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    BC reconciliation with Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance


    FOUNDATION FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT




    Stewardship
    The Southern Dãkelh Nation Alliance (the SDNA) First Nations have a holistic perspective. We believe the health and integrity of the land is inextricably linked to our own health and well-being. Our Nations have expressed concerns about the state of the wilderness (i.e., native ecosystems) due to existing cumulative effects coupled with the hundreds of applications for new human disturbance (e.g., development, land use change, resource extraction) each year within their Territory. We, the people of the Southern Dãkelh Nation Alliance have never ceded our Rights and claimed title to our Territory land and natural resources. Nevertheless, they have not had just decision-making power to determine how our Territory land and natural resources are used or managed.


    As such, we, the SDNA have the vision that protecting and sustainably managing ecosystems within their Territory is necessary. The SDNA plan to achieve this through various means including the development of a Territory Land Stewardship Plan (the Plan), which will be used to inform both the referral process, and future government-to-government negotiations about land and natural resources. The Plan will be a living document that is revised each year as new information becomes available to inform it. The Plan will provide the SDNA’s vision, goals, objectives and policies that are premised on our constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights and our claimed title (the Rights), and concerns, interests and perspectives.






    Aug. 3, 2018


    B.C. on path to reconciliation with Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance


    "We are all in one canoe - we can either paddle together or sink together. This agreement commits us to working together, deepening our partnership and relationship for the benefit of our youth, our elders and our communities." - Chief Stuart Alec, Nazko First Nation

    WILLIAMS LAKE - British Columbia and the Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance have signed a government-to-government agreement that establishes a new relationship based on respect and recognition of rights.


    The Foundation Framework Agreement, or Hubulhsooninats'Uhoot'alh - Dakelh for "together we will fix it" - lays out a foundation for building comprehensive reconciliation and a positive government-to-government relationship between British Columbia and the First Nations of the Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance, based in the Cariboo.


    The agreement commits B.C. and the Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance to work on collaborative decision-making over land and resource management, increasing First Nations economic development and participation in the forest economy, improving consultation on resource development, and developing culture and wellness priorities.


    Both the provincial and federal governments are working toward building strong relationships and advancing reconciliation with the Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance.


    This agreement with the Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance reflects B.C.'s interest in building relationships with Indigenous peoples based on respect and recognition of rights, as guided by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action and case law.


    Quotes:


    Scott Fraser, Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation - "Our partnership with the Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance will promote trust-building and guide us in finding new ways of working, learning and collaborating together. British Columbia is committed to building an enduring partnership with the Southern Dakelh Nations, one that upholds their inherent rights and opens up new opportunities for their communities."


    Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development - "This Foundation Framework Agreement provides an important venue for collaborative work on a number of topics of mutual interest, including wildfire prevention and response, timber supply review, and moose and caribou management."


    Chief Liliane Squinas, Lhoosk'uz Dené Nation - "We are committed to working together as a Nation and as partners. We are also committed to working with our neighbours and relatives beyond our territories in a good and healthy way."


    Chief Clifford Lebrun, Lhtako Dené Nation - "We know that the next step in this work will be harder than the work behind us, but we are responsible as leaders to bring about real change - we will not waver from this responsibility and will remain committed to ensuring that the good words from your government turn out to be more than just words."


    Chief Stuart Alec, Nazko First Nation - "We are all in one canoe - we can either paddle together or sink together. This agreement commits us to working together, deepening our partnership and relationship for the benefit of our youth, our elders and our communities."


    Chief Betty Cahoose, Ulkatcho Nation - "This agreement represents only the beginning. Tomorrow, our work as partners begins to bring tangible benefits to our communities."


    Quick Facts:


    * Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance represents Lhoosk'uz Dené Nation, Lhtako Dené Nation, Nazko First Nation and Ulkatcho Nation, all based in the Cariboo.


