intertribal relations

How First Nations Guardians Defend British Columbia's Fragile Coast

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Indian Country Today
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B.C.'s Central Coast houses the Great Bear Rainforest, the largest intact temperate rainforest left in the world. Attracting environmentalists, tourists, big game hunters, and natural resource developers from all over the globe, this fragile and much-coveted ecosystem has been home to First Nations for over 10,000 years.

But full-time, sustainable employment is sparse in the region's scattered communities. The lack of economic options prompted seven First Nations along the Central and North Coasts–including the Wuikinuxv, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo/Xaixais, Nuxalk, Gitga'at, Metlakatla, Haida and, until last year, the Haisla Nation–to come together in 2000 to form the Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative (CFN GBI) to improve access to their traditional territories and unlock its economic opportunities.

Six years later, the B.C. government took steps to protect both the vulnerable rainforest and the interests of its First Nations, environmentalists, and industry, through Central Coast and North Coast Land and Resource Management Plans covering 6.4 million hectares of land...

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Hyslop, Katie. "How First Nations Guardians Defend British Columbia's Fragile Coast." Indian Country Today Media Network. December 16, 2013. Article. (https://ictnews.org/archive/how-first-nations-guardians-defend-british-columbias-fragile-coast, accessed July 18, 2023)

Potawatomi Tribes Receive $4.2 Million Children's Health Grant

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Three Potawatomi tribes in Michigan have received a grant of almost $4.2 million from the federal government to help promote children’s wellness through a five-year Project LAUNCH program. The federally-recognized Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi and Gun Lake Tribe Potawatomi, also known as the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi, formed a consortium to apply for the grant and received a total of $4,198,250 from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) during the last week of October...

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Toensing, Gale Courey. "Potawatomi Tribes Receive $4.2 Million Children’s Health Grant." Indian Country Today Media Network. November 06, 2012. Article. (https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/health-wellness/potawatomi-tribes..., accessed January 11, 2013)

White Earth and Tsleil-Waututh Nations Partner on Community Wind Power

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Indian Country Today
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Two tribes, from different sides of the 49th Parallel, are reuniting Turtle Island with a business deal. A First Nations—owned company in British Columbia will supply wind power to the White Earth Community Service Center in Naytahwaush and to the Ojibwa Building Supplies facility in Waubun, the U.S. tribe announced on September 6...

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ICTMN Staff. "White Earth and Tsleil-Waututh Nations Partner on Community Wind Power." Indian Country Today, September 9, 2012. Article. (https://ictnews.org/archive/white-earth-and-tsleil-waututh-nations-partner-on-community-wind-power, accessed February 12, 2024)

Norm DeWeaver-Tribal Water Successes and Challenges

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The University of Arizona
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Norm DeWeaver, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., provides three individual Native nation stories focusing on successes and challenges around tribal water rights.

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DeWeaver, Norm. Tribal Water Successes and Challenges. Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainable Water Practices. Water Resource Research Center Conference. The University of Arizona. Chandler, Arizona. 2015. Presentation. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzPDzFNRnLc, accessed September 16, 2015)

Tony Skrelunas-Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future

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The University of Arizona
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Tony Skrelunas, Grand Canyon Trust, explains contemporary efforts of resources management using traditional knowledge and practices.

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Skrelunas, Tony. Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future. Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainable Water Practices. Water Resource Research Center Conference. The University of Arizona. Chandler, Arizona. 2015. Presentation. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNw9505wvI, accessed September 16, 2015)

Ojibwe Treaty Rights

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Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
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As years passed between the signing of treaties and today, American Indians living in Wisconsin re-discovered that they had the right to hunt and fish on the ceded territories, just as their ancestors did. Two brothers took it upon themselves to get arrested for exercising their rights in an attempt to correct a long-standing injustice, and their case took them to the highest court in the nation...

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Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. "Ojibwe Treaty Rights." ENGAGE: State - Tribal - Local Government video series. Produced for the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board by Wisconsin Public Television. 2010. Documentary. (http://wimedialab.org/series/episode/tribal-government, accessed September 19, 2016)

Tribal Courts

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Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
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As the Ojibwe reclaimed their rights to hunt, fish, and gather on the ceded territories, they needed a system of laws, checks, and balances in order to both protect their resources and enforce the law. Soon other tribes followed suit, and soon co-equal systems of justice existed side by side with their Wisconsin counterparts...

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Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. "Tribal Courts." ENGAGE: State - Tribal - Local Government video series. Produced for the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board by Wisconsin Public Television. 2010. Documentary. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6YVPZm1DQQ&index=5&list=PL14C8CBB52DB5832B, accessed December 9, 2014)

Best Practices Case Study (Inter-Governmental Relations): Squamish & Lil'wat First Nations

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The Squamish First Nation and the Lil'wat First Nation are both located in southwestern B.C. and have an area of overlapping traditional territory that extends into the lands around the resort community of Whistler. Although they are two distinct First Nations with different cultures and social relationships, they have a history of respectful co-existence as neighbours. Mindful of the historic precedence of shared lands and the overlapping interests in land stewardship, the Lil'wat Nation met with the Squamish Nation in 1999 to discuss land use and planning in areas of traditional territory overlap. This signalled a move away from competition between neighbouring First Nations for recognition and scarce resources and toward a relationship that could leverage the power of working together on mutual objectives...

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National Centre for First Nations Governance. "Best Practices Case Study (Inter-Governmental Relations): Squamish & Lil'wat First Nations." A Report for the National Centre for First Nations Governance. The National Centre for First Nations Governance. Canada. June 2009. Case Study. (https://fngovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IGR_SquamishLilwat.pdf, accessed March 8, 2023)