Canadian Rail Blockades Highlight Grievances of Indigenous Groups

TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY, Ontario—A smaller cluster of flags and windswept tents sits in the vicinity of railroad tracks east of Toronto, in which protesters are preventing trains from passing by means of a critical business corridor, threatening Canada’s already fragile economic climate.

Activists from the Mohawk group right here say their encampment was established up to clearly show aid for a group of indigenous leaders on the other side of the place, in British Columbia, who are hoping to halt building of a purely natural-gasoline pipeline. The makeshift blockade, which…