Treaty 8 First Nations have had to watch ancestral lands dug up for the future reservoir of the troubled #SiteC dam. To grasp the sheer size of that needless reservoir, a photo essay. Here is one of the shipping container huts full of archaelogical artefacts.. #bcpoli #bcelxn2020 
Inside are bankers boxes - tens of thousands of them - full of artefacts dug up during #SiteC work. Box after box after box. They're being held by BC Archaeology Branch. I was sent these photos by a friend; these are his ancestral lands. What are we doing, BC? #bcpoli #bcelxn2020
..Shipping containers and bankers boxes full to the brim with a people's history and culture. The scale of the disruption is staggering. And it's all for a dam we did not need, & whose alternatives are cheaper & would not have violated Indigenous or Treaty rights. #SiteC #bcpoli
..What is not included in these photos from #SiteC are the more intangible traces of contemporary sacred places, places which, until they were recently destroyed, were still in use by First Nations in the Peace Valley. No more should be destroyed. #bcpoli theglobeandmail.com/news/british-c…
..That's the word that came to me too: horrific. #SiteC #bcpoli
https://twitter.com/clarewxy/status/1313249101979426818
A note on this archaeology: much of it was done by +/or with assistance of local First Nations & some will be housed with them. The point is not that it was done without them; it's that an unstoppable 100% unneeded megaproject was rammed thru desp opposition & this was the result
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