LIL’WAT CITIZENS

OUR PATH FORWARD

FEBRUARY 25TH & 26TH , 2017 ULLUS COMMUNITY CENTRE

MOUNT CURRIE, BC

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Attendance Facilitators

Satsan (Herb George) - Senior Associate, Centre for First Nations Governance

Chris Robertson - Senior Associate, Centre for First Nations Governance

In Attendance:

Ernest Armannn

Joshua Anderson

Paulette Andrew

Greg Bikadi

Sheila Bikadi

Troy Bikadi

Veronica Bikadi

Maxine Bruce

Dale Dan

Ralph Dan

Vanessa Dan

Joyce Dick Yana

Ruth Dick

Helena Edmonds

Vera Edmonds

Glenda Gabriel

Vaughan Gabriel

Marcella Jim

Joanne John

Theresa Jones

Lois Joseph

Richard Joseph

Bobbi Jo Leo

James Louie

Calvin Nelson

Emhaolen Nelson

Felicity Nelson

Dean Nelson

Rick Nelson

Alison Pascal

Elizabeth Peters

Sharyle Peters

Gregory Peters

Josephine Peters

Martina Pierre

Ray Pierre

Marshall Ritchie

Priscilla Ritchie

Tara Smith

Rosemary Stager

Michelle Thevarge

Alphonse Wallace

Melanie Williams

Michelle Williams

Tanina Williams

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Executive Summary On February 25th and 26th, 2017, the Lil’wat Nation hosted a gathering on Lil’wat Inherent Rights and Title (Session Two) at the Ullus Community Centre. 46 Lil’wat Nation citizens participated which included 32 adults, 2 youth and 12 Chief and Councilors. The session was chaired by Chief Dean Nelson and Chief Operating Officer Ernest Armann. The gathering began with opening comments from Chris Robertson, Senior Associate with the CFNG who introduced fellow senior associate Satsan (Herb George). Chief Dean Nelson, welcomed everyone and shared his dream of the ancestors, the songs and our future. He started off with a song, welcoming all the drummers and dancers to join in. Councilor Martina Pierre provided an opening prayer. Chris Robertson, Senior Associate with the Centre for First Nations Governance (CFNG) followed with a review of the Agenda for Session Two (See appendix A). 1. A review of the January Session: What is the Inherent Right, The Indian Act; What is

Aboriginal Title and Section 35; What is the Self Government that arises out of our Legal Cases?; What does consultation and accommodation mean and the new Government to Government Relationship.

2. A comprehensive introduction to the Five Pillars and Principles of Effective Self Government. 3. Community Gathering Exercise on the Five Pillars and Principles 4. An Inherent Right and Title Strategy 5. Community Gathering Exercise on the Inherent Right and Title Strategy

The session provided participants with considerable information on Lil’wat Nation’s title to its territory and the rights and jurisdiction its citizens have to govern their land and themselves in accordance with their own vision. Participants actively engaged in exercises to discuss these matters and propose ideas and suggestions to moving their community well beyond their current circumstances. The following report and attached appendixes presents information provided by the CFNG facilitators and the feedback from the participants who attended the session.

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OUR PATH FORWARD: (DAY ONE - FEBRUARY 25TH, 2017)

Overview Satsan provided an overview of the material and information covered from the January community gathering session. (See January 2017 Report) Indian Act

Took us off our land

Made us dependent

Oppressed us

Cultural Genocide

Assimilation

Outlawed our governments

Residential schools

Powerless, hopelessness, helplessness

Wards of Crown

No legal status

And capacity (don’t have rights as a people)

Don’t own land Indigenous Lil’wat Title/Rights

Legal right in the land itself

The right to choose how you use the land (governance)

The right to use the Land at our own discretion (governance)

Our land has an inescapable economic component

We have territorial authority Self Government and Legal Cases:

The landmark decisions rendered by the Courts over the past 30 years belong to everyone. Not just the Nisga’a, Haida, Gitsxan and Wet’suwet’en etc. but to all First Nations across this country.

