Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Phil Fontaine answers questions about aboriginal issues in a CBC.ca online interview. The questions come from the public and many of the contributors are aboriginal. Gang problems, land and title rights, hunting rights, and political correctness are all discussed.
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“We’ve got rednecks, commercial fishermen, sport fishermen, First Nations, municipal leaders, you name it — it’s a broad spectrum of people who don’t find this [drilling in the Klappan] acceptable,” said Doug Donaldson, the mayor of Hazelton, B.C. and a supporter of yesterday’s resolution at the Union of B. C. Municipalities.
What a great line!
Oh, the [...]
Mark Hume has written a substantial article in the Globe and Mail outlining the history of resource development in northwestern BC (or here via Native News North). The article comes on the heels of the Union of BC Municipalities publicly opposing coal bed gas drilling and coal mining in the Klappan (Sacred Headwaters). [...]
A student asked me recently for examples of ethnographies in which the anthropologist ‘had a bad time’. He observed that in all of the anthropological writings he has read, the anthropologists generally present themselves and their experiences positively.
I was stumped. The ethnography for the course, a survey of Canada’s first peoples, [...]
The Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group (Ladysmith, BC) is close to completing an agreement to protect sacred and archaeological sites from development. The agreement extends the limited protection afforded these kinds of sites by the BC Heritage Conservation Act. Of real concern, as noted in an article in the Victoria Times Colonist, are sites without [...]
On the heels of my less-than-well-researched post about a free topographical map site — Ed pointed out how to get scanned versions of Canadian National Topographic Series (NTS) maps in the comments — let me point you to a terrific site for uploading GPS tracks and logs and plotting those tracks against all sorts of [...]
Shell spokesperson Larry Lalonde says today in the Globe and Mail that Shell suspended its exploration of the Klappan region for coal-bed methane because of requests from the Tahltan people. The pressure of protests and other requests for consultation seems to paid off. From the paper:
“We voluntarily decided to take a pause from [...]
Intercontinental Cry draws an intriguing connection between a recent Supreme Court of BC decision and Shell’s suspension of drilling operations in the Klappan (Wii’litswx v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests); 2008 BCSC 1139). This Court ruling chastised the provincial government for not consulting the Gitanyow (north central BC; Gitksan) about logging leases on its [...]
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