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1492 Land Back Lane returns to court, housing developer seeks permanent injunction


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1492 Land Back Lane representative Skyler Williams was back in court today in Cayuga.

Williams says his fight to stave off an injunction against occupying certain lands he insists are unceded Haudenosaunee territory continues.

On the final day of the two-day hearing at the Cayuga courthouse, Williams’s lawyers argued to halt a permanent injunction sought by Foxgate Developments over the land dispute at the Mackenzie Meadows site in Caledonia.

Today, Williams council, Community Justice Collective, argued in part, “…every injunction involving Indigenous people in history has led to criminalization of Indigenous people…”

The defence also argued that not all avenues of consultation were exhausted, despite the elected Six Nations band council’s approval of the development. Foxgate’s counsel Paul Demelo argues, “…aren’t members of the elected council Haudenosaunee members as well?”

Williams says dealing with their Indigenous community is a “bureaucratic nightmare” but says it is not of their choosing.

CHCH News has reached out to Six Nations elected Chief Mark Hill for comment and we have yet to hear back.