Big news today, as Ecuador has revoked the licence for a Canadian company to develop a massive gold mine.

Brandi Morin reported from Ecuador on this mining project in May, with locals telling her it was a ‘ticking time bomb.’

Brandi’s feature: ricochet.media/indigenous/b...

“In this 50th anniversary year, the Tribunal and Te Tiriti are under a sustained attack from perhaps the most anti-Tiriti government that we’ve seen since the Tribunal was established.” — Carwyn Jones.

Paige and Steph were invited by Lil'wat and N'Quatqua to see why the temporary park closure matters, not only to the First Nations but to the park itself. A beautiful story to read & witness on the last day of the fall closure.

This is a must-read for anyone in academia. While it focuses on administrative positions in certain parts, it's such an excellent resource with stats and critiques of all the indigenization/reconciliation rhetoric that it's got something for everyone. Highly recommend.

There are literally over 30 legal orders and a half dozen resolutions from First Nations Leadership telling ISC what to do next- comply with the orders, stop fighting First Nations kids in court and pull back discriminatory policies and conduct.

"By artificially pitting recognition of and respect for First Nations’ human rights against the interests of who he refers to as “real people”, Premier Eby has employed a strategy that belongs firmly in a dark and less enlightened time." www.ubcic.bc.ca/comments_of_... #bcpoli

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Join us at UVic First Peoples House on Sept 25 & 26 for "Jurisdiction Back: Restoring Indigenous Governance through an Ethic of Care". Such an incredible gathering of Indigenous law & governance practitioners, scholars, artists, visionaries. Free registration forms.gle/i1WaihgZ6aMn...

Some things I learned while writing this story on Canada’s new “pillar” of Aboriginal Law, Cowichan Tribes v. Canada, for @thetyee.ca:

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"UBCIC raises our hands to the survivors, elders, and leaders for their strength in retelling the extremely traumatic stories of what happened to children at St. Augustine’s Residential School, and to the investigators for documenting and sharing evidence" www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_stands...

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are used to protect the reputation of professors and universities, often a condition of a resolution. They serve to mask the enormity of sexual misconduct in our institutions & preventing survivors from sharing their experiences of harassment and assault.

What is surprising is not the sexual harassment of students by a prof but the fact that this story made it into the news. How about an investigative report on the use of NDAs by universities during settlement of sexual harassment & assault investigations?

“We are deeply saddened, but these numbers are not a surprise to us. We have always believed our Elders. This wasn’t a school, it wasn’t a choice, and the children who attended were stolen,” said Chief Lenora Joe. “We didn’t need the GPR to prove this happened; we always had enough proof to know.”

Huu-ay-aht territories are experiencing a new swiftly growing wildfire - ignited only yesterday, it is now upwards of 1300 hectares. Keeping community & loved ones in the area in my thoughts as they face yet another impact of climate change on their lands and lives.

Brilliant conversation on the meaning of “climate justice” from local Indigenous relations to global circuits of power: “Syilx-led Climate Justice in a Global Context”, featuring Jeanette Armstrong in dialogue with @naomiaklein.bsky.social & Onyx Sloan Morgan. www.icerpress.ca/live-recorde...

"We will not be legislated to; we will uphold our Title and Rights recognized under section 35 of the Constitution. We are the First Peoples of the Land; we are not Canada’s Indians." - Chief Don Tom www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_gravel...

Coastal First Nations are not just another Canadian ‘stakeholder’ but self-governing Nations for whom “anything that proposes to send crude oil through our coastal waters is a non-starter.” Read the open letter from Heiltsuk Chief K̓áwáziɫ Marilyn Slett coastalfirstnations.ca/resources/op...

Grateful for permission to draw on research I conducted with @ubcic.bsky.social on Indigenous women's laws & land governance, part of UBCIC's work to center Indigenous legal orders in land restitution processes like specific claims. Full report here: www.ourlawsarisefromtheland.org/discussion-p...

I'm grateful to have permission to draw on research I conducted with @ubcic.bsky.social on Indigenous women's laws and land governance, part of UBCIC's broader work to center Indigenous legal orders in land restitution processes like specific claims. www.ourlawsarisefromtheland.org/discussion-p...

I take up Cole Harris's historical geography of BC's reserve formation, revisiting archival and scholarly sources to reveal the multiple forms of dispossession Indigenous women experienced simultaneously.

Excited to share that my article "(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive" is out today with the Annals of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cornell law professor Sandra Babcock discusses a major new human rights report she co-authored, which adds to the growing consensus that "Israel has committed and is committing the crime of apartheid" against Palestinians.

The report was released Thursday, on what Palestinians mark as Nakba Day.

We’re much more lethal outside of the house…21 extra days to power up the movement to get rid of them #onetermgovt

"It's been three years since the deaths of Tatyanna Harrison, Noelle O'Soup and Chelsea Poorman."

"If you were to help someone hide a crime, that in itself would be a crime."

"So I don't know what happens when our justice system does it."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Genocide