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After reading several essays on how our land preservation relates to first Nations I can infer that many things would cause economic benefit from the land is morally wrong because it interferes with important first nation land. Flooding the land will be wiping away a burial site filled with information about Canada's history. An example is in BC, BC hydro,wants to make a reservoir but it would cause a sacred Dane-zanee burial site to flood. Unfortunately there is no middle ground as there is not a way to go through with the reservoir while not flooding the archaeological site. It is hard to believe that all this troubles are happening in Canada, so close to where I live. The future is unclear, but it is important to share everyone's perspective on a middle ground of Canada's financial advances versus the land use and preservation of history, we do this to try to unearth the truth.
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You've identified one of the most difficult parts of this issue - the fact that there is no compromise or middle ground, the project can either go ahead or it can't. I agree that it's easy to forget the troubles that go on with people close to where we live, especially since we can find out information about what's going on all over the world! Maybe you could also look into other Canadian issues regarding climate change - especially since local issues are the ones where you're in an ideal position to do something about it!
wow! we need to do something about this
Hello, my name is Helen, a student of Affiliated HS of National Chung-Hsing University in Taiwan. I'm upset that this situation happened in Canada. Same challenges are also happened in Taiwan. In early period of Taiwan, to gain more benefit, many unscrupulous businessmen usually deceived first Nattion and violated their land. What the businessmen did made the crisis that the civilization of first Nation were destroyed. Through a series of protests from citizien, the government pay more attention on this issue. Then they make some laws to protect these perious history. How about your government in Canada?
Are there any policy they make to protect the land of first Nation?
Thank you for the blog Kate. I think it's wonderful that you're trying to take into account all aspects of a difficult situation.
I see a lot of value in preserving the first nations traditional ways of life. Let's remind ourselves that we have a problem named climate change and it can have sever consequences for people on other locations of our planet. One of the ways we can manage/adopt to climate change is by divesting from the culture of "extractivism" which leads to transformation of landscapes into industrial projects. We can learn from first nations how to "live with the nature" and not just exploit it for "economic benefit".
Beth Richardson
Oct 29, 2015