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LIL’WAT CITIZENS
OUR PATH FORWARD
FEBRUARY 25TH & 26TH , 2017 ULLUS COMMUNITY CENTRE
MOUNT CURRIE, BC
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Attendance Facilitators
Satsan (Herb George) - Senior Associate, Centre for First Nations Governance
Chris Robertson - Senior Associate, Centre for First Nations Governance
In Attendance:
Ernest Armannn
Joshua Anderson
Paulette Andrew
Greg Bikadi
Sheila Bikadi
Troy Bikadi
Veronica Bikadi
Maxine Bruce
Dale Dan
Ralph Dan
Vanessa Dan
Joyce Dick Yana
Ruth Dick
Helena Edmonds
Vera Edmonds
Glenda Gabriel
Vaughan Gabriel
Marcella Jim
Joanne John
Theresa Jones
Lois Joseph
Richard Joseph
Bobbi Jo Leo
James Louie
Calvin Nelson
Emhaolen Nelson
Felicity Nelson
Dean Nelson
Rick Nelson
Alison Pascal
Elizabeth Peters
Sharyle Peters
Gregory Peters
Josephine Peters
Martina Pierre
Ray Pierre
Marshall Ritchie
Priscilla Ritchie
Tara Smith
Rosemary Stager
Michelle Thevarge
Alphonse Wallace
Melanie Williams
Michelle Williams
Tanina Williams
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Executive Summary On February 25th and 26th, 2017, the Lil’wat Nation hosted a gathering on Lil’wat Inherent Rights and Title (Session Two) at the Ullus Community Centre. 46 Lil’wat Nation citizens participated which included 32 adults, 2 youth and 12 Chief and Councilors. The session was chaired by Chief Dean Nelson and Chief Operating Officer Ernest Armann. The gathering began with opening comments from Chris Robertson, Senior Associate with the CFNG who introduced fellow senior associate Satsan (Herb George). Chief Dean Nelson, welcomed everyone and shared his dream of the ancestors, the songs and our future. He started off with a song, welcoming all the drummers and dancers to join in. Councilor Martina Pierre provided an opening prayer. Chris Robertson, Senior Associate with the Centre for First Nations Governance (CFNG) followed with a review of the Agenda for Session Two (See appendix A). 1. A review of the January Session: What is the Inherent Right, The Indian Act; What is
Aboriginal Title and Section 35; What is the Self Government that arises out of our Legal Cases?; What does consultation and accommodation mean and the new Government to Government Relationship.
2. A comprehensive introduction to the Five Pillars and Principles of Effective Self Government. 3. Community Gathering Exercise on the Five Pillars and Principles 4. An Inherent Right and Title Strategy 5. Community Gathering Exercise on the Inherent Right and Title Strategy
The session provided participants with considerable information on Lil’wat Nation’s title to its territory and the rights and jurisdiction its citizens have to govern their land and themselves in accordance with their own vision. Participants actively engaged in exercises to discuss these matters and propose ideas and suggestions to moving their community well beyond their current circumstances. The following report and attached appendixes presents information provided by the CFNG facilitators and the feedback from the participants who attended the session.
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OUR PATH FORWARD: (DAY ONE - FEBRUARY 25TH, 2017)
Overview Satsan provided an overview of the material and information covered from the January community gathering session. (See January 2017 Report) Indian Act
Took us off our land
Made us dependent
Oppressed us
Cultural Genocide
Assimilation
Outlawed our governments
Residential schools
Powerless, hopelessness, helplessness
Wards of Crown
No legal status
And capacity (don’t have rights as a people)
Don’t own land Indigenous Lil’wat Title/Rights
Legal right in the land itself
The right to choose how you use the land (governance)
The right to use the Land at our own discretion (governance)
Our land has an inescapable economic component
We have territorial authority Self Government and Legal Cases:
The landmark decisions rendered by the Courts over the past 30 years belong to everyone. Not just the Nisga’a, Haida, Gitsxan and Wet’suwet’en etc. but to all First Nations across this country.
