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The #YaqanNukiy #Wetland Project is Canada’s biggest #Indigenous led wetland #restoration project.

Since beyond living memory, the wetland at Yaqan Nukiy was a sprawling 7,000-hectare resource that nourished the area’s Indigenous People and wildlife from birds and bears to fish, turtles, and elk.

https://www.e-know.ca/regions/ktunaxa-nation/band-leads-517-hectare-wetland-restoration

#FirstNations #NativeBC #Kootenay #Ecological #Ecosystems #Nature #wildlife #conservation #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCInterior #stewardship #PNW

Tyler gifting Beau, at end of 2 day cultural healing event.

#Esquimalt #FirstNations #NativeBC #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Gratitude #Brotherhood

Two men are sitting at a weathered metal picnic table outdoors, exchanging a small, colorfully wrapped gift. The man on the left, with a beard and a black cap, smiles as he accepts the gift. The man on the right, wearing a cedar bark woven hat and glasses, also smiles. A body of water with islands is in the background, with yellow wildflowers growing along the grassy edge. The scene is bathed in sunlight on a clear, bright day.

Beau & Tyler, by the fire & #salmon.

#Fish #Esquimalt #FirstNation #IndigenousFood #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #NativeBC #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Seafood

Two men stand on a grassy shoreline next to a campfire with salmon roasting. The man on the left has a beard and is wearing a blue shirt and black pants. The man on the right is wearing a cedar bark woven hat and a red long sleeve shirt with a native cedar tree design. Both men have their hands raised forward, palms facing outward. Over the fire are sticks propped up like a teepee, with salmon skewered and roasting. In the background is a blue sky with fluffy white clouds and a glimpse of the ocean.

The butterflied wild salmon are now cooking by the fire ❤️🙏

#Fish #Esquimalt #FirstNation #IndigenousFood #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #NativeBC #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Seafood #salmon

On a sunny day, several salmon are roasting over an open campfire on a grassy shoreline, with a view of the ocean in the background. The fish are skewered and propped up on an A-frame structure made of roughly hewn branches. Two people are visible: one walking away from the camera wearing dark clothes, and another toward the right, wearing a red shirt and woven cedar bark hat, near a picnic table set with food and drinks. The background includes a sunny expanse of water, a green treed island, and a clear blue sky. There is a pile of rocks on the left of the frame.

Learn more about #ChiefMaquinna.

This is a collection of words, photos and video clips for Hyas Tyee #Nuuchahnulth - Chief Maquinna. A greatly respected & important Chief of the Nuuchahnulth #Haida People, of the Haida Gwaii Islands, in #BritishColumbia #Canada.

Chief Maquinna (also transliterated: Muquinna, Macuina, Maquilla) was the Chief of the Nuuchahnulth People of #NootkaSound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s, on the #PacificNorthwest Coast.

British explorer #CaptainCook went looking (like so many #Europeans before and after him)or the Northwest Passage. He ran headlong into a thriving trade and business culture on the west coast, overseen by young Nuu-chah-nulth, Chief Maquinna.

The two men's encounter would forever change trans-Pacific trade and teach the European empire a lesson in diplomacy, they've managed to forget, many times over.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkf8fIcyhyc

#BCFirstNations #ColonialBC #ColonialCanada #NativeChiefs #IndigenousChief #NativeBC #FirstPeoples #Maquinna #VancouverIsland #Nootka #VanIsle #PNW #Cascadia #ColonialResistance #BChistory #geopolitics #BCIndigenousHistory #CanadianHistory #PNWHistory #FirstNations #colonialism #BrokenTrust #TruthBeforeReconciliation #Landback #educational #HonourTheTreaties #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HistoryAndPolitics #JusticeForIndigenous

Tsahaukuse, George Quocksister Jr. is a #HereditaryChief of the #Laichkwiltach Nation and the son of Elizabeth and George Quocksister. He is a passionate advocate for the protection of #WildSalmon as a crucial part of his culture and the food security of his people, and is working to ban the practice of #SalmonFarming on the west coast. He lives in Campbell River, BC.

This is from our 2020 #DiscoveryIslands flotilla protest & restocking patrol with George & 2 other BC Indigenous Chiefs(Darren Blaney & Bill Wilson) from North Island regions.

The fight to get fish farms out of BC waters started in the late 80s & continues.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/video-appears-to-show-disfigured-farmed-salmon-1.4261637

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #FishFarmsOut #DirectAction #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #DemandMPAs #BCpoli #CDNpoli #OceanGuardians #SalmonPeople #KeystoneSpecies #ecology #WildlifeConservation #ProtectEcosystems #environmental

George holding up a bright neon sign that reads:

When the salmon return to rivers to spawn the bears, eagles, lots of critters bring the carcass into forests to feed on. This creates a nitrogen cycle which makes the forest grow. Which creates the air we breathe. Without the salmon Earth will die. There is a lot of science proof out there that says just that.

Homalco Chief Darren Blaney & George Quocksister Jr, on fishing boat, facing the ocean & islands, wearing their Wild Salmon forever long-sleeved shirts. Darren in red, holding a wood salmon sign that reads, Test Me For Piscine Reovirus. George in black, wearing his cedar weaved hereditary Chief hat with beaded brim & eagle feather & holding a wooden salmon sign.

