Carly Wignes traces the roots of today's overlapping claims and stymied treaty negotiations to colonial control in British Columbia, examining alternative ways of viewing First Nations governance, kinship ties and land use allocation. She interviews First Nations people, anthropologists, treaty negotiators and other experts in an attempt to improve on standard media portrayals of the treaty process in British Columbia, providing a clearer and more complex picture of obstacles and what is at stake.
In This Series
Treaty Troubles: Colonialism's Deep Currents
Dispute between the Yale and Stó:lō may be most contentious case of competing claims in BC. First in a series.
Treaty Troubles: More than a Century in the Making
In BC, a lone white official who sensed the complexity of First Nations kinships and land use was tragically ignored. Second in a series.
Treaty Troubles: The Yale Eye End of 17-Year 'Marathon'
Agreement holds promise of self-rule. But some see the start of an unworkable fishery. Third in a series.
Beyond Treaty Troubles: Examples of Successful Sharing
How some bands are drawing on old ways to resolve competing claims today. Last in a series.