Delgamuukw/Gisday’wa was a foundational Supreme Court decision that today the successes of many cases are derived from.
These decisions have set out how the Crown is to deal with First Nations and implicitly how First Nations are to deal with the Crown.
The Courts have implied that it’s about a new relationship with First Nations and that it recognizes the existence of our title and rights under the law.
S.35 Constitution Act 1982
Our former leaders fought hard to have Sec. 35 put in to the Canadian constitution to protect our rights from being violated by the government.
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Sec 35 has proven to be a very powerful protection of our rights and has provided us with the opportunity to restore and rebuild our own systems of governance, jurisdiction and return us to our lands.
So Lil’wat title/rights, as we define them, are protected by S.35 of the constitution. It includes our Inherent Right to Self-government
First Nations are a third order of Government in Canada.
Government-Government-Government (First Nations-Federal-Provincial)
Section 35 is a full box of rights…Lil’wat rights as we define them.
The holders of those rights are the only ones that can determine what those rights are.
Our rights are collective, not individual. Only the citizens of a nation can decide how those rights are used and what can be done with them. No group or individual can decide what happens with our rights unless we mandate them to.
So what does this all mean?
We have an Inherent right of self-government to govern ourselves. We have a legal right in the land. We:
Have regained our jurisdiction over Lands and Resources
Can create and participate in an economy.
Can develop Nation-to-Nation relationships
Have a new era
Have protection of Section 35 as a full box of rights
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So what does this all look like?
Under the Canadian Constitution the powers of authority fall under Sections 35, Section 91 and section 92.
Lil’Wat Gov’t S.35: Jurisdiction & Protection. - The right to develop own laws
-The right to develop own policies
Canada BC Section 91 Section 92
The right to develop certain laws and policies
Consultation Negotiations Gov’t to Gov’t
Conflict/Disagreement in Laws/Policies and
Jurisdiction
LIL’WAT NATION’s OWN LAWS and POLICIES
FED/PROV LAWS
POLICIES
Accommodation What does Lil”Wat want? What relationship does it
want with the Crown?
Negotiate between conflicting laws and policies to reach….
AGREEMENT!
RECONCILIATION GOV’T to GOV’T
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Satsan, Senior Associate, (CFNG) reviewed the Five Pillars and Principles to Effective Self Government in detail (Appendix B). Following Satsan’s review, Chris Robertson, Senior Associate of the CFNG provided participants with a Community Gathering Exercise Participants were organized into working groups and provided their feed back on the Five Pillars and Principles.
1. The People
Citizens made up government
Leaders
Teachers
Warriors
Rights holders
Strong families/clans….
Spiritually strong
Principles/values
Sacred ceremonies
Clear roles/responsibilities
Language medicine/healers
Protocols
Culture/traditions
Child welfare
Supported our own births
Balance/harmony
Arts/entertainment
Holders/keepers of history
Caretakers of our territories
Recognition/respect for each other and the land
2. The Land
Territorial (all of it)
Used the lands & resources
Governed
Protected
Transformers
Natural & beautiful
Bountiful
Spirit in the land
Organized land use
Managed our activity on Land
Oral histories all of our lands are named
We’ve been on our lands since creation
We are connected to the land-obligations
Skel7awlh/Twit
Used all our lands, trails, technology
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Depended on Land
Infrastructure
Seasonal places/use
3. Laws and Jurisdiction
Laws/judiciary
Enforced
Trespass laws
Regulations/policies
Protocol
Natural law
Rule of law
Boundaries
Unique land holding
Human rights
Covenants
4. Governance (Institutions)
Nxekmen
Clan System
Family Head
Government - Government Relations
Leaders, clear roles & responsibilities overall
N’takmen
Dictated by means to survive
People First
Transparent/accountable
5. Resources
Lands: used the resources to look after yourselves
Trade/trade language
Economies
Sustainable Kúítsám
Laws, regulations/policies, principles/values
Taught not to be greedy, don’t take too much and don’t be stingy
Knew when and how to use resources
