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At what price ‘white man’s money’? (The Globe and Mail)

Each spring, Art Sterritt and his family gather at his wife's ancestral home among B.C.'s Gitga'at people to harvest seaweed, clams and cockles on the shores of Hartley Bay near Kitimat...

18 July, 2009

Fear that iwi could charge for surf events (The New Zealand Herald)

Giving Maori title over the seabed and foreshore could result in charges for commercial recreational activities, such as surfing or surfcasting competitions, says a controversial legal academic...

14 July, 2009

Property rights: the Nisga’a pave the way (The Globe and Mail)

A historic conversation is occurring on a section of “Indian country” in northwestern British Columbia. First nations people of the Nisga'a territory are evaluating legislation that may soon allow individual Nisga'a to own private land they can transfer to whomever they wish, Nisga'a or non-Nisga'a...

08 July, 2009