Thursday, December 21, 2006
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled today in a case about aboriginal hunting and treaty rights on Vancouver Island. Two Tsartlip (Coast Salish; Southern Vancouver Island) men were convicted under the BC Wildlife Act of hunting with the aid of a light after they shot a decoy deer at night. In the ruling which overturns [...]
Monday, December 18, 2006
Cultural anthropologist Ed Labenski has started blogging. Northern Waterways combines Ed’s passions for northern Canadian anthropology, aboriginal rights, resource development, and canoeing. Ed describes his blog this way: This blog is a resource for people interested in northern culture and history … This blog brings together several of my interests: film, anthropology, canoeing, social and [...]
Monday, December 11, 2006
Williston Reservoir and Silt Originally uploaded by TFM. According to Vaughn Palmer of the Vancouver Sun , the Tsay Keh Dene and the Kwadacha (Athapaskans) of north-central British Columbia are finally going to see restitution for suffering caused by the flooding of the Williston Reservoir in the 1960s. (Williston Reservoir is North America’s largest artificially [...]
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Two treaties were initialled in BC this weekend. There are a large number of news stories related to these events. They are catalogued below. Tsawwassen Treaty* Harper Approves Treaty (Vancouver Sun) Tsawwassen’s reserve prepares to meet future (Vancouver Sun) Maa-Nulth Treaty* Island treaty worth up to $500 million (Victoria Times Colonist) Final Agreement initialled with [...]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
CBC.ca reports that the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld aboriginal rights to log on Crown land in two New Brunswick cases. The Supreme Court of Canada had previously ruled that aboriginal logging on Crown Land for commercial purposes was illegal. This judgment absolves the defendants of wrong-doing for cutting maple trees off of their [...]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Update Treaty talks rolling – Premier Gordon Campbell says 2007 has the potential to be a “breakthrough year” for B.C. in treaty negotiations (Times Colonist) Four other B.C. treaty tables are in the process of turning agreements in principle into final deals. MP: Tsawwassen treaty ‘long-term trouble’ (Vancouver Sun) “The proposed Tsawwassen treaty poses long-term [...]
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Charles R. Menzies’s edited collection Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management has been published by the University of Nebraska Press. The introduction to the book, written by Menzies and Caroline Butler, offers a very useful and usable summary of what traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is and the academic critiques of the concept. The book [...]
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