Sentences with phrase «traditional territory»

The recognition and establishment of self - governing Indigenous bands on traditional territories has changed the face of Canadian territory.

Many of our kayak tours take place within traditional territories of many different BC First Nations.

The Ktunaxa are a First Nation whose traditional territories include an area in British Columbia that they call Qat» muk.

Also known as the Vancouver Island Treaties, First Nations exchanged approximately 930 km2 of traditional territory for clothing, cash and other goods.

This episode of GroundWire was produced at Kootenay Co-op Radio, a co-operative community radio station which broadcasts on Sinixt traditional territory.

custodianship over traditional territories (to own, control and manage our ancestral lands and territories, waters and other resources)

Leaders in the Federation of Canada need to set aside times over the next few years and sit down with AFN Chiefs and Elders to discuss a transfer of Jurisdiction of our peoples traditional territories across the Country and give them back their rightful place in making decisions about what goes on in these territories.

- The Tsleil - Waututh Nation — whose traditional territory includes Vancouver and Burnaby — will be challenging the National Energy Board regulatory process in the Federal Court of Canada.

PG and Area AHIC unveiled new art piece and welcome to Lheidli T'enneh Traditional Territory at UHNBC

On November 3, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that, yet another part of a First Nation's claimed traditional territory could be subject to permanent development because the government had conducted «reasonable consultation».

Basically, as soon as it receives a project proposal within the Haisla traditional territories, the province shares it with the band and Haisla representatives are included in the discussions to follow.

The Tsleil - Waututh Nation, whose traditional territory surrounds the Burrard Inlet at the pipeline's endpoint, has already mounted two legal challenges of the National Energy Board's review of the pipeline, and further challenges by First Nations are likely to come.

The strategy is aimed at cultivating stronger relations with China and responding to growing commercial interest from Asia to British Columbia's natural resources sector, the respective traditional territories of First Nations.

HEILTSUK TRADITIONAL TERRITORY, British Columbia — Diminishing wild salmon runs along British Columbia's central coast have raised concerns in the past several years about the fate of the region's grizzly bears.

Researchers are checking in this summer at 72 baited hair - snagging stations located across 5,000 square kilometers of remote temperate rain forest in Heiltsuk Traditional Territory, British Columbia

But it's clear that galleries are moving into their territory by exploring overlooked backwaters of art history as well as the more traditional territory of discovering new talents.

The case is a about a proposed development in an area that the Ktunaxa call Qat» muk, located in the Jumbo Valley, 55 kilometres west of Invermere, BC, in Ktunaxa traditional territory.

Andrea grew up in the unceded traditional territories of the Squamish, Tsleil - Waututh, and Musqueam First Nations, and lives in the Strathcona neighborhood with her husband and two young daughters.

In addition, Métis and Non-Status Indians live across Canada, with connections to various traditional territories.

For example, Algonquin traditional territory in the Ottawa River watershed of Ontario was excluded on maps after the drawing of the boundary line between Upper and Lower Canada in 1791.

Since Europeans began mapping traditional territories, there have been disputes between Indigenous peoples and provincial and federal governments over the boundaries of traditional lands, and the rights to own, govern and use resources on those lands.

However, First Nations have traditional territories beyond reserves.

This week GroundWire is produced at CILU FM, on Fort William First Nation's Annishinabe Traditional Territory, part of the Robinson - Superior Treaty in Thunder Bay Ontario.

Increased European settlement in Ditidaht traditional territories meant significant changes to the daily life of the Ditidaht.

Discussions are underway between the federal government and the governments of Ontario and Québec (the provinces Akwesanse traditional territory straddles) to draft a framework for recognizing the Akwesasne legal system.

Victoria lawyer Robert Janes, counsel for the bands, told an Ottawa press conference earlier this year the lake at Frog Lake would no longer be protected, nor would many of «the vast number of navigable waterways» in Mikisew traditional territory making them vulnerable to being dug up for oil sands development.

«As long as the sun shines, the rivers flow and the grass grows»: Vulnerability, adaptation and environmental change in Deninu Kue traditional territory, Northwest Territories.

The Nuu - chah - nulth have been actively involved in the protection and promotion of their rights to hunt and fish on traditional territories.

This is traditional territory for the national governing party, but its hold at local government level has dwindled elsewhere.

The art piece, created by local Metis artist Carla Joseph, acknowledges Lheidli T'enneh traditional territory and welcomes Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to the site.

Stewart is known as a significant critic of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which was federally approved in 2016 but faces significant opposition from cities like Burnaby and Vancouver, as well as some key First Nations whose traditional territory the expansion would affect.

The corporation holds shares in Huakan International Mining Co., the Vancouver - based mining firm acquired by Huakan from China in 2010 that is extracting gold from a mine located within the band's traditional territory.

That ruling compelled governments to consult and at times compensate First Nations with unresolved claims for new developments in their traditional territories.

Northern Gateway's proposed routes includes large areas of native's traditional territories that were never purchased by or ceded to the Crown — one of six factors that could still impede Enbridge's project.

The pipeline would pass through natives» traditional territories that were never ceded to the Crown by treaty.

One of his proudest moments as a Trustee was when a motion he introduced passed that acknowledged the traditional territories before the national anthem was to be sung at all board related events and schools.

The project is located in the traditional territory of the Fort MacKay First Nation (FMFN), and on land to which the FMFN holds treaty rights and aboriginal rights.

The nomadic Tagaeri - Taromenane are now virtually surrounded with active or planned oil drilling on all sides of their traditional territory, threatening their very existence.

We acknowledge that Hollyhock sits on the traditional territories of the Klahoose, Tla'amin, and Homalco Nations.

I'd like to acknowledge that we're on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit.

It's doing this in its traditional territory.

Editor's note: This post is part of a four - part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American, reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia.

Editor's note: This slide show is part of a four - part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American, reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia.

«The community was very interested in what was happening to the wetlands and to the caribou» and in other changes occurring in their traditional territory, Hik says.

The challenging part: Although it takes only basic canoeing and hiking smarts to traverse the ivory - billed woodpecker's traditional territory — the old woods and swamps of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina — the odds are remote that you will actually see this lauded bird.

Not a few were expelled from their traditional territories to make room for highways, dams and cattle ranches.