Editorial: Justice for the Lubicon

Long before movements such as Idle No More, the Dakota pipeline protest and the Oka Crisis, a small northern Alberta Cree band came to symbolize the struggle for Indigenous rights and self-determination.
The Lubicon dispute has endured for 85 years — so long that many of the original members who started the land claim in 1933 died before seeing a landmark $121-million deal with the federal and provincial governments.
The protracted, often bitter, dispute also outlasted other figures who pl