Gustafsen Lake standoff
1995 indigenous conflict in British Columbia, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gustafsen Lake standoff was a land dispute that led to a confrontation between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Indigenous protestors (Tsʼpeten Defenders) and non-Indigenous protestors in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, at Gustafsen Lake (known as Tsʼpeten in the Shuswap language).
Gustafsen Lake Standoff | |||
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Date | August 18 - September 17, 1995 | ||
Location | Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia, Canada | ||
Resulted in | Crisis ended | ||
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The standoff began on August 18, 1995, and lasted for 31 days, ending on September 17, when the few remaining protestors left the site peacefully.[1][2] The RCMP operation during the standoff ended up being the most costly of its kind to date in modern Canadian history, having involved 400 police officers and support from the Canadian Armed Forces in the form of Operation Wallaby.[3]