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News in Review - April 2020 Pipeline Protests: Resource Development Challenges Indigenous Rights in B.C.
In early 2020, Coastal GasLink started work on a 670-kilometre, multi-billion dollar pipeline project designed to move natural gas from the B.C Interior to the West Coast. That pipeline goes through the traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en people. The company claimed it had authority from both the province and 20 First Nations band councils, including five Wet'suwet'en Nation band councils. ...
- 2020
- 00:15:33
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- Added on: 05/06/2020
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CBC News Indigenous youth talk to press in front of B.C. Legislature (February 26, 2020) Must-See
Indigenous youth gathered on the steps of the B.C. Legislature repeat a series of demands, including calls for RCMP to leave Wet'suwet'en territory and for Coastal GasLink construction to end. They say they will continue to hold the space in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs at least until those calls are met. Among speakers are: Ta’Kaiya Blaney (Tla'Amin First Nation); Gina Mowat ...
- 2020
- 00:36:14
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- Added on: 03/06/2020
The National Historic First Nations land claim ruling
The Supreme Court has granted title to more than 1,700 square kilometres of land in B.C. to the Tsilhqot'in First Nation.
- 2014
- 00:04:02
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- Added on: 10/10/2018
News in Review - January 2015 First Nations Land Disputes
Since Europeans first arrived in Canada, non-Natives have laid claim to lands that were once under the control of the Native population. Increasingly, First Nations people are asking for their land rights to be honoured. Here are two very different cases where a land dispute could leave someone in financial ruin.
- 2015
- 00:17:46
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- Added on: 01/21/2015
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The Current This Land is My Land: Nisga'a First Nation Moves to Privatize Land
As part of The Current's Project Money, Laura Lynch looks at a plan some are excited to begin, and others want to stop before it starts. Fifteen years after signing an historic and financially empowering land deal with the federal and provincial governments, the Nisga'a First Nation is among the first Aboriginal groups to approve ownership of private property.
- 2013
- 00:22:51
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- Added on: 08/08/2014
