Occupation chronology

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October 2005-Confederacy Council "aware" of plans for a "peaceful occupation."

November 2005-Confederacy Council gives support for occupation.

Feb. 28-Occupiers take over 40-hectare (100-acre) development known as Douglas Creek Estates in Caledonia. Land has been cleared and construction by Henco Industries on 10 show homes is nearing completion.

April 16- At joint meeting of band council and Confederacy council, band council votes to let the Confederacy council "take the lead" on the Douglas Creek Estates negotiations.

April 18- Confederacy Chief Allen McNaughton issues a press release saying the talks have broken down.

April 20- Early morning police raid on occupation site results in 16 arrests. In response to the police raid, blockades of Argyle St., a rail line and the highway bypass around Caledonia are erected.

April 21-Three-party agreement signed by representatives of Haudenosaunee/Six Nations, Canada and Ontario to look into resolution of the impasse.

May 1- Former Ontario premier David Peterson appointed by province to negotiate end of blockades.

May 3-Former External Affairs minister Barbara McDougall appointed federal negotiator. "McDougall has the mandate to work with provincial, municipal and Six Nations representatives to develop a detailed work plan that will provide for effective ways to address and resolve outstanding issues related to land claims and governance," the department of Indian Affairs release states.

May 3-Ontario appoints former federal Indian Affairs minister Jane Stewart as "special representative to Caledonia impasse." Her mandate, according to a statement issued by Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Ramsay, is "to look at ways of mitigating the longer-term issues that have led to the situation in Caledonia."

May 16-Protestors voluntarily clear one lane of the Argyle St. blockade as a sign of good faith.

As of Windspeaker press deadline-Talks continue.