A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 7, 1999

From front

Treaty
talks

“We can’t have jurisdic-
tional regimes that leaves
who’s in control unclear,’’

Other Tsimshian proposals
that will be contentious are
their sugeestion that a share
of municipal and regional
district property taxes col-
lected in their territory go to
the Tsimshian government,

That was just part of a list
of financial. transfers they
want under a (realy.

They're also seeking:

@ Compensation for his-
toric removal of ‘resources
and use of the land.

@ A cash treaty settle-
ment.

@ Training money to
prepare the Tsimshian for
ihe jobs of governing them-
selves. :

@ An agreement to share
resource royalty revenue,
even on arcas outside their
core lands.

WA stream of money to
help implement the treaty
over 20 years.

The Kitselas and Kitsum-
kalum bands are working
jointly on treaty negotia-
tions now.

They’re the two inland
bands of the seven Tsim-
shian villages. The rest are
around Prince Rupert and
further south along the
coast,

The southern village of
Kitasoo has also made a
proposal on lands in that
area, and the other villages
are to also present land and
resources proposals,

Clarification

DARCY FISHER is an
engineer for Canadian
Helicopters, not Northern
Helicopters, as indicated in
a caption of a photograph of
flooding published June 30,
1999 on page A12.

TSIMSHIAN negotiator Gerald

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TERRACE would be an island in a sea of
Tsinishian land under the tribal group’s
opening demand for land in treaty talks,

The Tsimshian proposal breaks up their
clairaed traditional territory around here
into four categories:

Lah-yoop

Tsimshian for ‘‘our land’’, this would be
equivalent to the smaller area of core lands
in the Nisga’a treaty where natives would
have either oulright ownership or the high-
est level of jurisdiction.

Area proposed; All the land immediately
around Terrace and extending up the Kit-
sumkalum valley to the north end of Kalum
Lake and Sand Lake, south to Lakelse Lake
plus the lower Kitimat River, and up the
Skeena to beyond Oliver Creek.

Economic zones

Logging, mining and industrial activity
would be emphasized in these zones, al-
though still under the supervision of a joint
slewardship council giving some degree of
Tsimshian control.

Area proposed: Most of the mid to upper
Copper River (Zymoetz) watershed, upper
Cedar River, upper Nelson River, upper Er-
landsen Creek, upper Mayo Creek.

Special management areas
Areas to be developed with a high level
of care and caulion, jointly managed by the
three parties,
Area proposed: Exchamsiks, Exstew,
Shames, upper Kitsumkalum R., Little
Cedar R., Dasque Creek, upper. Williams

Wesley points to Terrace on a map of Tsimshian
traditional territory. That darker shaded triangle of land around and north of the
city Is the area the Tsimshian want for their core lands,

Tsimshian unveil land demands

Creck, upper Kitimat River, Wedeene and
Little Wedeene watersheds,

Protected areas

Covers existing parks and potential future
protected areas, Tsimshian want assurances
of traditional use within them.

Area proposed: Gitandoix recreation
area, Lakelse Lake provincial park, the
Lakelse River and Coldwater Creek area,
and the Maroon Mountain/Mt. Garland area
east of Kalum lake.

Autonomy important

THE TSIMSHIAN insistence of a very
decentralized treaty giving cach village
maximum autonomy remains a ‘vexing
problem”, says B.C.'s chief negotiator.

Lyle Viereck said the province wants to
avoid ending up with the equivalent of
several different treaties for the Tsimshian,
and hopes the end result will be somewhat
centralized and efficient to run,

Viereck said it also raises questions of
whether to table an offer to the entire group
or to individual bands.

_ “Da we put offers forward in stages or to
the First Nation as a whole?’’ he asked.

The decentratized concept has been key
to maintaining Tsimshian unity by promis-
ing each band customized treaty options.

“Central government won’t work for
us,’’ said Kitselas negotiator Mel Bevan.
“Autonomy is the only thing that will
work, But even though we’re talking about
autononay, il can all be done in one treaty,’’

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Surrounding areas for supporting this years
Very Successful Annual Carnation Drive. A spe-
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support.

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Northern Savings Credit Union
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into the cause, and cure of this Disease still has to go on. Again, Thank you all for sup-
porting research this year throughout the 1999 Carnation Campaign.

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