Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, Climate Change, Fieldschool, Fisheries, Research Projects, Settler appropriation on Oct 20th, 2022 Comments Off on Presentation to: SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2006
Menzies: Thank you. I’d like to begin by acknowledging that we are sitting here today on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Nations and to recognize these nations and the continuation of these nations even in the midst of the implantation of this city. I am speaking here today, drawing upon a number of […]
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Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, CAA2022, Research Projects, Settler appropriation on Apr 28th, 2022 Comments Off on ‘Nothing of significance here:’ Archeologists and Abalone.
I’ve had a thing for bilhaa (abalone) for some time. I grew up eating them and picking them when given the chance. Then I got asked to write an expert opinion in the early 2000s by David Robins (lawyer with Woodward & Company) when a fellow community member was charged with illegal harvest and possession […]
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Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, CAA2022, Research Projects, Settler appropriation on Apr 28th, 2022 Comments Off on The archaeologist and the waakyil (currant) patch.
In 2008 I chartered a vessel for a pilot project exploring intertidal stone traps. This was the gateway to a decade and a half archaeological adventure. My family was the crew in 2008 and we sailed from Vancouver to laxyuup Gitxxała in a 40 foot vessel. We worked our way through the territory one cove, […]
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