The following remarks were given by Conway Arthurson from Fox Lake Cree Nation at the Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearing Community Meeting in Split Lake.
“In 1999 my dad, myself and the former chief, Tom Nepitabo, spoke at Interchurch Inquiry. And my dad talked about that, he talked about how the RCMP would throw them in jail, and then they would call the iron workers, from camp to come in and beat them up. There were times when there were women in there that got raped. There is another woman who was 13, got taken by a group of men, and driven out of town, and raped and beat. And, it took her many years for her to tell her story.” – Conway Arthurson, Fox Lake Cree Nation
Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (MCEC). Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearing Community Meeting: Tataskweyak Cree Nation. (October 8, 2013). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Tataskweyak Metawekamik Centre in Split Lake, MB. Page 90, lines 2-11. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/keeyask-generation-project/doc/Transcripts/Public_Hearing_Oct_8,2013_Split_Lake.pdf
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