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Re: STOP THE DESECRATION OF 4000 YR. BURIAL GROUND!
Rod Hagen (rodhagen@netspace.net.au)
Mon, 15 May 1995 12:52:08 +1000
In article <1995May12.050839.19776@sol.UVic.CA>, Nanoose Nation
<jlui@sol.uvic.ca> wrote:
> From: Carrie St.Pierre***Thu May 11 09:33:46 1995
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> (PUBLISHED BY THE NANOOSE NATION, B.C. CANADA)
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> PROTECTING THE SACRED RESTING
> PLACE OF OUR ANCESTORS
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> WE ARE OBLIGATED TO PROTECT OUR
> 1200 BURIALS AT CRAIG BAY,
> Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
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> The NANOOSE Firsts Nations is currently fighting an ongoing battle to
> save its burial site at Craig Bay. The bulldozers of INTRAWEST, the
> resort development company, threatens to destroy our sacred burial
> ground containing approximately 1200 burials and 14000 associated
> cultural objects. Already 400 burials have been uncovered. 284 are
> presently exposed and 147 sets of human remains have been removed.
>
> Not only is this site of major importance to the Nanoose people, it is
> one of, if not the most important heritage and cultural site ever to be
> unearthed in the province of British Columbia.
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An action of this kind in Australia involving Aboriginal burial sites
would be prohibited under various pieces of state and federal legislation
relating to the protection of sacred sites etc. Is there no analgous law
in Canada?
Is is possible to invoke any Canadian international treaty obligations
concerning religious freedom, rights of indigenous peoples etc?
--
Rod Hagen
rodhagen@netspace.net.au
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