With #Namgis #FirstNation crew at 2022 #WildSalmon #flotilla #protest in #Tofino. This flotilla was led by Namgis Chief, Ernest Alfred - in the middle of photo.

Our boat captain is on far right, Willie Mitchell, Indigenous former #NHL player. I was invited to join Namgis leaders boat for this flotilla.

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #FishFarmsOut #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #DemandMPAs #BCpoli #CDNpoli #OceanGuardians #monochrome

Black and white photo.
Group on boat wearing Indigenous ceremony attire & holding up fish farms out protest signs

Captain Chickite, of #WeWaiKai First Nation, and wife, were kind enough to charter the flotilla trip for us, from #CampbellRiver through the Discovery Islands.

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #Indigenous #VanIsle #Kwakwa̱ka̱wakw #Kwakiutl #CapeMudge

George Glocksister Jr, Bill Wilson, Darren Blaney & Captain Chickite. On the Chickite family's commercial fishing boat - The Marinet.

Leading the fish farms out of BC waters flotilla:
#Laichwiltach hereditary Chief Tsahaukuse (George Quocksister Jr.).
https://www.nationalobserver.com/podcast/salmon-people/occupation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laich-kwil-tach

Chiefs who came to support:
#Homalco Hereditary & Council Chief Darren Blaney (Married to MP Rachel Blaney).
https://www.homalco.com/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-landslide-science-tsunami-earthquake-1.6075933

Bill Wilson(Kwak'wala name, Puglaas) hereditary Chief of the #Musgamgw #Tsawataineuk & part of Laich-kwil-tach, which are part of the #Kwagiulth & #Kwakwakawakw First Peoples. Married to 2nd wife, Bev Sellars, a Chief of the #Xatsull First Nation. Father of Jody Wilson-Raybould, lawyer & former MP. Bill was the first Indigenous BC Chief to travel to Ottawa to meet Prime Minister Trudeau (Pierre) to negotiate & draft 1st & only amendment to Canada's constitution in 1982(Section 35).
He helped found BC First Nations Congress, which led to creation of BC Treaty Commission (signed by Wilson, Harcourt & Mulroney).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wilson_(chief)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakw

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsawataineuk_First_Nation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jody-wilson-raybould-reconciling-history-1.7364336

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #IndigenousSovereignty #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCTreatyCommission #BrokenPromises #BrokenTreaties #IndigenousRights #DemandMPAs

#BritishColumbia #FirstNations are initiating an #emergency #salmon #TaskForce to investigate the impact on the #sockeye salmon due to last week’s #Chilcotin River #landslide.

“Chilcotin Rivers are kind of our identity,” Nits’ilʔin (Chief) Francis Laceese, Tl’esqox said at a press conference on Tuesday.

“Same with the salmon, you know, that’s basically who we are. That’s our biggest food source.”

#Tŝilhqotin National Government (TNG) is calling on all levels of government, downstream First Nations, the #PacificSalmonCommission, and other nations and states, especially #Alaskan #fisheries, to take all precautionary measures possible to conserve Tŝilhqot’in territory-bound salmon, and to immediately cease from fisheries that may impact these stocks, until the impacts from the landslide and breach are fully understood.

A massive landslide came down last Wednesday, damming the Chilcotin River, which leads into the #FraserRiver

https://globalnews.ca/news/10683723/b-c-landslide-first-nation-emergency-salmon-task-force/

#Indigenous #NativeBC #BCpoli #CDNpoli #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #NaturalDisasters #ThisIsNotFine #WildSalmonAlliance #WildFirst #NatureFirst #SaveWildSalmon #wildlife #environmental #ecological #ecosystems #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BCsalmon

#Indigenous #MMIWG2S #ActivistArt #painting by fellow #Landback activist friend.

#VancouverIsland #ArtThatSpeaks #Activism #JusticeMatters #FirstNations #NativeBC #art #solidarity #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #HumanRights #SocialJustice #SystematicRacism #FightForJustice

A painting of an Indigenous woman with red handprint on her face, wearing a red dress. All around her red & black dresses, representing the missing & murdered.

In March, a small #nonprofit in #BritishColumbia cut 10 cheques worth approximately $5,500 each & hand delivered them to as many #FirstNations on southern #VancouverIsland. The money, collected in the second half of 2023, is the first annual installment of #voluntary #rents paid by residents & business owners who live & work on the First Nations’ homelands.

The #SouthIslandReciprocityTrust is the brainchild of Craig Candler.

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-voluntary-rent-first-nations

#Indigenous #Reconciliation #NativeBC #PNW

One of two #BandCouncillors representing #Witat - also known as Fort Babine, in #BritishColumbia say #amalgamation is making a bad #housing situation worse.

#FortBabine #Elder Fred William says a federal #IndianAgent amalgamated the communities in 1957.

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/a-small-first-nation-with-a-big-housing-problem-is-being-ignored-two-band-councillors-say/

#IndianAct #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #NativeBC #Indigenous #ReserveHousing #HumanRights #Health #DangerousHousing #NativeBandCouncil

#NativeBC

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