The Vancouver Sun reports today on aboriginal branding for the 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Olypmics. Native communities, not surprisingly, are turning to multimedia tools. There is a Facebook campaign and, at the website of the “four host first nations” ringtones and wallpaper are available. Says executive director Tewanee Joseph, of the Four Host First Nations: “Four is [...]
Citing a desire to avoid the “parallel society” concept created by the current treaty process in British Columbia, the Office of the Gitksan Chiefs (Hazelton, BC; Skeena River) is promoting a new governance model in its continuing treaty negotiations with British Columbia and Canada. Two weeks ago, the Gitksan took out half page ads in [...]
Update (July 28 2008): Citing an indication that no new logging roads would be built before the fall, environmentalists have postponed further action in Hesquaiht Point Creek old-growth forest (Clayoquot Sound). They have also agreed to talks with local First Nations leaders. Local First Nations hold the licenses to log areas of Clayoquot Sound that [...]
This is a really cool story about the return of sockeye salmon to the Coquitlam River, just east of Metro Vancouver. It involves the efforts of the Kwikwetlem First Nation to restore the salmon run disrupted in 1903 by the building of a dam. Also: Salmon return after century-long absence (Vancouver Province) Sphere: Related Content
Somehow I missed this a week ago … The Tsawwassen Treaty was passed in the House of Commons at the end of June.
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