By Shari Narine, Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
As the forest fire season in Canada continues to start earlier each year, destroying more and more hectares of wooded area, a new study recommends removing barriers so Indigenous-led cultural burning practices can be used as prominently as the western way of fire suppression is today.
Continue reading Cultural burning holds important place in wildfire mitigationBy Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com
An emergency resolution calling for “de-militarizing” RCMP from using force against defenders of traditional lands was withdrawn at the Assembly of First Nations gathering because chiefs felt uncomfortable wading into the struggles between hereditary chiefs and elected chiefs in Wet’suwet’en territory.
Continue reading Emergency motion to de-escalate RCMP tactics against land defenders gives way to Wet’suwet’en ‘internal dispute’By Shari Narine, Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Two bills introduced in the British Columbia legislature on Nov. 17 illustrate the province is heading in the right direction, say two First Nations leaders.
However, both BC Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Terry Teegee and Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs president Grand Chief Stewart Phillip say more political will is needed to move the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples forward at a faster pace.
Continue reading New BC bills welcomed, but UNDRIP implementation moving at a snail’s pace
