Laurie Hamelin
APTN National News
The Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation in British Columbia is getting support from the Kamloops city council against a proposed mining development.
Earlier this year, the Nation conducted its own environmental assessment of a proposed copper and gold mine. It called for an open pit mine that would be built on Pipsell, their sacred land near Jacko Lake in the Kamloops area.
‘As long as it is responsible, as long as they have our input into it we’re not against all different things,” said Jeanette Jules, Tkemlups Councillor & Secwepemc Knowledge Keeper.” “There are just some areas too sacred, too holy to destroy.”
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HI Julia! Thanks for your good coverage of fires & effect on First Nations homelands & rightful inheritance. That aside, I want to know how many First Nations are taking prov & fed gov to the Hague for crimes against humanity: Land theft. Stolen generations of children. Gov-designed & funded Religious Apartheid.
Thanks for reading my message.
Thats good news.