Gitanyow Nation Launches Defensive Stance Against Potential Transfer of Forestry License 16882
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星期四, 十二月 14, 2023
This forestry license, deeply intertwined with Gitanyow’s traditional lands, presents an unmistakable and high potential for substantial adverse impacts on Gitanyow’s rights.
Key Points:
- This forestry license, deeply intertwined with Gitanyow’s traditional lands, presents an unmistakable and high potential for substantial adverse impacts on Gitanyow’s rights.
- Despite a Cooperative Harvest Agreement previously in place with Gitanyow, SS's recent bankruptcy has put its assets, including FLA16882, in receivership.
- The Simigigyet’m Gitanyow (Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs) are an innovative, traditional Indigenous government mandated to protect Gitanyow Nation’s lands, resources, and laws.
- Gitanyow Nation is part of the larger Gitksan Nation, encompassing 6,200 square kilometres in the Nass and Skeena Watersheds (Kitwanga and Kispiox Rivers).