First Nations in Canada

But I sort of took that as, yes, there is another consequence of the snap election.

The New Democrats... may have had, to their satisfaction, by the way, some kind of fix for DRIPA that they were working on with First Nations.

They should have told us.

Like, they kept us in the dark.

We've got Global News posting this.

BC First Nations chief warns ripping up DRIPA is a declaration of war.

On the campaign trail, the BC Conservatives have repeatedly said repealing DRIPA was a top priority.

Now that the party is forming a majority government, First Nation groups are warning that can't happen.

Our community was very diverse.

We had a lot of French, we had a lot of Scottish people, a lot of Germans, you know, a lot of First Nations.

We had a lot of cousins in town and everybody had a bad nickname for everybody.

But we all played the same sports.

And that was wonderful working with Teddy in 2014, but I kind of fell in love with just being a stay at home dad.

So I just, uh, my own doing, but I got to do a lot of other things that I probably wouldn't have done.

Um, a lot of, um, First Nations stuff, a lot of community stuff, a lot of NHL alumni stuff that was really kind of gnawing at me anyway and kind of getting involved with a lot of that stuff and old teammates and seeing friends and family and that kind of stuff.

It's hard not to fall in love with that stuff, being at home every day with your kids.

Indigenous people are being assimilated.

A federal law passed in 2019 recognizes First Nations, Inuit and Métis people's inherent right to govern child and family services for their own children.

Chief Fred Tsangris notes this legal pathway to take control of CFS.

Norwich Territory needs to let go and let the Indigenous people decide for themselves what's best for them on a child welfare initiative.

Forge ahead in case you can go ahead and go and apply for child welfare on our own.

Premier R.J. Simpson doesn't push back.

Instead, he agrees with the delegates and says the authority already belongs to First Nations.

Coordination agreement between governments, so that's something negotiated and we're happy to support along the way as was happened with being invalid.

It wasn't the Bay Area that we're in now where there's lots of paths to explore.

But how it actually showed up for me is I spent some time in the First Nations community and really immersed in more shamanic traditions of people who were really immersing themselves in their body and their connection to the land and the spiritual portal, if you will, the doorway of nature and awareness, again, of something bigger than ourselves, that that was the first doorway in.

And I loved that.

The dimensionality of that, it's not, it wasn't just about the mind, but it was about deep time.

It was about our connection to some, to the land and something bigger than ourselves.

So my first like steps into the world beyond the kind of traditional path.

was through First Nations and shaman practice actually.

Wow.

and so it's an idea of when we're thinking about this we really need to think about how cultural loss can be as damaging as population loss and it's really difficult to restore once it's gone because it's not like these people you know pulled a whale from alaska to go and teach the canadian whales to do it we can't interfere in that way you just have to hope that they chat over some time um also another thing this is it's the similar part of the world to my first story.

But I, again, want to really mention that this research was heavily, heavily led by the First Nations people in Canada, specifically the Gitka First Nation people, not only for the access to the fjord system and the stewardship of these amazing animals, but without the traditional knowledge that bubble netting did not exist in this population before, none of this would matter because we wouldn't know that they'd lost it or that we could have learned it.

Yeah.

So...

A little bit of NRT for those of you that aren't from Saskatchewan and not involved in the nuclear industry.

We are a predominantly First Nations-owned trucking company, and so 71 percent community-owned, which gives us some advantages.

The other 21 percent is Trimat Transportation, so I thought I'd better acknowledge that.

The largest owner of NRT is the Lac La Ronge Indian Band.

Do I have my First Peoples Nations book behind me?

On the other shelf here, where's my First Nations book? I might have to look up the tribe.

We'll let him continue here.

I want to hear what the good medicine is.

There's no question of being in a lasting way addicted.

And the other thing I need to add is when these pathologies arose, after a time of experiencing these pathologies and realizing that terrible damage can be done by inebriated people, In case after case, First Nations take steps to do something about it collectively.

It starts in the East, in the 17th century, you know, where they had a longer experience with this.

And we see communities, for example... chasing rum vendors out of the community.