Many Things to Many People: Aboriginal forestry in Canada is looking toward balanced solutions

ID:	HARP-296
Title:	Many Things to Many People: Aboriginal forestry in Canada is looking toward balanced solutions
Source:	Cultural Survival Quarterly, Issue 17.1, http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/print/article_print.cfm?id=00000325-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
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Year:	1993
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Keywords:	Canada, culture, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, government, human rights, Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, civil and political rights, indigenous people, hunting, First Nations, forestry, minority rights, self-determination
Abstract:	Until recently, it was possible to envision Canada as an endless expanse of trees stretching from sea to sea. Today our forests are in jeorpardy. For the Algonquin Indians of Barrie Lake in Quebec, for the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en Nations in British Columbia, for the Nishnawabe-Aski Nation in Ontario, and for many other First Nations throughout Canada, forest management has become a synonym for community and cultural survival. For many of Canada’s aboriginal peoples, the forests are our home, our hunting grounds, our ceremonial lands. Forests have sustained and engaged us for centuries, but they are falling with unprecedented speed – at the hands of industry and due to short-sighted government policy. It is in this milieu of diminishing resources and increasingly entrenched interests that aboriginal forestry is unfolding.
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