Food and medicines
History/language/traditions
Land is our culture
Gifts of the land “not resources”
Sustainable land use
Restoration
People-Leaders
Specialists
Healers
Warriors
Watchmen
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Teachers
Roles & Responsibilities
Midwives
Herbalists
Story tellers
Knowledge keepers
Hunters/fishers
Food gathers
Fire makers
Clans/family heads had specific responsibilities
Communicators
Toolmakers/weavers
Spiritual connection
Taught our people everything about land
Knowledge handed down
Prophets
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PILLAR #1: PEOPLE
Meaningful Information Sharing o Engagement
Cultural events Sports activities Sharing food/eating together
Rites of passage
Quarterly seasonally appropriate activities on the Land
Stories/legends that go with the activity and place
Strategic Vision
Rites of Passage
Language Classes
Hands on activities
Bring Back Our Laws - cit’leqam
Themed language - phrases practiced
Cultural Calendar for Community
Scheduled days to share gifts eg. Carving, story telling etc…
Be Responsible for your Role & Responsibilities
MORE SIGNIFICANCE TOWARD NT’AKMEN
Ullus Set time to have an open area for Lil’wat Place People to practice Fish Camp Culture without expense Skalula Men’s group; Women’s group Ts’zil Youth and Elders Bring couples/family group
Protocols Leadership Teachings Shared Knowledge
Seasonal Feasts Discuss protocol History Stories Processes Practices
Mandatory until common practice
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Decision Making
Who is a citizen [re defined by Lil’wat]
Bloodline -with exceptions
Not
Symbol for practicing cultural protocol
Following traditions
Wear proudly in community
Five Feathers to Knowledge Keeper
Matrilineal Participation
Matrimonial Integrity Family head (system)
Responsibilities
Roles
Clarify Protocols
Separate introduced protocols from Lil’wat protocols
Inform and practice Lil’wat nxekmen
Elders not by age, by respect When is informed sharing reached?
Ownership, accountability Sense of Quality, Pride, Belonging
Healthy demeanor towards R & R
People - Summary Guided by our Creator and Ancestors, Lil’wat will learn and live Nt’akmen through our traditional ways of knowing, to respect and trust one another.
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PILLAR #2: THE LAND Territorial Integrity:
(Holistic) written laws & regulations that includes spiritual protocols *.
Strengthen communication now!
Ceremonies to acknowledge what we take from the land
Connect to our land, walk the lands *
Learn the traditional names and uses of our land
N’takmen lhKalha
All citizens (Lilwat) assert title
Continues teaching about connection to the Land and the sources
Hunting, harvesting, weaving
Traditional practices & protocols (taught & practiced)
“Sustainability” Traditional practices
Condition ourselves to our rights to govern ourselves
De-colonize
Dependency to independent by learning traditional practice
Celebrate & recognize traditional roles
Our own calendar for land use
Boundaries understood & taught
Monuments on the lands
Gender practices & places for specific times or teachings
Sacred places recognized and named
Develop a land use plan with the people, evaluate and update regularly
Work with neighbors on protocols and land use planning for overlap areas and boundaries and spiritual places
Economic Realization:
Seasonal harvesting 0 timing was taught and important
Develop book and texts of our land and ways
Update land use plan
Manage bike areas, Joffre
Respect for the Spirit of the Land
Our own calendar or season laws
Recognition & belief of the spirit of the land
Oral history passed down
How nature spoke to us Respect for the Spirit of the land:
Manage and protect our lands and harvesting areas (use to burn areas for our huckleberries)
Create more opportunities to bring people out on the land
Healing practices on the land resources
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*Assessment of our lands today needs to be done to determine our future use and management, including infrastructure, future fish camps and berry picking and other harvesting areas
Restoring fish habitat and others
Future housing and village sites
Restoring the protection of sacred sites, and the traditional laws taught on why/or explained ore create that sacred space
Work with neighbors nations to develop boundary line and protocols for overlap
Traditional boundary markings Land Summary:
Lil’wat Land Laws & Regulations written.
