#kwagiulth — Public Fediverse posts
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Leading the fish farms out of BC waters flotilla:
#Laichwiltach hereditary Chief Tsahaukuse (George Quocksister Jr.).
https://www.nationalobserver.com/podcast/salmon-people/occupationhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laich-kwil-tach
Chiefs who came to support:
#Homalco Hereditary & Council Chief Darren Blaney (Married to MP Rachel Blaney).
https://www.homalco.com/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-landslide-science-tsunami-earthquake-1.6075933
Bill Wilson(Kwak'wala name, Puglaas) hereditary Chief of the #Musgamgw #Tsawataineuk & part of Laich-kwil-tach, which are part of the #Kwagiulth & #Kwakwakawakw First Peoples. Married to 2nd wife, Bev Sellars, a Chief of the #Xatsull First Nation. Father of Jody Wilson-Raybould, lawyer & former MP. Bill was the first Indigenous BC Chief to travel to Ottawa to meet Prime Minister Trudeau (Pierre) to negotiate & draft 1st & only amendment to Canada's constitution in 1982(Section 35).
He helped found BC First Nations Congress, which led to creation of BC Treaty Commission (signed by Wilson, Harcourt & Mulroney).https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wilson_(chief)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakw
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsawataineuk_First_Nation
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jody-wilson-raybould-reconciling-history-1.7364336
#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #IndigenousSovereignty #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCTreatyCommission #BrokenPromises #BrokenTreaties #IndigenousRights #DemandMPAs
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CW: Indigenous traumas - triggers
Met Bill & wife in Campbell River 2.5 years ago, on small wild salmon flotilla to protest fish farms in Discovery Islands. He told me about this Ottawa trip:
'It was 40 years ago, #Kwagiulth (#Kwakwakawakw ) #HereditaryChief Bill Wilson (Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla), and father of Canada’s first #Indigenous #AttorneyGeneral , #JodyWilsonRaybould (Puglaas), helped #negotiate and #draft the first #amendment to #Canada ’s then-new #constitution .