KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) -- A woman who took part in a native roadblock at the Sun Peaks ski resort was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in jail.
Nicole Manuel also was put on probation for 12 months.
Provincial court Judge Eugene Sather said although Manuel is an articulate and intelligent woman pursuing her people's interests, what she did was also criminal.
Nicole's mother Beverly Manuel received a suspended sentence and one year's probation.
The judge gave Miranda Dyck a six-month conditional term with one year's probation.
Several natives were charged with mischief and intimidation after setting up roadblocks to protest expansion and development at Sun Peaks resort in August 2001.
The natives claimed the expansion is taking place on aboriginal land.
Sather granted a stay of the sentences pending an appeal to be heard next March.
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