Connect to our Lands
Assessment of our lands to determine our future use and management, including infrastructure, future fish camps & berry picking etc.….
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PILLAR #3: LAWS & JURISDICTION
Clearly Defining & Understanding our N’takmen muta7 N’xekmin
Create
Lil’wat Rule of Law “People”
Teach, Practice, Share
Research the work that was already completed/recorded and Educate the Findings
Revive our Culture & Language there in lies Our Morales & Values
Individual
1. Accountability to Ourselves
2. Raise Community Standards
Hear from Our Knowledge Keepers on How they Interpret Living our Ways
Creators of a New Direction
3. Lil’wat is Going to be Empowered
Family Head - “Vital”
The Importance to carry on!!
4. Living In Your Purpose (Elder is not an Age)
“Not to go with your Cousin”
Expansion of jurisdiction
Empower our Human Resources
Enhance our HR Capacity
Re-establish Stewardship throughout our Territory
Share the Knowledge
“Communicate”
Expansion of Jurisdiction
Rule of Law
Traditional Knowledge needs to be protected
We will follow our own Natural Law
Restorative Justice System
Train Our Future Leaders
Enforcing Our N’xekmin
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PILLAR #4 RESULTS BASED ORGANIZATION (INSTITUTIONS)
Helps to move people towards its Lil’wat Vision
Educate ourselves on what this means
Participate and develop the vision (people) ASAP – All Levels of understanding
Teach our kids in our school about Lil’wat Vision & Goals & our ways (Nt’akmen)
Communicate Purpose
Develop a lifelong continuum of development strategy for Lil’wat7ul
Capacity build leadership & workers for change
Incorporate evaluation framework Cultural Alignment We need to identify what values we want/need to infuse (practices & beliefs)
Relationship with mother earth
Traditional knowledge & history
Language is central to our connection to land& spirit
Answer the phone Ucwalmicwts part of immersion
Nt’akmen protocols
Task org’s to implement Vision into operations, programs, services & incorporate ceremony
Need our own laws to be developed to Govern our actions Transparency & Fairness
Adopt policy Gov. publicize
Conflict of interest
Tell people what we do, how we are going to do it, tell them when it’s done and tell them when you did not do it & why
Clarify process & procedures
Nt’akmen Protocols
Reciprocal accountability with the people / both ways
Need to communicate to all levels of understanding
Capacity & boundaries
Understanding / balance
Communicate / acct. back down our Gov’t structure (family/clans) Inter-Governmental
Create L.N. Govt. First with the People (Structure & Levels - Hierarchy)
Determine effective decision making for ourselves – Est. Standards
Awareness between Govt-Govt-Govt
Skill Development our Leaders, Negotiations, Conflict Management
Nt’akmen protocols
JD Values & Principles and share
Research our practices bring best practices forward
Share these will all - good faith
Use Celebration to share accomplishments to show all.
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PILLAR #5 RESOURCES
Work with our neighboring first Nations
Education & career paths
Mentoring
Help our kids shine
Our language
Collaborations with our neighboring first Nations
Life skills
Strengthening families
“Financial management Capacity”
Invest in our selves
Evaluate ourselves
How we live our lives
How we learn Resources –Accountability & Reporting
Celebration
Acknowledgement
Recognition
Address issues thru Nt’akmen / Indian court & discussions with each other
Diversity of Revenue Sources
Own Source Revenues
Capture revenues & recycle within our Community
Grow our own economy
Promote entrepreneur Human Resource Capacity
Training to education
Capacity building
Culturally appropriate
Follow our values
Inventory of what we have, so we know what we don’t have
Product development
Partnerships between education institutes & Lil’wat Administration
Passion
Good communicators
Strong skills with ability to be effective
Database of what we have & what we need
Develop Lil’uatem strategy - what it means to be Lil’wat
Human Resource development plans
Vale ourselves and each others and workforce
Raise lawyers, doctors, etc..
