Mastodon Saskatchewan looking to shut down teepee camp demonstrations

Saskatchewan looking to shut down teepee camp demonstrations

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REGINA — The Saskatchewan government is asking a judge to order an Indigenous protest camp to leave the legislature grounds.

Government lawyer Michael Morris told a Regina court that indigenous demonstrators are making it hard for the province to maintain the land across from the building.

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Teepees have been set up for six months as campers protest racial injustice and the disproportionate number of Indigenous children apprehended by child-welfare workers.

Protesters have filed a court application of their own seeking to have six arrests made during an eviction in June declared illegal.