lubicon land without their consent. They claimed that the Lubicon were just merely squatters on Provincial ground. -
Court ruling
A court ruling clearly shows the law is on the Lubicons side. Premium Lougheed's government passed a bill that rewrote the law governing caveats and made that retroactive to a time before the Lubicon tried to file it. Then the case was dismissed. -
Road completed
The all weather road the Albertan government was building was finished. Resource activity explodes. -
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Lubicon land rights
the Lubicons take court action request a declaratory judgement about the land rights. the Albertan government decided to name the Lucons reserve an official hamlet therefor not a reserve. So the Lubicons did not have any rights. -
Emergency court injunction
The Lubricon apply for an emergency court injunction to stop the taking of their resources of their land as a part of the 1980 treaty. -
Fact-finding mission
A mission by the world council of churches conclude that the government and multinational oil companies have been causing genocidal consequences. -
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Stillbirths
The Lubicons found that after all the oil work, 19 out of 21 births in the village were stillbirths. -
Canada ignores Lubicon ruling
The UN human rights committee studies the Lubicons for 3 years, and state that they cannot achieve effective legal redress anywhere in Canada. So they instructed Canada to do no further damage to the Lubicons. Canada ignores the ruling. -
Grimshaw Accord
After 14 year the Lubicon decide to withdraw from court action, assert sovereignty over their land. The Lubicon build a blockade to stop all oil trucks from passing into their land. Armed RCMP officers forcefully remove it. Alberta premium Don Getty meets with them which leads to the "Grimshaw Accord" an agreement for a 243-square kilometer reserve. -
UN charges Canada against human rights
UN charges Canada for Human rights violation under the International Covenant on civil rights, stating that the new development of the oil roads threaten the lives and cutler of the Lubicon Cree. -
Daishowa boycott
The boycot of Daishowa gained the support of 47 different companies that represented 4,300 retailers who ceased from buying Daishowa paper products. Daishowa did not clear cut any part of the Lubicon forest while the boycott was in effect. four years later Daishowa agrees not to log or purchase logs cut on Lubicon land until the rights are settled. The boycott was then ended. -
Land claim
The Lubicons land claim is still outstanding. The government of Alberta still leases the Lubicon land to oil companies that contaminate the land.