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Acknowledge our own strengths
Respect each other’s
Plans for Lilwat nursery to Post Secondary to employment
Develop Leaders
Learn protocols when asking for services
Help us help ourselves
Succession planning
Recognition of the current Human Resources working for the Nation
Simple “Please & Thank You” to each other
Acknowledgement of employees that do good job
Share the wealth of the work
Change from disable to ABLE
Financial Management Capacity
Accountability
Sustain the land
Law & policies to protect our resources
Long & short term management
Measurable
Annual assessment & evaluations
Audit
Acknowledge & celebrate our Financial Administration Law and understand it
5-year budget plans including strategic plans
Own source revenues
Community involvement in planning
Transparency & accountability
Develop a financial management & strategy that contributes to our community
Develop a vision of Healthy Community & work towards
We are very aware of the obstacles, how do we over come those? Diversity of Revenue Sources
Entrepreneurship
Strategically plan on how four people can strive on their own
Restoration to continue on sustainability
Build our own economy
Keep the financial resource within Lil’wat
Partnerships & agreements with others directly / internationally
Generate our own funds
Increase our use of our traditional medicines & reduce our dependency of mainstream Canada
Alternative electrical sources
Geothermal
More independent businesses, less Band Office
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Performance Evaluation
Celebrate our successes with community
Acknowledge the lessons learned
Tie our successes tour history
Be accountable with each others, including community
Share & make all policies public
Ensure mentoring programs
Job shadowing
Create a qualifications process that we can all strive for
Evaluate Projects ie. ULHP its checks and balances
Evaluate every stream of funds we receive are funds meeting our needs?
Create a needs assessment
Call upon learning institutes that reflect our education and training needs and direction
Closing The session concluded at 4:00 pm. Satsan (Herb George) and Chris Robertson provided closing remarks. The session would continue tomorrow morning Sunday, February 26th, 2017 at 9:30 am.
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OUR PATH FORWARD: (DAY TWO - FEBRUARY 26TH, 2017)
Satsan provided an in introduction and review of the Centre for First Nations Governance, “A
FRAMEWORK FOR AN ABORIGINAL TITLE AND INHERENT GOVERNANCE
RIGHT STRATEGY” (Appendix C) Following Satsan’s review, Chris Robertson, provided participants with a Community Gathering Exercise based on a draft work plan that accompanies the Strategy. Participants circulated among seven tables and were encouraged to provide their feedback. Each table was designated for a particular strategy within the framework. The following represents the input provided by participants.
Relationship with the people
Doing workshops like this (simplify it)
Going to the peoples comfort zone by providing this workshop with the resource contact (i.e. health centre) at the health centre.
Establish a base
Address the people concerns
We are a member of Human Rights
Lil’wat Rights (we have to share)
Being respectful
Family teach Lil’wat Protocols
Language
Culture
Spirituality
Hunting Gathering Ceremony
Creation - we are
Creator
Land Ancestry (i.e. Family Tree)
We are All Equals
Equality of Human Rights
Everybody Counts
Opinions Count
Purpose
1. ORGANIZE WITH A CLEAR VISION, CONSISTENT GOALS AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
(page 13 of Framework)A strategy must be clearly developed, understood and implemented with clear purposes in mind. It works only if everyone whose interests it is designed to represent share it. The community and leadership must organize work together and have clear expectations about accountability, communications and mandates
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Is a learner
Is teacher
Everyone in this meeting needs to go home and start sharing at home
Keeping in mind 7th Generation
Declaration
Duty Communication
People to People (Face to Face)
Social Media
Information letter invite
Monthly update on the seven key tasks face to face (simplified) Lil’wat Title & Inherent Rights
Share a Traditional
Meal
Stories Be on the land
Ceremony
Honour recognition, gratitude, and
appreciation, teachings and acknowledgement
Family - all generations
Celebrate life stages
SPIRITUALITY
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1. Organizing with a Clear Vision
Foundation
Base - learning; teaching; sharing techniques
Practicing and learning our Lil’wat ways
Lil’wat Rights - equality - human right
Family - tech protocols
Pride
Organizing communication
Multi media
Social media informal invite - gatherings
Spirituality: Ceremony, stories, celebrate, family, acknowledgement
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Strategy Action 1. Develop or begin process of creating your own governance
Gather all fluent speakers to research history and tradition of Lil’wat Laws - record everything and translate later in English.