    * The agreement was signed by:
    * Ministers Scott Fraser and Doug Donaldson, on behalf of the Province


    * Chief Liliane Squinas, Lhoosk'uz Dené Nation


    * Chief Clifford Lebrun, Lhtako Dené Nation


    * Chief Stuart Alec, Nazko First Nation


    * Chief Betty Cahoose, Ulkatcho Nation

    Last edited by Sirloin; 08-23-2018 at 08:19 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 338win mag View Post
    FN would still be allowed to hunt, so not all....Stewart Phillip said we need this park due to global warming.
    I have heard that too, but this was an MP, sitting beside the environment minister - at a closed meeting - saying that there would be no hunting, and was not corrected by anyone - including a first nations representative.

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    Some of this might sound like just nice gestures for the schools to make....but when you look into who is pushing "decolonize" ideology, what it really means, what they actually want compared to the public face of they put on....you should be worried, and pissed.

    The Marxists and activist educators are using these indigenous issues as the thin edge of the wedge against western civilization and capitalism.

    How post-secondary schools are working to include indigenous knowledge in programs

    https://globalnews.ca/news/4413282/how-post-secondary-schools-are-working-to-include-indigenous-knowledge-in-programs-address-barriers/


    This summer, as students prepared to go back to school, some post-secondary institutions did preparing of their own to make changes that they say address a legacy of colonialism and respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report.

    The report, released in 2015, contained a list of calls to action, one of which was a demand that universities and colleges include Indigenous knowledge into their programs and address barriers to Indigenous students’ access to education.


    Since then, institutions across Canada have created roles to lead those initiatives on campus, along with hiring Indigenous educators and creating programs geared to Indigenous knowledge and culture.






    Olson Crow, an Indigenous student at Toronto’s Ryerson University, said “indigenization” is about “incorporating Indigenous ways of knowledge and having Indigenous community members come into the space.”


    This summer was pivotal at the university, which is named after Egerton Ryerson, a pioneer of public education who is also widely believed to have helped shape Canada’s residential school policy. After Indigenous students on campus lobbied the university for years to remove the statue of Egerton, the school instead installed a plaque in July beside the statue that addressed Egerton’s role in “cultural genocide.”


    Crow had met with the university’s administration on multiple occasions last school year to discuss the removal of the statue. While he calls the plaque “a great step to raising awareness,” he said he will not stop demanding the statue’s removal. “I don’t think the plaque is a solution and I don’t think it’s an alternative to having the statue removed,” he said.


    Ryerson public affairs said the university is open to continuing discussions with students on the statue, but at this time “no decisions have been made.”






    This summer, Ryerson launched the Yellowhead Institute, calling it Canada’s first think tank focused on analysis of policy and law that affects First Nation communities.


    Ryerson has also started the process of “decolonizing” their library.


    The university’s chief librarian, Carol Shepstone, said while she thinks it’s important for all universities to address colonialism, there is “added weight to this with the Ryerson name.”


    “It’s about changing the way we describe and think about how we organize information. A lot of the terms used in libraries are very colonial, very inappropriate and not reflective of traditional appropriate names,” said Shepstone.


    For example, Indigenous history is sometimes classified under the category “Indians of North America” or the word “Indian” is used in some Canadian libraries.




    Breaking away from these terms has proven quite difficult in large library systems as there are thousands of headings and subheadings that cannot be changed in an instant with available technology, said Christine Bone, cataloguing librarian at the University of Manitoba, whose research focuses on Indigenous subject headings.


    Bone said she is currently working on a project with the Association for Manitoba Archives to find solutions to this issue. She said the project can hopefully be used as a template for other libraries and archives across Canada.


    “What we’re doing is adding to the larger work that will benefit everyone,” said Bone, adding that she has already started implementing some minor solutions at the University of Manitoba including adding an “Indigenous Peoples” subject heading to the appropriate catalogue records.


    The University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta said they are also in the early stages of changing headings of Indigenous works and history in their library.


