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Gitksan ‘natives who ordered a
Boulder: Creek property owner
- to get SOFf: his land: have now
bought the property for close to
190,000, eo Me
Hank Jonkman, ‘of Kitimat,
_ Was building a home on ‘the land
east’ of Cedarvale*last_ month
when several Frog Clan Gitksan
showed ‘up -ani “told him he'd
have'to leave, aa
_.Gitksan’ spokesman Don
Ryan: ‘confirmed’ a. confronta-
tion took : Place" the Remem-
brance ~Day'Weekend when
natives went to’ Jonkman’s pro-
perty and told him the land was
& traditional-native fishing site

of the: Gitwangak Frog Clan.

a’mcnot .sure he was

threatened,” Ryan said, “He

was ‘given 48 hours to get the —

hell GEF the land”

<Jonkman complained to.

Peace bond, °

= Gitwangak band chief Glen
Williams ‘said two RCMP of-
. ficers tried to‘arrest him at his
homie the evening.of Nov, 9,

’ “Allegations were made by
the owner of the property that I
threatened: to’ physically beat
him up and to burn his place

‘down,’’ Williams ‘said. “That
simply wasn't the case.’

‘Williams “wasn't with the
group- that visited Jonkman in
November.‘but did say he had
previous conversations with the.

Hazelton RCMP, asking for a

property owner, : ; re
‘About 15 natives also came to
Williams’ house, he ‘said, and
after some discussion ‘the two
police ‘officers ‘left — without
Williams. :
“It was: pure and deliberate
harrassment on the part of the

are-taken off.

: Although it’s the first time
the Gitksan have paid money to
acquire land they already claim
as their own, Williams called it |
“an exceptional situation,”

“A prime :fishing site is in-

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