----- forwarded message ----- Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:28:34 +0200 From: secr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Appeal for support from Native Youth Movement... ----- forwarded message ----- Subject: [ndn-aim] RPT: appeal for support from Native Youth Movement... Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:56:58 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE SEND WHERE U CAN AND SUPPORT OUR YOUTH IN STOPPING THE EXPLOITATION OF OUR TRADITIONAL 'UNCEDED' TERRITORY. WE ARE AWARE THAT THERE IS A MEDIA BLACKOUT ON THIS SITUATION, WE NEED TO LET OUR PEOPLES KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON....STOP THE DEVELOPMENT OF SKI RESORTS WHICH IS THE PLAYGROUND FOR THE RICH. WE WILL NOT LET THEM TAKE AWAY WHAT IS OUR INHERENT RIGHT; WHEN THEY TAKE THE LAND AWAY; THEY ARE TAKING AWAY OUR LIFESTYLE, OUR FOODS, OUR CULTURE, OUR WAY OF LIFE AND TEACHINGS, OUR FUTURE AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN'S FUTURE. STOP THE DEVELOPMENT OF MELVIN CREEK (SUTIKALH) AND SHUSWAP TERRITORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN SOLIDARITY , NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT ....................... MEDIA ADVISORY BRITISH COLUMBIA ASSETS AND LANDS CORPORATION OFFICE OCCUPATION Native Youth, Elders and Land-Users protest provincial and federal involvement in illegal sales of Aboriginal Title Lands (Kamloops, Secwepemc Territory/May 23, 2001) At 10 am this morning Native Youth, Elders and Land-Users occupied the British Columbia Assets and Lands Corporation Office at 145 3rd Street in Kamloops, BC. We are demanding: An end to all sales of "crown land" on the Territories of Indigenous Nations A halt to all land tenures and land license agreements A halt all ski resort development Recognition of the Right of Indigenous Nations to govern our own lands and resources. Our protest is directed at both the provincial and federal governments for their failure to implement and recognize the inherent and legal right of Indigenous Nations to their Traditional Territories. In 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada's Delgamuukw decision confirmed that our Aboriginal Title and Rights are protected by section 35 of the Constitution Act 1982. In spite of this, the Canadian government refuses to recognize, affirm and implement Aboriginal Title, and British Columbia continues to assume 100% jurisdiction over lands and resources on the Territories of the 23 Indigenous Nations in British Columbia. Both the provincial and federal government continue to ignore our legal property rights to our Indigenous Territories. As a provincial crown company, British Columbia Assets and Land Corporation must radically change its policies to recognize and implement our Aboriginal Title and Rights. Both the provincial and federal governments must uphold their own laws in respect to Aboriginal Rights and Title. BC and Canada must stop violating our Human Rights and stop the theft of our homelands. This is basic human justice and we, the Native Youth, Elders and Land-Users, will accept nothing less. Media Contact: Name Ph. #s .......................... NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT Secwepemc Chapter PRESS RELEASE BCALC Escalates Situation by Seeking an Injunction Against NYM (Kamloops, Secwepemc Territory/May 24, 2001) The B.C. Assets & Lands Corporation has gone to court seeking an injunction against our peaceful occupation of the Crown Corporation’s Kamloops office. We are presently waiting for the results of the court proceedings. .We are demanding: An end to all sales of "crown land" on the Territories of Indigenous Nations A halt to all land tenures and land license agreements A halt all ski resort development Recognition of the Right of Indigenous Nations to govern our own lands and resources. We are calling on all of our supporters, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, to get ready for more political actions. - 30 - FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Amanda Soper Cell: (250) 572-1126, or (250) 572-2327 Nicole Manuel, Spokespersons To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to this group,send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived on line at: http://www.eScribe.com FREE LEONARD PELTIER