Delgamuukw/Gisday’wa was a foundational Supreme Court decision that today the successes of many cases are derived from.

These decisions have set out how the Crown is to deal with First Nations and implicitly how First Nations are to deal with the Crown.

The Courts have implied that it’s about a new relationship with First Nations and that it recognizes the existence of our title and rights under the law.

S.35 Constitution Act 1982

Our former leaders fought hard to have Sec. 35 put in to the Canadian constitution to protect our rights from being violated by the government.

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Sec 35 has proven to be a very powerful protection of our rights and has provided us with the opportunity to restore and rebuild our own systems of governance, jurisdiction and return us to our lands.

So Lil’wat title/rights, as we define them, are protected by S.35 of the constitution. It includes our Inherent Right to Self-government

First Nations are a third order of Government in Canada.

Government-Government-Government (First Nations-Federal-Provincial)

Section 35 is a full box of rights…Lil’wat rights as we define them.

The holders of those rights are the only ones that can determine what those rights are.

Our rights are collective, not individual. Only the citizens of a nation can decide how those rights are used and what can be done with them. No group or individual can decide what happens with our rights unless we mandate them to.

So what does this all mean?

We have an Inherent right of self-government to govern ourselves. We have a legal right in the land. We:

Have regained our jurisdiction over Lands and Resources

Can create and participate in an economy.

Can develop Nation-to-Nation relationships

Have a new era

Have protection of Section 35 as a full box of rights

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So what does this all look like?

Under the Canadian Constitution the powers of authority fall under Sections 35, Section 91 and section 92.

Lil’Wat Gov’t S.35: Jurisdiction & Protection. - The right to develop own laws

-The right to develop own policies

Canada BC Section 91 Section 92

The right to develop certain laws and policies

Consultation Negotiations Gov’t to Gov’t

Conflict/Disagreement in Laws/Policies and

Jurisdiction

LIL’WAT NATION’s OWN LAWS and POLICIES

FED/PROV LAWS

POLICIES

Accommodation What does Lil”Wat want? What relationship does it

want with the Crown?

Negotiate between conflicting laws and policies to reach….

AGREEMENT!

RECONCILIATION GOV’T to GOV’T

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Satsan, Senior Associate, (CFNG) reviewed the Five Pillars and Principles to Effective Self Government in detail (Appendix B). Following Satsan’s review, Chris Robertson, Senior Associate of the CFNG provided participants with a Community Gathering Exercise Participants were organized into working groups and provided their feed back on the Five Pillars and Principles.

1. The People

Citizens made up government

Leaders

Teachers

Warriors

Rights holders

Strong families/clans….

Spiritually strong

Principles/values

Sacred ceremonies

Clear roles/responsibilities

Language medicine/healers

Protocols

Culture/traditions

Child welfare

Supported our own births

Balance/harmony

Arts/entertainment

Holders/keepers of history

Caretakers of our territories

Recognition/respect for each other and the land

2. The Land

Territorial (all of it)

Used the lands & resources

Governed

Protected

Transformers

Natural & beautiful

Bountiful

Spirit in the land

Organized land use

Managed our activity on Land

Oral histories all of our lands are named

We’ve been on our lands since creation

We are connected to the land-obligations

Skel7awlh/Twit

Used all our lands, trails, technology

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Depended on Land

Infrastructure

Seasonal places/use

3. Laws and Jurisdiction

Laws/judiciary

Enforced

Trespass laws

Regulations/policies

Protocol

Natural law

Rule of law

Boundaries

Unique land holding

Human rights

Covenants

4. Governance (Institutions)

Nxekmen

Clan System

Family Head

Government - Government Relations

Leaders, clear roles & responsibilities overall

N’takmen

Dictated by means to survive

People First

Transparent/accountable

5. Resources

Lands: used the resources to look after yourselves

Trade/trade language

Economies

Sustainable Kúítsám

Laws, regulations/policies, principles/values

Taught not to be greedy, don’t take too much and don’t be stingy

Knew when and how to use resources

Food and medicines

History/language/traditions

Land is our culture

Gifts of the land “not resources”

