A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 21, 1998 , Gold, dry times predicted Can the treaty be fair? Dear Sir: After reading the opinion piece in The Terrace Stan- dard, Sept. 30, entilled “Referendum Push a New Idea’ by Jack Ebbels, ] may owe the provincial negotia- tors an apology since [ didn’t realize B.C, was ne- gotialing as early as 1990. However, [ am _ dis- appointed to learn that our Nisga’a neighbours put up such a hard fight over con- trol of our fee simple properties. It was my under- standing that they voluntari- ly did so. Another thing [wasn’t aware of was that public meetings were held in every’ part of the province, I’m sure those who attended the meetings felt the same pain- ful agony of listening to Jack grind his way through a two-hour filibuster relay- ing the legal text, time frame and legitimate proce- RE CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD The Mail Bag dure of the land claims pro- cess. All of these legalities were not really our purpose of at- lending these meetings. We can get that sort of info al- most anywhere. What we actually wanted lo know was important things like is our water supply going to be protected so we can remain on our fee simple propertics. Before most all of our community members gave up and dropped out of the meetings we went through a note taking process. That’s where the same notes were taken for two years at each meeting and nothing was done. Once we insisted on minute reports being taken at each meeling we ad- vanced to the promise stage whereby the negotiators promised to take our issucs to the table, This was done a couple of times in a half-. hearted manner that didn’t get anywhere, So in short we got left out in the cold completely. Land claims opposers don’t know own history I can’t say if this is a good deal or not. Dear Sir: I’ve heard of the Nisga’a land claims for over 30 years, which is not surprising since elders went to England 100 years ago and put their claims before the Privy Council in London. Essentially they staked their claims to the Nass country and they received the support of the Privy Council in principle. As usual, though, the ball was bounced to Ottawa who tossed it back to Victories and it has been kicked around from pillar to post cver since. - For several generations the Nisga’a land claim was the only claim in North America. The Nisga’a claim soon became the model for other claims throughout Canada and the US. I’m not a native person. I do know the Nisga’a had the foresight and the vision to make a legal claim to their territory long before anyone ever heard of David Black, Ted Byfield or the current z00 of politicians throughout Canada. Until now the immigrants to northwest B.C. have been living by the good graces of the real owners of this part of the province. British Columbians who panic over this deal are merely expressing their ignorance. The Nass country has never legally been Tax Law © Trusts ® Corporate & Commercial 1330 - 1074 West Georgie Streat, Vancouver, B.C, VOE 3C9 | _ Phone: 604-687-0878 - Fax: 604-689-1386 Northern Horse Supply October 20 - Oilskin Clothing « Coats » Hats + Pants 1 "ote 24. Shop Early For Christmas! Lots of Great Gift Ideas! New Stock Arriving Steady! OO 3083.River Drive, Terrace 638-7252 part of B.C. and some sort of seltlement had to take piace before history moved on. But then, as usual, Canadians don’t know their own history. 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