Gather evidence of the clans and restore the practice and knowledge in community, including how to update “modernize” ne clans if need be. This must be done by one side either maternal “mom” or paternal “dad”, you can’t go by both.
2. Devine what your nation considers to be acceptable practices of governance and jurisdiction.
Family head system researched and defined for the implementation of our Lil’wat Governance including how the clans played a role.
3. Negotiate taking over jurisdiction currently being undertaken by the Crown.
Update land-use plan using Lil’wat laws.
2. REALIZING SELF-GOVERNANCE (page 17)The Supreme Court of British Columbia has clearly said the S.35 of the Constitution protects the inherent right to self-government. First Nations do not need to prove this right nor do they need to negotiate this right with anyone. They need to implement it. The choices related to using the land and recourses are intricately connected inherent rights to choose to “what end” the “land can be put”. However, negotiating certain components of governance will be necessary such as the assumption of responsibilities currently being undertaken by the Crown such as housing, education, capital etc.
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*To communicate this process and all information gathered to the community. 1. Collect, organize document…
Land Use Plan: update/revise
Categorize evidence from Lil’wat research department.
Gather from past anthropologists, linguists, Curtis, bouchard, Elaine Obaswin, Leo Swaboda, Slim Fobeng (re: Paul Dick) [Pemberton Museum]
Compile, oral histories from community and collect
Elders, Georgina, Larry - trapping, Lloyd, Edwin Bikadi, Harry Dick-Land
Ucwalmicw Story: we were born form the belly button and when we die we go back to land (story told by a Bridge River elder, Charlie Mack and Baptiste Ritchie documentaries stories
Research what resources…Forestry, Energy, IPP, Province, Tourism, Fisheries, Farming, Transportation
2. Muleqs-LizzieBay 50/50
MDA-Whistler Blackcomb
Upper Lillooet - IBA
Murphy Construction
SLCC 3. BC Hydro, Highways, Cn, Lillooet river Monitoring, Airport, Golf Courses, 1947 Dredging of
Lillooet Lake - Re: for farmlands, Loss of King Fish story 4. Prepare for Judicial Review Take Control of:
Resource extraction permits are handled by outside agencies for Fishing & Hunting, Harvesting
Compile all:
Government permit regulations are not ours.
Evidence of oral histories to prove we were living Nt’akmen and here from time immemorial.
3. FORMULATING A PROACTIVE LEGAL STRATEGY (page 15 of framework) A proactive legal strategy can set up a drive the aboriginal and inherent rights strategy. First Nations no longer need to prove aboriginal title in order for governments to be legally obligated to consult on and accommodate the rights and interests of a First Nation. Despite the legal obligations that governments are now obligated to follow, industry too would be foolish to disregard consulting with First Nations and accommodating their interests rather then have government do it for them. Being ready to litigate will compel and motivate governments and industry to be more serious about consultation and accommodation. It is a tool that ensures negotiations stay productive opportunities are realized. A “judicial review” is a strategy that merits attention and requires the First Nation to organize its evidence and research.
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Have our own laws - written in our language
Multi-level -spiritual-our use-economical-LUP
Publically accessible
Internet
Strategic alliances made.
Trained negotiators, with, multi-level networking contacts.