Sustainable land use

Restoration

People-Leaders

Specialists

Healers

Warriors

Watchmen

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Teachers

Roles & Responsibilities

Midwives

Herbalists

Story tellers

Knowledge keepers

Hunters/fishers

Food gathers

Fire makers

Clans/family heads had specific responsibilities

Communicators

Toolmakers/weavers

Spiritual connection

Taught our people everything about land

Knowledge handed down

Prophets

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PILLAR #1: PEOPLE

Meaningful Information Sharing o Engagement

Cultural events Sports activities Sharing food/eating together

Rites of passage

Quarterly seasonally appropriate activities on the Land

Stories/legends that go with the activity and place

Strategic Vision

Rites of Passage

Language Classes

Hands on activities

Bring Back Our Laws - cit’leqam

Themed language - phrases practiced

Cultural Calendar for Community

Scheduled days to share gifts eg. Carving, story telling etc…

Be Responsible for your Role & Responsibilities

MORE SIGNIFICANCE TOWARD NT’AKMEN

Ullus Set time to have an open area for Lil’wat Place People to practice Fish Camp Culture without expense Skalula Men’s group; Women’s group Ts’zil Youth and Elders Bring couples/family group

Protocols Leadership Teachings Shared Knowledge

Seasonal Feasts Discuss protocol History Stories Processes Practices

Mandatory until common practice

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Decision Making

Who is a citizen [re defined by Lil’wat]

Bloodline -with exceptions

Not

Symbol for practicing cultural protocol

Following traditions

Wear proudly in community

Five Feathers to Knowledge Keeper

Matrilineal Participation

Matrimonial Integrity Family head (system)

Responsibilities

Roles

Clarify Protocols

Separate introduced protocols from Lil’wat protocols

Inform and practice Lil’wat nxekmen

Elders not by age, by respect When is informed sharing reached?

Ownership, accountability Sense of Quality, Pride, Belonging

Healthy demeanor towards R & R

People - Summary Guided by our Creator and Ancestors, Lil’wat will learn and live Nt’akmen through our traditional ways of knowing, to respect and trust one another.

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PILLAR #2: THE LAND Territorial Integrity:

(Holistic) written laws & regulations that includes spiritual protocols *.

Strengthen communication now!

Ceremonies to acknowledge what we take from the land

Connect to our land, walk the lands *

Learn the traditional names and uses of our land

N’takmen lhKalha

All citizens (Lilwat) assert title

Continues teaching about connection to the Land and the sources

Hunting, harvesting, weaving

Traditional practices & protocols (taught & practiced)

“Sustainability” Traditional practices

Condition ourselves to our rights to govern ourselves

De-colonize

Dependency to independent by learning traditional practice

Celebrate & recognize traditional roles

Our own calendar for land use

Boundaries understood & taught

Monuments on the lands

Gender practices & places for specific times or teachings

Sacred places recognized and named

Develop a land use plan with the people, evaluate and update regularly

Work with neighbors on protocols and land use planning for overlap areas and boundaries and spiritual places

Economic Realization:

Seasonal harvesting 0 timing was taught and important

Develop book and texts of our land and ways

Update land use plan

Manage bike areas, Joffre

Respect for the Spirit of the Land

Our own calendar or season laws

Recognition & belief of the spirit of the land

Oral history passed down

How nature spoke to us Respect for the Spirit of the land:

Manage and protect our lands and harvesting areas (use to burn areas for our huckleberries)

Create more opportunities to bring people out on the land

Healing practices on the land resources

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*Assessment of our lands today needs to be done to determine our future use and management, including infrastructure, future fish camps and berry picking and other harvesting areas

Restoring fish habitat and others

Future housing and village sites

Restoring the protection of sacred sites, and the traditional laws taught on why/or explained ore create that sacred space

Work with neighbors nations to develop boundary line and protocols for overlap

Traditional boundary markings Land Summary:

Lil’wat Land Laws & Regulations written.

