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AQ Fall 2024 Features

Comprehensive Claims Policy, 1973, and the progress-in-place of a cede, release, and surrender approach to the Land Question which has changed names but not its nature.

Hunting rights: since Aboriginal rights have to be proved on a case-by-case basis, British Columbia's conservation officers enforce the Wildlife Act all over the map, charging Indigenous hunters and then dropping the action days before the court date, in a widespread form of harassment.

Inquiries and Inaction: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls have been the subject of provincial, national, and international investigations. What has not been pressed is pursuing the individual cases.

Consultation, after 20 years since Haida and Taku SCC decisions, and 40 years since the original finding of the paternalistic fiduciary duty to consult - in place of outright recognition of land titles - in Guerin, 1984, has progressed "unevenly."

Timepiece: In 1994 the Sovereignty Peoples Information Network explained why they wouldn’t want a treaty with Canada anyway, in their response to the United Nations’ survey of treaties and constructive arrangements between states and Indigenous Peoples.

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~ quotes and interviews on the issues as they were

~ relatable commentary and a few side-notes

~ images and timelines that connect people - past and present

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TITLE

Clouding nations older then 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 April

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.

Coming in 2025

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Honouring the indomitable spirit of the Peoples west of the Rockies

BC history is lit from one side - showing settler progress to advantage, while rendering the Indigenous reality of that “progress” indiscernible.

Archive Quarterly aims to balance the view. As well as the written records, interviews with Elders reveal circumstances leading up to political movements, court actions and roadblocks, and conditions in their communities at the time.

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