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Gathering Place First Nations Canadian News
ALERT
October
11, 2002
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Government of Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development We are the families of the Somena Nation and allied families. We who sign this document ask
that the Government of Canada recognize us as a separate nation and stop
treating us as part of the Cowichan Indian Band, also known as the
"Cowichan Tribes."
Part I Reasons for our
Request
History of
Independence
Although we are natives of the
Cowichan Valley and are sometimes called "Cowichans," the Cowichan peoples
are traditionally not one nation, but seven nations. Those seven nations
are the Somena,
Comiaken, Quamichan, Clemclemaluts, Khenipsen, Koksilah, and Kilpahlas. This is why the Cowichan Indian Band calls itself the "Cowichan Tribes" and lists Somena and the other nations on its official emblem. Even though the Chief and Council of the Cowichan Indian Band lists the name of our nation on its emblem, we have never agreed to be ruled by the Chief and Council or to be part of the Cowichan Indian Band and we insist on being independent of them. FOR THE REST OF THIS STORY
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