[BRIEF NOTE] Scotchfort Affairs
Aug. 17th, 2004 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI was surprised to hear of the Mi'kMaq reservation at Scotchfort, on Prince Edward Island, come up in the news. Factional violence over the reservation's leadership as The Guardian describes, is unexpected:
Has anyone heard anything more?
Gould said the root of the altercation lies in Jadis’s refusal to accept the results of the August 2003 band election.
“He wants revenge on the people of this community for what happened in the results of the election,” Gould said.
“It’s really just one family and some supporters that Francis Jadis had brought over from New Brunswick.”
Jadis said it is he and his family who have been the victims of harassment.
“We’re just upset about the way they have been running the band. The jobs have all gone to Junior (Gould) supporters,” he said.
“There’s all this fishing going on but they won’t even let me have a clam licence because they’re scared I might make a little money.”
Has anyone heard anything more?
