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AQ Winter 2025 Features

Sacred Places v. Ski Resorts

Skwelkwek’welt, Sútikalh, Qat’muk, and other favourite spiritual resorts have been protected from development at a cost of mass arrests, real and threatened violence, global travel, and community persecution.

Petition of January 3, 1995

Text of the 30-year-old application to “an independent and impartial Standing Committee with juridical jurisdiction over boundary disputes between the Indians’ Hunting Grounds and the Crown Governments’ Public Lands.”

Defense of Meares Island, Nuu-chah-nulth

In March 1985, the first court injunction against logging, in favour of Aboriginal rights, was granted – and remains in place for a forty-year adjournment of the case.

Imperial BC in 1825

Treaty of St. Petersburg: The stunning text of the Anglo-Russian Convention on “the Limits of Their Possessions on the Northwest Coast of America,” with a

Timeline of the Imperial Race for control of trade routes in the Pacific Northwest and access to the Indigenous sovereigns, and how

Alaska Native Nations intervene at United Nations human rights processes.

Secret Christmas Potlatch, 1921

Indian Agents in Kwakwala territory raided the homes of participants, seizing food, blankets, sewing machines, worth $10,000, and some 600 ceremonial artifacts.

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TITLE

Clouding nations older than the last Great Flood, the young province of British Columbia has bought time and occupation with bad faith and violence.

Colonial courts rationalize ongoing violations of unsurrendered Indigenous national titles, by hollowing out the judges' own construct: "aboriginal title."

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STATUS

Canada's "Indian Act" of 1876, and its creation: the Non-Status Indian.

This April marks 40 years since Bill C-31 and the first reinstatements of Indian Status. The changes were introduced with new prejudice to Indigenous control of citizenship.

Coming in May

SALMON

In 2009, sockeye salmon in the Fraser River returned at numbers below 1% of historical run sizes.

The federal government has presided over this disaster, and AQ offers an overview of key points along the history of how and when Indigenous Peoples were cut off from management values and denied their most basic rights to the life-sustaining fisheries.

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