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Environment committee I would agree with those targets, and I would again go back to the IPAs and indigenous communities right across the country. Every indigenous community has a traditional territory. Every indigenous community has special places within their traditional territories that they would
September 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
September 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
September 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee No, I'm not suggesting that only indigenous people will be allowed to protect lands in Canada henceforth. I understand that under the National Parks Act, Canada has pretty much reached its limit with Thaidene Nene and on all the national parks that are going to be created in Cana
September 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee Again, overlapping claims is a construct of colonization. Having said that, if the indigenous communities are not there yet, or not interested, then it's pretty hard to.... You can bring a horse to the trough, but you can't force it to drink. If they are under-capacitated but in
September 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee It's still a process. It's ongoing. Within the Akaitcho territory, which Thaidene lies within, there's a land claim that's going on between the Akaitcho Dene first nations and Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories. There's an overlap in land claimants. NWT Métis
September 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee Mahsi cho. [Witness speaks in Dene] I'm happy today to be here with you again. On behalf of Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation, I'd like to say how grateful we are for the opportunity to share the knowledge base that we've accumulated and the work that we've been doing in the last
September 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee I think we have to go back to the early days of contact in the relationship. It was recognized at that time that we needed to work together to survive, and I think we still have to do that going forward, nation to nation, in a relationship based on the treaties, whether it is the
May 5th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee I hope to see more Canadians visiting Thaidene Nëné and making life-changing decisions while they're visiting our beautiful territory. I think there's room in this country for such an organization through which we could dialogue on best practices and move forward together. Just
May 5th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee The indigenous people of this country have rights identified in section 35. In 1982 that was an empty box. It's starting to fill up pretty well. It's been defined. To ask indigenous people to give up those rights for the sake of conservation may not be the best approach, in my op
May 5th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee I guarantee that you're not going to get any support from indigenous governments if you want to create conservation areas by excluding their ability to use that area. From the Thaidene Nëné perspective, it's built right into the agreement. In our discussions with Canada and the G
May 5th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee I can certainly try to answer some of those questions. If you look at Thaidene Nëné, it has a long history for sure. The interest of Canada in creating a national park in that area was first expressed back in the late 1960s or early 1970s, but at that point in time, just as with
May 5th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee [Witness speaks in Dene] In my language, I just said thank you very much to all of my relations for giving me the time to present to you today. My name is Steven Nitah. I'm the lead negotiator for the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation in our negotiations and discussions with both t
May 5th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah
Environment committee It’s “Nee-tah”.
May 5th, 2016Committee meeting
Chief Steven Nitah