    New initiatives to increase access to Indigenous knowledge have also been in the works at other post-secondary institutions across Canada.






    At Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, the institution said it has implemented various recommendations that were included in a 2014 report that was created after Loretta Saunders, a 26-year-old Inuk student at the university, was killed.


    The university said that since then, they have hired an Indigenous student adviser, created new academic programming dedicated to Indigenous history, and in early August, the Mi’kmaq Grand Council flag was raised permanently on the university’s campus.


    At the University of British Columbia, this will be the first school year that the university’s new Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre will be utilized after it opened in April 2018. The centre’s mandate is to be accessible for not only university students and faculty, but anyone who wants to use the centre’s open-source libraries and archives, said the centre’s director, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond.


    “I want people to learn about the history of the residential schools, but this isn’t something you would see in a typical museum space. There is going to be a really active piece to this,” said Turpel-Lafond, who is Cree. She said the dialogue aspect of the centre would be to engage community members in discussion and wouldn’t be a traditional talk where only one person is speaking.


    An exchange program will launch this school year with Indigenous students from Wilfrid Laurier University and Syracuse University in New York State. Three students from each university will swap places while working together to create Indigenous curriculum material.






    Jean Becker, senior adviser of Indigenous initiatives at the university, said there can be barriers for Indigenous students applying to exchange programs, and she hopes this program will change that.


    “We find that our students don’t really even consider doing exchanges,” said Becker. “It’s a lot of money. And for our Indigenous students just coming to the university, it’s such a huge transition.”


    At McGill University, the school has partnered with the Mohawk community of Kahnawake to offer a Bachelor of Education program on the Kahnawake reserve, which is near Montreal.


    This was also the first summer that a program was held at the University of Regina to enhance Indigenous undergraduate students’ writing and research skills to encourage them to pursue graduate studies. The Indigenous Summer Research Institute awarded $3,000 to each student to participate, which included 10 Indigenous students and nine non-Indigenous students.






    The Canadian Federation of Students, the country’s largest student advocacy group, will also be working to increase Indigenous knowledge in post-secondary education.


    Shanese Steele, national chairperson for the organization’s National Circle of First Nations, Metis and Inuit Students, said they will be officially launching a campaign in the fall that will demand universities create Indigenous language programs.


    Steele said she hopes institutions will do more to address services for Indigenous students. She said while hiring Indigenous educators and creating Indigenous leadership roles is important, she hopes student services, such as counselling, academic advertising and food banks geared towards Indigenous students will also be prioritized.


    “Universities and colleges are inherently colonial. They’re inherently anti-Indigenous,” she said, adding that she stresses that universities continue to use the word “indigenize” and not “decolonize.”


    “It’s hard to decolonize a space that’s rooted in that. It’s more that just hiring people into these positions,” she said.

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    Re: NStQ First Nations, B.C., Canada advance to final treaty negotiations

    Will it happen here??

    Maybe some day...


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EThwj4NtnvU

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    No "maybe" about it. The ball is rolling folks.

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    The only thing stopping it is first nations make up approximately 4% of the population. The other 96% (regardless of ancestry or race) would never stand for it. There are a great many farmers and ranchers in this country where "white guilt" just won't work
    I don't shoot innocent animals... Just the ones that look guilty!

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    Commercial fishing with a seine boat in Kamloops Lake
    VIDEO

    https://www.facebook.com/mike.pitten...6759203434993/









    Interesting, I recognize this name and twitter account from earlier this year with the morel harvest shake down. "This is decolonization in action"








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    It begins.... They are changing the rules and setting the pieces in place.

    http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showth...ns-streamlined

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    Re: NStQ First Nations, B.C., Canada advance to final treaty negotiations

    So we are now chunking B.C up into mini provinces?

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    Re: NStQ First Nations, B.C., Canada advance to final treaty negotiations

    well all is going to be lost for sure as oh Canada

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