Posts by Andrea Palframan
Rolling out the red carpet for Indigenous protectors at VIFF
October 8, 2019: On the eve of the raising of a Big House in Heiltsuk territory, the Vancouver International Film Festival hosted a special joint screening with Tsleil Waututh and Heiltsuk Nations. RAVEN’s latest documentary, “Raven People Rising”, screened alongside “When the Tide Goes Out”, a piece by Eliot Galan chronicling the return of the…
Read MoreAs Heiltsuk Raises the Roof on Their Historic Big House, RAVEN Launches a Week of Action
Heiltusk are raising a Big House in the heart of their community where they can host potlatches, hold ceremonies and carry out traditional governance of their territory. It’s no coincidence that the Big House opens on the anniversary of the Nathan E. Stewart spill. Fiercely determined to enshrine Indigenous stewardship practices into law, the Heiltsuk…
Read MoreDefend the Treaties case boosted: Beaver Lake Cree awarded advance costs
(français ci dessous) This week, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench granted advance costs to Beaver Lake Cree Nation to allow it to proceed with its “Defend the Treaties” – formerly Tar Sands Trial – treaty case against Canada and Alberta. It’s a huge breakthrough for a case that’s been called ‘a gamechanger’ for Indigenous…
Read MoreHelp the Tŝilhqot’in Nation Protect Teẑtan Biny: An ongoing fight to protect our sacred lands and waters
The Tŝilhqot’in won another legal victory in its protection of Teẑtan Biny, but the fight isn’t over yet. We need your help. Make a donation to the legal fund today! The Tŝilhqot’in Nation celebrated yet another legal victory that has once again prevented a massive drilling program at Teẑtan Biny in support of the rejected…
Read MoreVIFF to screen RAVEN’s Heiltsuk film at Pacific Cinemateque October 8
This special screening features two films that delve into Indigenous Nations’ relationships with the respective lands they call home. In Raven People Rising (dir. Andrea Palframan), we learn of the ancestral teachings that powerfully connect the Heiltsuk Nation to the Great Bear Rainforest. Meanwhile, When the Tide Goes Out(dir. Eliot Galan) examines how food sovereignty…
Read MoreOn Strike for the Climate: At Work for the Future
The anticipation is building: in city after city, around the world, millions of people are joining forces and taking to the streets to demand climate justice. Climate strikes, led by youth, are disrupting business as usual in a unified demand for justice. At RAVEN, we focus on the intersection of Indigenous rights and climate…
Read MoreTogether against TMX: First Nations launch new round of legal challenges
Watch the video from the press conference in which First Nations officially launched their appeals of the recent re-approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline and Tanker Expansion Project (TMX). If successful, these legal challenges could once again stop the project in its tracks by quashing or nullifying the approval. The First Nations applicants’ traditional territories…
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by Mark Gauti, T’Sou-ke Nation This image was created by Mark Gauti and represents Raven in a Pacific Northwest coast natural setting of cedar trees and a river. The face in Raven’s belly represents the human connection to Raven and also the connection to all things that are natural. Many Pacific Northwest Nations and tribes…
Read MoreAnother barrier to TMX, brought to you by Indigenous Nations
In a victory for the Squamish Nation — and a setback to TMX — on September 17, 2019, B.C.’s Court of Appeal ordered ministers to reconsider the Provincial Environmental Certificate issued to Trans Mountain under the previous provincial government. This means that BC can now impose more stringent conditions on TMX, and could, as Squamish Nation recommends,…
Read MoreGame-changing: The Bitumen Reference Case
Who gets to regulate the flow of bitumen through boundary-traversing pipelines: the province or the federal government? That’s been the question at the heart of the prosaically-named “Bitumen Reference” case that, after being dismissed by the Federal Court of Appeals, is now set to be heard before the Supreme Court of Canada. Maybe, though, that…
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