Connect to our Lands

Assessment of our lands to determine our future use and management, including infrastructure, future fish camps & berry picking etc.….

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PILLAR #3: LAWS & JURISDICTION

Clearly Defining & Understanding our N’takmen muta7 N’xekmin

Create

Lil’wat Rule of Law “People”

Teach, Practice, Share

Research the work that was already completed/recorded and Educate the Findings

Revive our Culture & Language there in lies Our Morales & Values

Individual

1. Accountability to Ourselves

2. Raise Community Standards

Hear from Our Knowledge Keepers on How they Interpret Living our Ways

Creators of a New Direction

3. Lil’wat is Going to be Empowered

Family Head - “Vital”

The Importance to carry on!!

4. Living In Your Purpose (Elder is not an Age)

“Not to go with your Cousin”

Expansion of jurisdiction

Empower our Human Resources

Enhance our HR Capacity

Re-establish Stewardship throughout our Territory

Share the Knowledge

“Communicate”

Expansion of Jurisdiction

Rule of Law

Traditional Knowledge needs to be protected

We will follow our own Natural Law

Restorative Justice System

Train Our Future Leaders

Enforcing Our N’xekmin

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PILLAR #4 RESULTS BASED ORGANIZATION (INSTITUTIONS)

Helps to move people towards its Lil’wat Vision

Educate ourselves on what this means

Participate and develop the vision (people) ASAP – All Levels of understanding

Teach our kids in our school about Lil’wat Vision & Goals & our ways (Nt’akmen)

Communicate Purpose

Develop a lifelong continuum of development strategy for Lil’wat7ul

Capacity build leadership & workers for change

Incorporate evaluation framework Cultural Alignment We need to identify what values we want/need to infuse (practices & beliefs)

Relationship with mother earth

Traditional knowledge & history

Language is central to our connection to land& spirit

Answer the phone Ucwalmicwts part of immersion

Nt’akmen protocols

Task org’s to implement Vision into operations, programs, services & incorporate ceremony

Need our own laws to be developed to Govern our actions Transparency & Fairness

Adopt policy Gov. publicize

Conflict of interest

Tell people what we do, how we are going to do it, tell them when it’s done and tell them when you did not do it & why

Clarify process & procedures

Nt’akmen Protocols

Reciprocal accountability with the people / both ways

Need to communicate to all levels of understanding

Capacity & boundaries

Understanding / balance

Communicate / acct. back down our Gov’t structure (family/clans) Inter-Governmental

Create L.N. Govt. First with the People (Structure & Levels - Hierarchy)

Determine effective decision making for ourselves – Est. Standards

Awareness between Govt-Govt-Govt

Skill Development our Leaders, Negotiations, Conflict Management

Nt’akmen protocols

JD Values & Principles and share

Research our practices bring best practices forward

Share these will all - good faith

Use Celebration to share accomplishments to show all.

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PILLAR #5 RESOURCES

Work with our neighboring first Nations

Education & career paths

Mentoring

Help our kids shine

Our language

Collaborations with our neighboring first Nations

Life skills

Strengthening families

“Financial management Capacity”

Invest in our selves

Evaluate ourselves

How we live our lives

How we learn Resources –Accountability & Reporting

Celebration

Acknowledgement

Recognition

Address issues thru Nt’akmen / Indian court & discussions with each other

Diversity of Revenue Sources

Own Source Revenues

Capture revenues & recycle within our Community

Grow our own economy

Promote entrepreneur Human Resource Capacity

Training to education

Capacity building

Culturally appropriate

Follow our values

Inventory of what we have, so we know what we don’t have

Product development

Partnerships between education institutes & Lil’wat Administration

Passion

Good communicators

Strong skills with ability to be effective

Database of what we have & what we need

Develop Lil’uatem strategy - what it means to be Lil’wat

Human Resource development plans

Vale ourselves and each others and workforce

Raise lawyers, doctors, etc..

