The Province of British Columbia has issued a press release confirming that the Lheidli T’enneh Treaty has been initialed. (Follow this link for Opinion250.com’s report from Prince George. It includes photographs of the signing.) This is a significant difference from the hand-shake agreement with the Tsawwassen First Nation where a hand-shake was said to have [...]
Doug Struck at the Washington Post writes another story this week about climate and culture change in the Canadian arctic. (Previous story here about a new arctic park; my blog post here.) Struck’s current story describes the decreasing feasibility of sustenance hunting. Peter Taptuna, the manager of the local hunting association, is quoted. His impressions [...]
A busy treaty-related weekend continues in British Columbia. A new Agreement-in-Principle (AIP) has been announced between Canada, BC, and the In-SHUCK-ch (Fraser Valley). Details of the AIP are here (scroll down for PDF files). Again … more to come. UPDATE Here is the press release from the BC Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation. Sphere: [...]
Saturday, October 28, 2006
The BC Treaty Process is showing mixed results this weekend, according to the Globe and Mail. On the one hand, the Lheidli T’enneh (Prince George; Athapaskan) are poised to sign their treaty with BC and Canada tomorrow. On the other, forty First Nations have decided that their treaty negotiations have reached impasses. They have joined [...]
I have not paid much attention to the Metis hunting rights case in Manitoba. Perhaps I should start doing so, given the testimony about hunting and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) reported in the Brandon Sun (subscription required). Recent testimony describes Metis people hunting for subsistence and not for trophies. Maps of hunting and food collection [...]
The small Dene community of Lutsel K’e (Northwest Territories) has joined with the government of Canada to create an enormous park, reports CBC.ca (or here). The park will cover about 30,000 square kilometres, or, be about four times the size of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. The Lutsel K’e turned down a chance to [...]
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
In a (delayed) followup to my post about Tsimshian artifacts on the auction block, it appears that the Dundas Collection has been purchased by David Thomson, son of former Globe and Mail chairman, the late Kenneth Thomson. The intention seems to be to display the objects at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). The Canadian [...]
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The Globe and Mail has a fascinating story of a privately owned collection of Tsimshian artifacts and art objects scheduled for auction on Thursday in New York. Dubbed the Dundas Collection of Northwest Coast American Indian Art, the story of how it came to auction — and of the efforts of museums world-wide to buy [...]
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