Category Archives : Indigenous

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Cleaning up Coles Bay and the BC Coast: The Urgent Need for a Federal Action to Address Indigenous Shellfish Issues

Filed in: Coastal Environmental Justice Indigenous Resilient Coast Sustainable Communities Vancouver Island & Gulf Islands | by

A submission on behalf of the Pauquachin First Nation to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans; Minister of Environment and Climate Change; Minister of Health; and Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations regarding the rehabilitation of shellfish habitat on the Saanich Peninsula >

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Cleaning Up Coles Bay: The Urgent Need to Restore Traditional Shellfish Harvesting Sites of the Pauquachin First Nation

Filed in: Coastal Environmental Justice Indigenous Province-wide Resilient Coast Sustainable Communities Vancouver Island & Gulf Islands | by

A submission on behalf of the Pauquachin First Nation to the Ministers of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation; Health; Environment and Climate Change Strategy; Land, Water and Resource Stewardship; and Agriculture and Food.

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Protecting Indigenous Cultural Heritage Resources on Private Land

Filed in: Environmental Justice Government Indigenous Law reform Province-wide | by

In recent years, Indigenous Nations in British Columbia have made great progress in providing better management and protection for cultural heritage resources, such as artifacts, spiritual sites, initiation sites, transformation sites, burial grounds, cultural practice sites, ceremonial bathing sites, and >

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Indigenous Co-Governance in Protecting the Athabasca River from Tar Sands Effluent

Filed in: Environmental Justice Healthy Watersheds and Airsheds Indigenous Mining & Energy Northern Pollution Sustainable Communities | by

At the end of August, the ELC appeared before a United Nations Reactive Monitoring Mission hearing on behalf of the Mikisew Cree First Nation to present findings from a recently released ELC report on how to regulate any proposed release >

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Recognizing Indigenous Laws and Jurisdictions: Examples and Opportunities

Filed in: Environmental Justice Government Healthy Watersheds and Airsheds Indigenous Land Law reform National Sustainable Communities | by

The ELC’s work primarily serves British Columbia, but it often has much wider usefulness and impact. Such was the case that led to our recent collaborative work with the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) on an Amicus Curiae brief >