Page Ai4 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 1, 1992 Land claim suit delayed one month TERRACE — There’s a slight chance of negotiations to settle the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en land claim, But that depends upon the provincial -government’s - ap- proach to a court appeal " scheduled to startin May, saysa speaker for the Gitksan. and Wet'suwet’en. The appeal was filed by the natives after their claim to 57,000 square kilometres of TERRACE — The man who was at the forefront of the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en through their lengthy. supreme court land claims trial has failed in his attempt: to become the chief councillor for Gitwangak. Don Ryan was one of five candidates nominated.to fill the position in the village located at the junction of Hwy37 and Hwyl16. . The election: necessary when chief councillor Glen Williams resigned to take up a position with Gitanyow, another Gitksan band. Elected chief councillor was Larry Moore with 63 votes. Ryan received 34 votes, Mary Dalen 14, Art Matthews 38 and Guy Morgan 45. Moore has served as’ chief councillor before, Ryan has also been a chief councillor, at Gitseguecla. He was defeated jast year. Ryan said he wasn’t disap- pointed by the election results, adding he was asked to run bya group of people in the village. Tenders. put out TERRACE —Railings will be replaced on the Deep Creek ~ = =). Bridge on the road to the Nass as part of a$56 million program... ae announced last week. The job is one of many became: northwest B.C. was denied by the B.C, Supreme Court last year in what is now known as _ Delgam Uukw vs. The Queen. It was to start next month but _the provincial government ask- ed for and was granted an ad- journment last week of one month. That was.because the new NDP government fired the law firm the previous government hired and retained a new firm more sympathetic to its point of views “What the Gitksan and - Wet?’suwet’en are looking for is _ something concrete upon which “negotiations could start, says ~Ardythe Wilson. She said anything the provin- “cial government does must ‘depart from the Delgam Uukw decision which denied the ex- isterce of aboriginal rights and title. ; *‘The Gitksan and Wet'suetwe’en chiefs have already told us there’ll be no negotiations if the extinguish- ment argument in Delgam Uukw remains,’ said Wilson, She added the Gitksan and. Wet’suwet’en will accept rehabilitation projects on which’. - a ene 7 the highways ministry is taking a advance tenders, The idea is to give companies io a better and earlier idea of work that will take place and to give them more time to complete: projects | during favourable. negotiations only if the govern- ment recognizes the existence of native self government and of title before the talks begin. “What we would be doing is relying on the goodwill of the crown to give us whatever rights they agree to give us” if that - didn’t take place, Wilson said. “This government must § recognize the inherent right to @ self government — it’s something that already exists | and can’t be legislated in. It already exists based on our #7 culture and traditions,” she said, Another Gitksan spokesman, Don Ryan, said the native ap- proach goes beyond the NDP phrase of “political legitimacy”’ it used last December to express its position on self-government. “The only aspect that will work is recognition of inherent self-government,’’ he said. Ryan added that negotiations would work to defining the scope of native rights. The appeal is scheduled to start May 4 and court time to June 26 has been set aside for five appeal court justices to hear the case. 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