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Acknowledge our own strengths

Respect each other’s

Plans for Lilwat nursery to Post Secondary to employment

Develop Leaders

Learn protocols when asking for services

Help us help ourselves

Succession planning

Recognition of the current Human Resources working for the Nation

Simple “Please & Thank You” to each other

Acknowledgement of employees that do good job

Share the wealth of the work

Change from disable to ABLE

Financial Management Capacity

Accountability

Sustain the land

Law & policies to protect our resources

Long & short term management

Measurable

Annual assessment & evaluations

Audit

Acknowledge & celebrate our Financial Administration Law and understand it

5-year budget plans including strategic plans

Own source revenues

Community involvement in planning

Transparency & accountability

Develop a financial management & strategy that contributes to our community

Develop a vision of Healthy Community & work towards

We are very aware of the obstacles, how do we over come those? Diversity of Revenue Sources

Entrepreneurship

Strategically plan on how four people can strive on their own

Restoration to continue on sustainability

Build our own economy

Keep the financial resource within Lil’wat

Partnerships & agreements with others directly / internationally

Generate our own funds

Increase our use of our traditional medicines & reduce our dependency of mainstream Canada

Alternative electrical sources

Geothermal

More independent businesses, less Band Office

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Performance Evaluation

Celebrate our successes with community

Acknowledge the lessons learned

Tie our successes tour history

Be accountable with each others, including community

Share & make all policies public

Ensure mentoring programs

Job shadowing

Create a qualifications process that we can all strive for

Evaluate Projects ie. ULHP its checks and balances

Evaluate every stream of funds we receive are funds meeting our needs?

Create a needs assessment

Call upon learning institutes that reflect our education and training needs and direction

Closing The session concluded at 4:00 pm. Satsan (Herb George) and Chris Robertson provided closing remarks. The session would continue tomorrow morning Sunday, February 26th, 2017 at 9:30 am.

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OUR PATH FORWARD: (DAY TWO - FEBRUARY 26TH, 2017)

Satsan provided an in introduction and review of the Centre for First Nations Governance, “A

FRAMEWORK FOR AN ABORIGINAL TITLE AND INHERENT GOVERNANCE

RIGHT STRATEGY” (Appendix C) Following Satsan’s review, Chris Robertson, provided participants with a Community Gathering Exercise based on a draft work plan that accompanies the Strategy. Participants circulated among seven tables and were encouraged to provide their feedback. Each table was designated for a particular strategy within the framework. The following represents the input provided by participants.

Relationship with the people

Doing workshops like this (simplify it)

Going to the peoples comfort zone by providing this workshop with the resource contact (i.e. health centre) at the health centre.

Establish a base

Address the people concerns

We are a member of Human Rights

Lil’wat Rights (we have to share)

Being respectful

Family teach Lil’wat Protocols

Language

Culture

Spirituality

Hunting Gathering Ceremony

Creation - we are

Creator

Land Ancestry (i.e. Family Tree)

We are All Equals

Equality of Human Rights

Everybody Counts

Opinions Count

Purpose

1. ORGANIZE WITH A CLEAR VISION, CONSISTENT GOALS AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

(page 13 of Framework)A strategy must be clearly developed, understood and implemented with clear purposes in mind. It works only if everyone whose interests it is designed to represent share it. The community and leadership must organize work together and have clear expectations about accountability, communications and mandates

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Is a learner

Is teacher

Everyone in this meeting needs to go home and start sharing at home

Keeping in mind 7th Generation

Declaration

Duty Communication

People to People (Face to Face)

Social Media

Information letter invite

Monthly update on the seven key tasks face to face (simplified) Lil’wat Title & Inherent Rights

Share a Traditional

Meal

Stories Be on the land

Ceremony

Honour recognition, gratitude, and

appreciation, teachings and acknowledgement

Family - all generations

Celebrate life stages

SPIRITUALITY

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1. Organizing with a Clear Vision

Foundation

Base - learning; teaching; sharing techniques

Practicing and learning our Lil’wat ways

Lil’wat Rights - equality - human right

Family - tech protocols

Pride

Organizing communication

Multi media

Social media informal invite - gatherings

Spirituality: Ceremony, stories, celebrate, family, acknowledgement

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Strategy Action 1. Develop or begin process of creating your own governance

Gather all fluent speakers to research history and tradition of Lil’wat Laws - record everything and translate later in English.

