On the 50th anniversary of the Anicinabe Park occupation, veterans call for the landback | APTN News

In the summer of 1974, dozens of First Nations youth led by the Ojibway Warriors Society, launched an armed occupation of Anicinabe Park in Kenora, Ont., a couple of hours east of Winnipeg.

At 20 years old, Sally Skead was one of them.

“It was a hard time for our people,” Skead said on Friday. “There was a lot of violence towards our people at the time. And a lot of the young people were tired of it.”

On National Indigenous Peoples Day, she was among the surviving veterans honoured for the 50th anniversary of the occupation.

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