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Watch RAVEN’s award-winning short documentary, Raven People Rising

Andrea Palframan|June 7, 2021|#SolidarityFromHome, Heiltsuk, Heiltsuk Film Events

Raven People Rising shares the Heiltsuk Nation’s journey towards the first-ever Aboriginal Title claim for seabed and foreshore. Take a trip to the Great Bear Rainforest, and witness the power and strength of the Indigenous Heiltsuk community holding corporations and governments accountable for a devastating spill.

Support the Heiltsuk Nation’s legal challenge and explore British Columbia’s beautiful coastline all from your living room with a screening of Raven People Rising. Watch the film, then Donate . All contributions made starting June 8, 2021 – World Oceans Day – will be DOUBLED.

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Gitxaała’s groundbreaking opposition to B.C.’

Gitxaała’s groundbreaking opposition to B.C.’s outdated and unjust Mineral Tenure Act just got even stronger. It’s now bolstered by the voices of Indigenous organizations, environmental groups, First Nations governments, and responsible mining advocates who have been given leave to intervene in the upcoming court challenge.

This historic legal action, scheduled for a seven-day hearing starting April 3, 2023, will now also benefit from the diverse perspectives of groups like the B.C. Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN), MiningWatch Canada @miningwatch.canada, and Skeena Wild

Four of the intervenors — Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs, Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation, Ts’kw’aylaxw First Nation and the coalition of BCAFN, First Nations Summit (FNS) and Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) — are funded by RAVEN thanks to our recently introduced Intervenor Fund.

Under the current free-entry system, there is no duty on any miner to consult with any Indigenous Nation prior to staking a claim for mineral rights on a parcel of land. That means anyone can, with just $25 and a mouse click, stake a claim online on Indigenous land without so much as notifying the Nation on whose territory they plan to prospect. Gitxaała Nation asserts that this system is unconstitutional because it does not meet the Crown’s obligations to consult, and that the mineral tenure system violates B.C.’s new Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) legislation.

Says Hereditary Chief Sm’ooygit Nees Hiwaas (Matthew Hill), “The fact that B.C. still grants mineral claims with total disregard for Indigenous nations like Gitxaała is a damaging relic of colonialism that has no place in the present day.”

The cases will be the first legal tests of the province’s DRIPA, which became law in 2019. The act is aimed at addressing decolonization and reconciliation efforts in the B.C. court system. If successful, Gitxaała’s challenge would have a significant impact on how mining is carried out in B.C.

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This next module of Home on Native Land is an Indi

This next module of Home on Native Land is an Indigenous Legal History Sandwich, a heaping pile of legislation we could chew on for days. Join us as we dig into the meat of the issue, but the real question is… when will justice be served? LINK IN BIO to register and participate!

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Doreen’s family is legendary within Indigenous organizing and politics. Her father, George Manuel, was a chief and leader when the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s awakened the general public’s awareness of the social injustices experienced by Black and Indigenous Peoples throughout Turtle Island.

When the Canadian government began the process of repatriating the constitution from the U.K., the entire Manuel family joined forces with organizers across the country to demand recognition of Indigenous rights and title in the new constitution.

The work of Doreen Manuel – and her siblings, Bob, Vera and Art — took place during a renaissance of Indigenous organizing. Emboldened by an earlier legislative victory against the White Paper, Nations were also flexing their legal muscles, bringing groundbreaking legal challenges to the courts and winning many of them. Cases like Calder paved the way for the federal government’s recognition of Indigenous title and worked in tandem with political organizing to move the needle on Indigenous rights.

If Doreen hadn’t uprooted her entire family, and joined forces with thousands of others from the Arctic to the Maritimes and all points in between, we could be living in a very different country today.

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