Gather evidence of the clans and restore the practice and knowledge in community, including how to update “modernize” ne clans if need be. This must be done by one side either maternal “mom” or paternal “dad”, you can’t go by both.

2. Devine what your nation considers to be acceptable practices of governance and jurisdiction.

Family head system researched and defined for the implementation of our Lil’wat Governance including how the clans played a role.

3. Negotiate taking over jurisdiction currently being undertaken by the Crown.

Update land-use plan using Lil’wat laws.

2. REALIZING SELF-GOVERNANCE (page 17)The Supreme Court of British Columbia has clearly said the S.35 of the Constitution protects the inherent right to self-government. First Nations do not need to prove this right nor do they need to negotiate this right with anyone. They need to implement it. The choices related to using the land and recourses are intricately connected inherent rights to choose to “what end” the “land can be put”. However, negotiating certain components of governance will be necessary such as the assumption of responsibilities currently being undertaken by the Crown such as housing, education, capital etc.

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*To communicate this process and all information gathered to the community. 1. Collect, organize document…

Land Use Plan: update/revise

Categorize evidence from Lil’wat research department.

Gather from past anthropologists, linguists, Curtis, bouchard, Elaine Obaswin, Leo Swaboda, Slim Fobeng (re: Paul Dick) [Pemberton Museum]

Compile, oral histories from community and collect

Elders, Georgina, Larry - trapping, Lloyd, Edwin Bikadi, Harry Dick-Land

Ucwalmicw Story: we were born form the belly button and when we die we go back to land (story told by a Bridge River elder, Charlie Mack and Baptiste Ritchie documentaries stories

Research what resources…Forestry, Energy, IPP, Province, Tourism, Fisheries, Farming, Transportation

2. Muleqs-LizzieBay 50/50

MDA-Whistler Blackcomb

Upper Lillooet - IBA

Murphy Construction

SLCC 3. BC Hydro, Highways, Cn, Lillooet river Monitoring, Airport, Golf Courses, 1947 Dredging of

Lillooet Lake - Re: for farmlands, Loss of King Fish story 4. Prepare for Judicial Review Take Control of:

Resource extraction permits are handled by outside agencies for Fishing & Hunting, Harvesting

Compile all:

Government permit regulations are not ours.

Evidence of oral histories to prove we were living Nt’akmen and here from time immemorial.

3. FORMULATING A PROACTIVE LEGAL STRATEGY (page 15 of framework) A proactive legal strategy can set up a drive the aboriginal and inherent rights strategy. First Nations no longer need to prove aboriginal title in order for governments to be legally obligated to consult on and accommodate the rights and interests of a First Nation. Despite the legal obligations that governments are now obligated to follow, industry too would be foolish to disregard consulting with First Nations and accommodating their interests rather then have government do it for them. Being ready to litigate will compel and motivate governments and industry to be more serious about consultation and accommodation. It is a tool that ensures negotiations stay productive opportunities are realized. A “judicial review” is a strategy that merits attention and requires the First Nation to organize its evidence and research.

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Have our own laws - written in our language

Multi-level -spiritual-our use-economical-LUP

Publically accessible

Internet

Strategic alliances made.

Trained negotiators, with, multi-level networking contacts.

