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7月9日 Views differ on aboriginal fishing verdictBy Jennifer Feinberg - Chilliwack Progress - July 03, 2008
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  The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a 24-hour commercial fishery for three Sto:lo bands on the Fraser River. Progress File The inherent “disadvantage” of First Nations was recognized in a Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of a 24-hour commercial fishery for three Sto:lo bands on the Fraser River. It was a “well-seasoned” ruling, and one that “brings down the curtain on the squabble launched by fishermen who claimed their equality rights under the Charter were being violated,” said Grand Chief Doug Kelly of the Sto:lo Tribal Council. http://www.bclocalnews.com/fraser_valley/theprogress/news/22909689.html
B.C. Mounties cleared in native reserve pepper-spraying
Linda Nguyen, Canwest News Service Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 OTTAWA - The RCMP officer who pepper-sprayed a group of aboriginals, including a seventh-month-old baby, celebrating a soccer game win on the Sechelt, B.C., reserve last July has been cleared of wrongdoing, an internal RCMP investigation has concluded. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=457cf1dd-d3eb-4287-8580-a14bdef9d98b Book shares native student insights
First nations children don't like to show off by answering their teacher's questions, research shows Carla Wintersgill, Prince Rupert Daily News Published: Saturday, June 28, 2008 PRINCE RUPERT - First nations students are dramatically different learners than their non-native peers, and that difference is apparent from as young as six, a researcher from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania has found. Aboriginal children least supported in Canada: reportNeed for medical care among aboriginal children higher than for other children Kerry Benjoe, Leader-Post Published: Thursday, June 26, 2008 REGINA -- A new report by the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) says the most disadvantaged group in Canada is aboriginal children.
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=06c2e548-443b-41de-bc13-6b21850b5599 American aboriginals diversified world's diet
Doug Cuthand, The StarPhoenix Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 So far its gone by all but unnoticed and unheralded, but 2008 has been declared by the United Nations as the year of the potato.
That's right. This is the year that the UN has designated to heap praise on the lowly tuber.
It's the world's No. 1 non-grain crop and last year production reached a record 320 million tonnes worldwide.
Point appointed chairPaul J. Henderson, The Times Published: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 No one is quite ready for a group hug, but a glimmer of hope on the reconciliation front has appeared among the long conflicting Sto:lo Nation and Sto:lo Tribal Council (STC) in the area of child and family services.
In December, Xyolhemeylh Child and Family Services Society (supported by the Sto:lo Nation) and the Fraser Salish Child and Family Services (representing the STC, local Métis, United Native Nations Fraser Valley, Chehalis First Nation and the In-SHUCK-ch) agreed to create a new board of directors to work on the eventual creation of a new aboriginal-led child and family services program. Canada court upholds native Indian-only fishingFri Jun 27, 2008 3:43pm EDT
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada's highest court allowed a native Indian-only fisheries on Friday on a key Pacific coast salmon river, rejecting a complaint the policy fostered racial discrimination. The Supreme Court said the government was allowed to pursue an affirmative action goal by giving members of three Indian bands a special license to fish on the Fraser River near Vancouver before the start of the regular fishing season. http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCAN2746265420080627 Status about more than cashMARCIA ANDERSON
June 25, 2008
Winnipeg -- Margaret Wente wrote that Bill C-31 allowed those who married off-reserve to regain their status and that status became "worth having" after the Tsawwassen First Nation struck a profitable deal (Tsawwassen Treaty Takedown - June 21). The reality of the Indian Act and Bill C-31 was that prior to it being passed, first nations women lost their first nations status if they married someone not registered as an Indian under the Indian Act.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080625.COLETTS25-8/TPStory/Comment Aboriginals await action after apology
By BOB WEBER The Canadian Press Sun. Jun 29 - 4:31 AM
Mi’kmaq Grand Chief Ben Sylliboy in 2007. (Eric Wynne / Staff)
One apology, no matter how heartfelt, doesn’t erase a century of estrangement.
Even if most aboriginal people believe the federal government is sincerely sorry about residential schools, that doesn’t mean they’ll be waving flags and singing O Canada on Tuesday with reborn patriotism.
Many say it will take time and meaningful action before they see Canada Day fireworks as anything more than pretty lights that fade away almost as quickly as they burn.
7月8日 New aboriginal child welfare agency coming
By Robert Freeman - Chilliwack Progress - July 02, 2008
A new aboriginal child welfare agency is expected to be announced in September, ending a longstanding dispute over the delivery of family and child protection services in the Fraser Valley.
“Our primary goal is to create a society that will assume the responsibility (for service delivery),” Gwen Point, independent chairperson of an interim board set up last year to bring together the Xyolhemeylh Child and Family Services Society and the Fraser Salish Child & Family Services Society, said Monday.
Point said the new board will represent Sto:lo communities in the Sto:lo Nation, the Sto:lo Tribal Council, plus the In-SHUCK-ch First Nation, Chehalis First Nation, Metis and urban aboriginals in the Fraser Valley region.
“We’re very happy,” said Tyrone McNeil, vice-president of the tribal council. Child welfare services was one of the main reasons the eight Sto:lo communities in the tribal council split from the Sto:lo Nation in 2004.
Chief Joe Hall at the Sto:lo Nation was unavailable for comment yesterday.
The Fraser Salish Children & Family Services Society, formed by the tribal council with support from other aboriginal groups, was intended to replace the existing Xyolhemeylh agency operated by the Sto:lo Nation Society.
The B.C. Childrens’ Ministry was overseeing operations at Xyolhemeylh while the interim board led by Point held discussions with the Sto:lo Nation, Sto:lo Tribal Council and other aboriginal communities.
“The aboriginal people in the catchment area have confidence in the board to fulfill their mandate,” Point said. “I appreciate the support and commitment to the (interim board’s) success ... to meet the needs of our children and families.”
Point also said a new executive director is being sought for Xyolhemeylh following the recent departure of Darin Park.
But Grand Chief Doug Kelly said a new name may also be in order for the new agency, to make a clean break with the negative connotations of Xyolhemeylh in some aboriginal communities.
“With the agreement on a new body to take over management and delivery of services ... it’s probably time to take a look at community, cultural and spiritual leaders to seek out a new name,” he said.
McNeil said the the interim board’s success comes after increased funding support from the ministry, which he hoped will continue after the new board is announced.
TFN treaty passes
By Jeff Nagel - South Delta Leader - July 03, 2008 | | | |
‘Historic’ deal moves forward through Senate
B.C’s first urban treaty with the Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) is now law after a speedy passage by the Senate in Ottawa.
Royal assent was granted last Friday (June 27), the final stage in the ratification of the contentious treaty, which is worth more than $120 million in land and cash and brings self-government powers and a share of the Fraser River fishery.
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