Use of the five resource pillars: o People o Land o Laws & Jurisdiction o Institutions o Resources
Experience is identified and give duty
Know your enemy
Resources are identified o Spiritually o Socially o $ Value o Cultural alignment helps to ensure results (social & spiritual values)
People
Remember the laws to be written
Develop laws
Sharing stories (History)
Education
Experience is identified and given duty Land
Pro-active in land use plan Values
Water
Spiritual
4. Formulating a Political strategy (Page 14 of Framework)
A successful political strategy must be two pronged using both negotiation and litigation. It requires a First Nation to be well organized. Negotiations will be more successful if government’s sees that litigation is a viable threat. First Nations with well-developed political strategies are less likely to have to litigate. Politically, it is strategic to:
1. Negotiate at more then one table. 2. Negotiate beyond government with other third party interests and; 3. Define in advance what a First Nation considers to be “consultation
and accommodation” A good political strategy will have First Nation actively and visibly exercise their rights on the ground.
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Medicinal
Food source: hunting, fishing
Tools: baskets, snowshoes, knapping Laws & Jurisdiction
Our law written in ucwalmicts
Our neighbors negotiators identified and terms made
Know your opposition’s laws Institution (Governance)
How each institution is affected
Let our own laws govern/develop our institutions
Cultural alignment helps to ensure results (social & spiritual values)
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We are the Ucwalmicw Tmicw
Taking over our Natural Resources
Develop our own Lil’wat Environment Assessment
Traditional Place name Signage “throughout”
Education
Change the current Referral Process o Fluent speakers o Discuss & record a Lilwat Land use Plan
Spiritual Education Economic Development Approval on the translation into English Overlap areas. Work together
Expansion of Land Use (of the People)
Fishing Berry Picking
Pictographs
Where they are
What they represent
How long they were there
What is the Lil’wat term for “Steward Ship?”
The Lil’wt World of – read Charlie Mack
Publish Texts
On the stories
Pictographs
Stories
Laws
Processes
Regulation
Work together with othr First Nations to protect our resources
Fish
Water
Acc
om
mo
dat
ion
5. TERRITORIAL STEWARDSHIP (page 17)The proper accommodation and protection of aboriginal lands and resources cannot be achieved unless a land or territorial stewardship plan is developed. Consistently applied and widely understood and published by the First Nation. The plan must include the Nation’s vision of the protection and uses of it lands for cultural, social, spiritual and economic purposes. The objective is t o ensure that any consultation and accommodation agreement is harmonized with the First Nations stewardship plan.
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Put our territorial boundaries and specific – foot print etc. Blacktusk
Undo territory (treaty exaggeration)
Place names
Put up territory signs on highway
Lilwat
Nation to Nation (Ucwalmicw) Gov’t to Gov’t to Gov’t Business to Lil’wat Nation, Municipalities to Lil’wat Nation
Abide by Lil’wat protocol: People; Land; Culture; Community; Leadership
Decisions by the people, with the people, for the people
Understanding our intellectual rights in relation to our history and nt’akmen ti tmicwa
As the Ucualmicw Tiicw, Implement Consultation and Accommodation Processes for all our resources “Ama t’siL has”
6: Implement a Consultation and Accommodation Strategy. (Page 16)The Crown has a legal obligation to consult on and accommodate your Aboriginal title & rights. Industry has a wise business obligation to do the same. First Nations are also legally obligated to address existing and potential infringements through well-organized and meaningful consultation and negotiation processes. First Nations must control those processes but only if they have determined in advance what those processes are to be and what their reasonable expectations are.
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Gun sight, Windy Valley
Place names
Sharing sacred sites amongst Lil’wat, burial grounds
Mount Currie )Ts’zil)
Where the water flows - all rivers flow into Lil’wat, natural
Palal T’sem Ullus
CLOSING: The session closed off at 4 pm with final remarks by Chris Robertson, Satsan and Chief Dean Nelson.
The next session is scheduled for March 25 and 26th 2017 at 9:30. Participants are asked to encourage family and friends to attend the two-day session and help contribute to Lil’wat’s Path Forward.
7: RESPECT THE SPIRIT IN THE LAND
An aboriginal title and inherent rights strategy must be anchored directly to your laws, traditions, customs and practices of the First Nation. The spirit of such ties will drive any strategies that are to be effective and appropriate.