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Near-sinking barge off BC coast stokes fears over oil tanker threats
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Heiltsuk #Haíɫzaqv #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCCoast #OilTankerBan #MarineSafety #ClimateCrisis #Politics #Economy #CoastalProtection #OilAndGas #The14
https://the-14.com/near-sinking-barge-off-bc-coast-stokes-fears-over-oil-tanker-threats/

Near-sinking barge off BC coast stokes fears over oil tanker threats
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Heiltsuk #Haíɫzaqv #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCCoast #OilTankerBan #MarineSafety #ClimateCrisis #Politics #Economy #CoastalProtection #OilAndGas #The14
https://the-14.com/near-sinking-barge-off-bc-coast-stokes-fears-over-oil-tanker-threats/

Near-sinking barge off BC coast stokes fears over oil tanker threats
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Heiltsuk #Haíɫzaqv #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCCoast #OilTankerBan #MarineSafety #ClimateCrisis #Politics #Economy #CoastalProtection #OilAndGas #The14
https://the-14.com/near-sinking-barge-off-bc-coast-stokes-fears-over-oil-tanker-threats/

Near-sinking barge off BC coast stokes fears over oil tanker threats
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Heiltsuk #Haíɫzaqv #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCCoast #OilTankerBan #MarineSafety #ClimateCrisis #Politics #Economy #CoastalProtection #OilAndGas #The14
https://the-14.com/near-sinking-barge-off-bc-coast-stokes-fears-over-oil-tanker-threats/

Near-sinking barge off BC coast stokes fears over oil tanker threats
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Heiltsuk #Haíɫzaqv #BC #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCCoast #OilTankerBan #MarineSafety #ClimateCrisis #Politics #Economy #CoastalProtection #OilAndGas #The14
https://the-14.com/near-sinking-barge-off-bc-coast-stokes-fears-over-oil-tanker-threats/

A first child has been born in Bella Bella, on the Híɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation territory, in about 13 years.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heiltsuk-baby-born-heiltsuk-land-9.6937387
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Un premier enfant est né à Bella Bella, sur le territoire de la nation Híɫzaqv (Heiltsuk), en environ 13 ans.

// Article en anglais //

#Heiltsuk #BellaBella

Clean Up the Beach in #solidarity with #Heiltsuk Nation

June 8 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join RAVEN and #Surfrider for a World Oceans Day beach cleanup, where we’ll be fundraising for Heiltsuk Nation’s legal challenge that aims to protect #marine #ecosystems from coast to coast to coast.

This year, we’re choosing to engage in #community reciprocity not just for our own local #watersheds, but as an act of solidarity with Heiltsuk Nation, whose own beach cleanup — following the Nathan E. Stewart spill — is so much more complex.

So, come out to #CloverPoint in Victoria on Sunday, June 8, 2025 from 11am-1pm for a community-powered beach cleanup. Together we are aiming to fundraise $2,000 for Heiltsuk’s legal challenge on #WorldOceansDay.

https://raventrust.com/event/clean-up-the-beach-in-solidarity-with-heiltsuk-nation/

#YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #BeachCleanup #Volunteers #CommunityWork #Environmental

‘Historic referendum’: Heiltsuk Nation votes on written constitution https://globalnews.ca/news/11007261/heiltsuk-constitution-referendum/

#Heiltsuk #HeiltsukNation #IndigenousRights #IndigenousGovernance

‘Historic referendum’: Heiltsuk Nation votes on written constitution https://globalnews.ca/news/11007261/heiltsuk-constitution-referendum/

#Heiltsuk #HeiltsukNation #IndigenousRights #IndigenousGovernance

‘Historic referendum’: Heiltsuk Nation votes on written constitution https://globalnews.ca/news/11007261/heiltsuk-constitution-referendum/

#Heiltsuk #HeiltsukNation #IndigenousRights #IndigenousGovernance

‘Historic referendum’: Heiltsuk Nation votes on written constitution https://globalnews.ca/news/11007261/heiltsuk-constitution-referendum/

#Heiltsuk #HeiltsukNation #IndigenousRights #IndigenousGovernance

‘Historic referendum’: Heiltsuk Nation votes on written constitution https://globalnews.ca/news/11007261/heiltsuk-constitution-referendum/

#Heiltsuk #HeiltsukNation #IndigenousRights #IndigenousGovernance

Members of the #Heiltsuk Nation in #BellaBella are calling for immediate suspension & removal of an #RCMP officer stationed in the remote coastal community for reportedly making #racist comments on social media.

One screenshot shows the officer posing in front of the Union Jack in #colonial regalia with the comment, “Now, whats to be done about these pesky #natives stirring up trouble in the colonies…?”

https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/heiltsuk-nation-demands-removal-of-bella-bella-rcmp-officer-7364518

#BritishColumbia #SystematicRacism #BCpoli #CDNpoli #Indigenous

#Canada moves to protect #CoralReef that scientists say ‘shouldn’t exist’

Discovery was made after #FirstNations tipped off #ecologists about groups of fish gathering in a fjord off #BritishColumbia

by Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Fri 15 Mar 2024

"On the last of nearly 20 dives, the team made a startling discovery – one that has only recently been made public.

"'When we started to see the living corals, everyone was in doubt,' says Cherisse Du Preez, head of the deep-sea ecology program at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 'Then, when we saw the expansive fields of coral in front of us, everybody just let loose. There were a lot of pure human emotions.'

"Despite existing in absolute darkness, the lights of the submersible captured the rich pinks, yellows and purples of the #corals and #sponges.

"The following year, the team mapped #LopheliaReef, or #q̓áuc̓íwísuxv, as it has been named by the #Kitasoo Xai’xais and #Heiltsuk First Nations. It is the country’s only known living coral reef.

"The discovery marks the latest in a string of instances in which Indigenous knowledge has directed researchers to areas of scientific or historic importance. More than a decade ago, #Inuk oral historian Louie Kamookak compared #Inuit stories with explorers’ logbooks and journals to help locate Sir John Franklin’s lost ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. In 2014, divers located the wreck of the Erebus in a spot Kamookak suggested they search, and using his directions found the Terror two years later."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/canada-moves-to-protect-coral-reef-that-scientists-say-shouldnt-exist

#IndigenousWisdom #Environment #WaterIsLife #PacificOcean #DeepSeaEcosystems #NoDumping

Global News BC: ‘Koeye feels like home’: Heiltsuk land-based camp immerses youth in language and culture https://globalnews.ca/news/10015374/heiltsuk-culture-community-camp/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Indigenousculture #BCFirstNations #Indigenous #Heiltsuk #Canada