People sometimes ask me why @SquamishNation controls zoning heights for development on our Sen̓áḵw lands and not the City of Vancouver.

For the same reason the City of Burnaby doesn’t control zoning in Coquitlam:

Different jurisdictions. Federal and Provincial lands enjoy similar privileges, they just have to negotiate service agreements to provide municipal-like services to those lands.

They have often opted into following the City’s rules, but they don’t legally have to.

Did you know that the construction of nearly 6,000 new purpose-built rental apartments at Sen̓áḵw (with 20% at below-market rents) is underway in Vancouver?

@SquamishNation leaders visited for a site tour day, and I recorded some updates for you: Phase 1 of 4 has started with excavation for site preparation for infrastructure.

Phase 2 of 4 will start excavation sometime this year.

"If we don't have babies, the colonizers win" is an insight that doesn't consider trans women, trans men, non-binary, queer, and two-spirit Indigenous Peoples (and also leaves out some cis women). Many Indigenous Peoples, like trans women, trans men, non-binary, queer, two-spirit, and some cis women, cannot or will not have biological children.

BREAKING: Squamish Nation demands immediate moratorium of old-growth logging in its territory
squamish.net/old-growth/ On June 10, the Squamish Nation formally gave notice to the Province of B.C. to defer old-growth logging for two years in the Nation’s 690,000 hectares while the Nation develops long-term sustainability plans.

The @jjhorgan government’s position on old growth is offensive and ignorant of what UNDRIP and Indigenous Rights really mean. BC Government leaders and staffers are wrongly insinuating that people are "demanding government overrule titleholders" who "want to log old-growth in their territory".

This is an ignorant red herring argument to undermine free, prior, and informed consent.

On Missing Children and Burial Information, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had six Calls-to-Action which have not yet been completed.

Here are the six: 71. We call upon all chief coroners and provincial vital
statistics agencies that have not provided to the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission of Canada their
records on the deaths of Aboriginal children in the
care of residential school authorities...

Did you know that today is the 97 year anniversary of the founding of the @SquamishNation?

THREAD On July 23rd, 2023, a majority of the adult males and the designated ’chiefs’ of several Squamish "Indian Bands’ signed a petition to the Federal government requesting all of the signed ’bands’ be amalgamated into a single ’Indian Band’ called the Squamish Nation.

Who are the "Coast Salish"?

Here’s a thread. "Coast Salish" is an anthropologist & linguistic designation for a collection of Indigenous peoples who speak a language that is connected to the "Coast Salish" language family.

Think Romance languages with Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, etc.