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\u00a0By Jon Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 Members of Red Rock Indian Band and their supporters brought all traffic to a halt between eastern and western Canada at the Nipigon Bridge for an hour on Monday morning. The shut-down came after pre-contact human remains were found at a nearby park construction site. Demonstrators from across the Robinson-Superior Treaty area called on Parks Canada to cease construction and acknowledge what the First Nation says are systemic mistakes that caused this to happen. In May, four unique sets of human remains were overturned in development of Parks Canada\u2019s $37-million Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area visitor\u2019s centre in Nipigon, 100 kilometres east of Thunder Bay. Carbon dating ordered by Red Rock Chief Allen Odawa Jr. showed the person with the most complete… <\/p>\n

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\u00a0By Jon Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 Members of Red Rock Indian Band and their supporters brought all traffic to a halt between eastern and western Canada at the Nipigon Bridge for an hour on Monday morning. The shut-down came after pre-contact human remains were found at a nearby park construction site. Demonstrators from across the Robinson-Superior Treaty area called on Parks Canada to cease construction and acknowledge what the First Nation says are systemic mistakes that caused this to happen. In May, four unique sets of human remains were overturned in development of Parks Canada\u2019s $37-million Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area visitor\u2019s centre in Nipigon, 100 kilometres east of Thunder Bay. Carbon dating ordered by Red Rock Chief Allen Odawa Jr. showed the person with the most complete... <\/p>\n

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