Use of the five resource pillars: o People o Land o Laws & Jurisdiction o Institutions o Resources

Experience is identified and give duty

Know your enemy

Resources are identified o Spiritually o Socially o $ Value o Cultural alignment helps to ensure results (social & spiritual values)

People

Remember the laws to be written

Develop laws

Sharing stories (History)

Education

Experience is identified and given duty Land

Pro-active in land use plan Values

Water

Spiritual

4. Formulating a Political strategy (Page 14 of Framework)

A successful political strategy must be two pronged using both negotiation and litigation. It requires a First Nation to be well organized. Negotiations will be more successful if government’s sees that litigation is a viable threat. First Nations with well-developed political strategies are less likely to have to litigate. Politically, it is strategic to:

1. Negotiate at more then one table. 2. Negotiate beyond government with other third party interests and; 3. Define in advance what a First Nation considers to be “consultation

and accommodation” A good political strategy will have First Nation actively and visibly exercise their rights on the ground.

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Medicinal

Food source: hunting, fishing

Tools: baskets, snowshoes, knapping Laws & Jurisdiction

Our law written in ucwalmicts

Our neighbors negotiators identified and terms made

Know your opposition’s laws Institution (Governance)

How each institution is affected

Let our own laws govern/develop our institutions

Cultural alignment helps to ensure results (social & spiritual values)

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We are the Ucwalmicw Tmicw

Taking over our Natural Resources

Develop our own Lil’wat Environment Assessment

Traditional Place name Signage “throughout”

Education

Change the current Referral Process o Fluent speakers o Discuss & record a Lilwat Land use Plan

Spiritual Education Economic Development Approval on the translation into English Overlap areas. Work together

Expansion of Land Use (of the People)

Fishing Berry Picking

Pictographs

Where they are

What they represent

How long they were there

What is the Lil’wat term for “Steward Ship?”

The Lil’wt World of – read Charlie Mack

Publish Texts

On the stories

Pictographs

Stories

Laws

Processes

Regulation

Work together with othr First Nations to protect our resources

Fish

Water

Acc

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5. TERRITORIAL STEWARDSHIP (page 17)The proper accommodation and protection of aboriginal lands and resources cannot be achieved unless a land or territorial stewardship plan is developed. Consistently applied and widely understood and published by the First Nation. The plan must include the Nation’s vision of the protection and uses of it lands for cultural, social, spiritual and economic purposes. The objective is t o ensure that any consultation and accommodation agreement is harmonized with the First Nations stewardship plan.

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Put our territorial boundaries and specific – foot print etc. Blacktusk

Undo territory (treaty exaggeration)

Place names

Put up territory signs on highway

Lilwat

Nation to Nation (Ucwalmicw) Gov’t to Gov’t to Gov’t Business to Lil’wat Nation, Municipalities to Lil’wat Nation

Abide by Lil’wat protocol: People; Land; Culture; Community; Leadership

Decisions by the people, with the people, for the people

Understanding our intellectual rights in relation to our history and nt’akmen ti tmicwa

As the Ucualmicw Tiicw, Implement Consultation and Accommodation Processes for all our resources “Ama t’siL has”

6: Implement a Consultation and Accommodation Strategy. (Page 16)The Crown has a legal obligation to consult on and accommodate your Aboriginal title & rights. Industry has a wise business obligation to do the same. First Nations are also legally obligated to address existing and potential infringements through well-organized and meaningful consultation and negotiation processes. First Nations must control those processes but only if they have determined in advance what those processes are to be and what their reasonable expectations are.

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Gun sight, Windy Valley

Place names

Sharing sacred sites amongst Lil’wat, burial grounds

Mount Currie )Ts’zil)

Where the water flows - all rivers flow into Lil’wat, natural

Palal T’sem Ullus

CLOSING: The session closed off at 4 pm with final remarks by Chris Robertson, Satsan and Chief Dean Nelson.

The next session is scheduled for March 25 and 26th 2017 at 9:30. Participants are asked to encourage family and friends to attend the two-day session and help contribute to Lil’wat’s Path Forward.

7: RESPECT THE SPIRIT IN THE LAND

An aboriginal title and inherent rights strategy must be anchored directly to your laws, traditions, customs and practices of the First Nation. The spirit of such ties will drive any strategies that are to be effective and appropriate.