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Charlie Michell (left), Red Hawk Michell and Jeanesa Smalleyes from the Nlaka’pamux Nation in Lytton demonstrated traditional dances at the opening celebration of Tuckkwiowhum Heritage Interpretive Village in Boston Bar last Friday. For more coverage of the event, see page 4.
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Sto:lo leaders try to stop Yale Treaty Jennifer Feinberg Black Press
Sto:lo leaders from Chilliwack flew to Ottawa last week to try to stop the federal government from ratifying the Yale First Nation treaty. The final agreement of the Yale treaty was signed in B.C. on April 13, marking the third treaty to emerge from the B.C. Treaty Process. Once the treaty officially comes into effect, the Yale economy will finally be “kick-started” as partnerships are forged with business and
tourism ventures, said Yale Chief Robert Hope. “I really believe this place will be a better place to live,” said the Yale Chief. “It will be better for natives and non-natives; for residents and non-residents.” He said the effective date for the treaty could be 2015. About 80 of the 150 registered Yale members actually live in Yale, a small community north of Hope. “The other half live in places like Chilliwack or Mission,” Hope said. The treaty was approved by the B.C. legislature two years ago, but the Yale treaty bill still has to be
ratified in the House of Commons before it becomes law. One of the outstanding issues for Sto:lo leaders is about access to traditional fishing camps, as well as burial grounds on a stretch of the Fraser River in the Fraser Canyon between Spuzzum and Yale. “The fishery is of significant importance to the Sto:lo people,” said Doug Kelly of the Sto:lo Tribal Council. “It always has been, and it always will be.” This is precisely where the Yale and Sto:lo positions are still at odds, Kelly said, and it could very well end up in court.
“If blood is shed,” Kelly told Black Press, it will be at the hands of provincial and federal government officials for ratifying the Yale treaty. Every time the subject of fishing in the Fraser Canyon comes up publicly, the spectre of violence has been raised by Sto:lo leadership. The two sides have been effectively at an impasse for years, unable to reach any common ground, even efforts with a professional mediator, Vince Ready, failed to produce results. Continued on 3
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