![The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) wrote a letter condemning “the Governments of Canada and of the Province of British Columbia for their use of force, surveillance, and criminalization of land defenders and peaceful protesters to intimidate, remove and forcibly evict Secwepemc and Wet’suwet’en Nations from their traditional lands, in particular by the RCMP, the Community-Industry Response Group (CIRG), and private security firms.”
In the letter, CERD “regrets” that Canada’s interpretation of the declaration is to “guarantee a process, but not a particular result.”... suggesting that Canada believes it can override a nation’s consent if it wants to, forcing projects on an Indigenous nation.
In December 2019, the Committee urged the State party to cease forced evictions.
CERD “profoundly regrets and is concerned” about the increased acts of Secwepemc and Wet’suwet’en peoples.
“In a recent interview, Wet’suwet’en hereditary Chief Namoks called the ongoing colonization of his nation a human rights issue that is being ignored and if land defenders didn’t protest, governments and businesses would ‘just steamroll through’.”
“You know what the largest and longest-running industry in Canada is, ever since Canada became a country? Indigenous people,” he said. “Ever since contact, they've been constantly under [government’s] thumb.
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Last updated on February 10, 2022
“Recognizing a need to protect their land, resources, and culture against future threats, the Innu people joined the province’s Mi’kmaq and Inuit people in 1973 to form the Native Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (NANL). The Innu people broke away from NANL three years later to form the Naskapi Montagnais Innu Association, which changed its name to the Innu Nation in 1990.
The Innu Nation today represents about 2,200 Innu people, who elect a president and board of directors to oversee the group’s political, business, and other affairs. The Innu Nation’s mandate is to provide a unified political voice to protect the Innu people’s interests against outside threats, as well as to pursue land claim negotiations and help deliver education, health-care, and other social services to its membership. In the past, the group has protested low-level military flight training over Innu lands and various industrial projects that affected Innu resources, including the Lower Churchill Falls hydroelectric project, clear-cutting operations, construction of the trans-Labrador highway, and the Voisey’s Bay nickel mine.”
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1. Websites
Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan First Nation Website
Sur les Traces des Pekuakamiulnuatsh Website
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5. Changelog
- First update (June 15, 2018)
- Boundaries and name updated, sources and websites added (November 5, 2020)
- Updated territory shape, added map (February 10, 2022)
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