Canadian Rail Blockades Highlight Grievances of Indigenous Groups

TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY, Ontario—A little cluster of flags and windswept tents sits in close proximity to railroad tracks east of Toronto, wherever protesters are preventing trains from passing via a important industrial corridor, threatening Canada’s presently fragile economy.

Activists from the Mohawk neighborhood listed here say their encampment was set up to present guidance for a group of indigenous leaders on the other facet of the state, in British Columbia, who are attempting to quit construction of a purely natural-gas pipeline. The makeshift blockade, which…