Nov 1 In 1999, Ronald (Lasagna) Cross, died. He was one of the most visible native players in the 1990 Oka crisis that pitted Mohawks against police and eventually the Canadian army. Nov 3 In 2021, Indigenous writers Katherena Vermette and Tomson Highway took home the top prizes at the Writers’ Trust Awards. Vermette, a Red River Métis author and poet in Winnipeg, won the $60,000 fiction award for “The Strangers.” Highway, based in Gatineau, Que., received the $60,000 non-fiction award for “Permanent Astonishment: A Memoir.’’ Nov 4 In 1997, in a landmark decision, a New Brunswick court ruled that aboriginals own the crown lands and forests of New Brunswick. In 1869, Louis Riel seized Fort Garry in Winnipeg during the Red River Rebellion. In 2015, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau…
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