CAMP TIMELINE

Feb. 28: Small protest camp established in Wascana Park in front of Legislative Building

April 30: Police Chief Evan Bray writes to government, urging mediation not enforcement

June 8: Government formally writes Bray to ask that the Regina Police Service remove camp

June 13: Bray attends camp to urge protesters to “peacefully wrap up”

June 15: Provincial Capital Commission (PCC) and Central Services remove camp structures but allow a 48-hour reprieve for sacred fire and last teepee

June 17: Sacred fire naturally extinguished, teepee taken down, then re-erected and fire lit

June 18: PCC, Central Services and police attend. Camp cleaned out, six protesters arrested but not charged

June 21: National Indigenous Peoples’ Day, teepee erected again. Police asked to remove camp but Bray declines

June 22: Prominent Indigenous groups and First Nation chiefs speak publicly in support of camp and intention to set up teepees

June 30: Camp, then with eight teepees, holds “Trespassers Pow Wow”

July 1: Canada Day activities moved to opposite side of Wascana Lake, protesters welcome visitors

July 2: Meeting in Fort Qu’appelle between camp and government representatives

July 16: Members of Justice for Our Stolen Children camp file court action, alleging rights breeched

June 19: Provincial government files court application to force camp to vacate

Aug. 12: Fireworks shot toward camp, no injuries

Aug. 17: Encampment now at 15 teepees

Aug. 23: Court hears arguments over whether PCC bylaws violate charter, province’s demand for court order

Sept. 7: Queen’s Bench Justice Ysanne Wilkinson orders campers to “vacate and cease occupying” the site and comply with bylaws

Sept. 10: With camp down to 10 teepees, protesters announce plans to take down nine Sept. 11: Protesters hold pot luck and round dance to celebrate camp, announce sacred fire will go out the next day Sept. 12: Protesters stop feeding wood to the fire and take down final teepee