36 Replies to “Permission Slip”

    3. They could refurbish the “Grease Trail”, which was used to pack oolichan oil from the west coast towards the east.
      Carrying oil from Alberta out to Bella Coola in jerry cans should be even easier because there’s more downhill than uphill.

  2. Yeah…..natives are “stewards of the Iand” is the popuIar narrative, but at the end of the day…..they are just Iooking for a payday Iike everyone eIse it seems.

    1. Yes I noticed that too. They need money for elders to be able to pass the knowledge down to the kiddies. It’s white man’s lack of sustained funding that is preventing that today. How did they ever manage before whitey arrived?

  3. Like all other human beings throughout history, the Siberian immigrants did what they did because they wanted the result to benefit them. Buffalo jumps, you name it – it had NOTHING to do with “being good stewards,” a term they learned from us.

    1. They had their cautionary tales about abusing the land the the spirits getting mad at them (ie when overhunted and overfished, the spirit animals “left” so they had to find new homes – The Downfall of Temlahem is the one I know the best). They didn’t follow them any more than any/all other societies followed their own rules.

  4. That Article is a lovely crafted pile of propaganda to support UNDRIP.

    But, there is zero doubt that there needs to be a much better campaign of controlled burns happening throughout BC. 5000 hectares annually seems like a pinprick to me.

    I wonder what useless species the Eco Tards that infest our neighbouring province wanted to protect..?? The Pine Beetle perhaps.??

    1. There were slash burns through the coast forest areas up until the 80s, then they were banned because of smoke. It was standard practice, and we didn’t see massive fires on the coast.
      So now, call it Indigenous, pretend the idea has never occurred before, and declare it an idea of genius!
      The Media at work with its narrative………..if the natives were such genius’, why were they living a pre-historic lifestyle when ol whitey first hit the shores?

  5. Blackie’s Globe and Mail reports on Indian tribes and Texas oil companies proposing a ten billion dollar LNG project in socialist B.C. Funny how Indian fossil fuel projects are wonderful.

  6. Burning…to reduce fire risk?

    That’s just fake news. I mean, if Trump said it, its wrong, right?

  7. While living in the deep south of the Okanagan took many hikes.
    Sometimes the guide on native lands was a native guy that went by the name of Buddy.
    Told us that they start fires from time to time only to have the firemen from Osoyoos and Oliver to come and put them out.
    Also told us that the power lines they agreed to and got money for were bad, some 29 million if I remember right for a group of about 450 people at the time. Asked him, did you agree to take the money? No reply, though a young native woman, maybe 15 or 18 that came along for the hike got excited and said she needs to get elected to the council to stop such things.

  10. I wonder what other land management practices will suddenly be discovered to have indigenous roots?
    Perhaps the sudden recognition that minerals and petroleum where extracted using cultural extraction processes?
    I can’t wait for the contention that a bustling cultural manufacturing center existed in what is now SW Ontario many thousands of years ago on an industrial scale well before anyone coined the term industrial revolution.

    2. Didn’t the Cree caulk their canoes with the bitumen oozing out of the tar sands near Fort Mac?

  11. «  Indigenous cultural petroleum arteries » is the woke definition of « oil pipeline ». This new name (soon to drop the word petroleum for earth syrup instead) might be the ticket for energy to finally move in this backward country of ours.

    Indigenous cultural earth syrup arteries, ya that’s the ticket!

  12. Métis are not part of Treaty 8. When white liberals do the news they stick to the BS narrative.

  13. As I’ve said in these very comment pages, there is no sadder failure than a failure of the imagination. If Canadian “conservative” parties had half of a brain – which they don’t appear to – they would work with native bands to help unlock the energy industry and help bring capitalism and prosperity to people whom the Liberals and most of Canadian officialdom – not to mention white lefties who romanticize (always from a distance of course!) natives as the exotic, anti-capitalist “other” – want to remain permanent wards of the state. It’s a great idea and you read it here first.

      1. “Error O’Stool and Stoopid Conservative Party are probably too afraid to take a side.” – EXACTLY. The Laurentian-type political consultants and Ottawa-based establishment know-nothings that have the CPC’s leash haven’t got a clue. They are intellectually-bankrupt, spineless moral cowards and desperately afraid of offending ANYBODY. They seem to be constantly asking themselves “how will this play on the CBC?” when in fact, the CBC is completely irrelevant. There is no sadder failure than a failure of the imagination.

  14. The scene is permanently etched on my fevered brain.
    Was on a bus in downtown Vancouver around 40 years ago. There was a drunken Indian on board who was loud and obnoxious and most likely free riding. What got me was how NICE, how indulgent, how smiley the mostly white passengers were towards him.

    Point being, as mentioned above, get the natives on board for resources development; and sure, pay a cultural commission. Better 95% than 0%. The insane left will be unable to protest against “First Nations” people.

    1. Of course the insane left will be able to protest them. The insane left looks upon them with disdain, but does not consider them equals in any way, shape, or form. Much like the black people in the US who must be herded, collectivized, and gathered into welfare and vote plantations. Why, if they were actually the equals of the enlightened (insane) leftists then they would already agree with the enlightened (insane) leftists. How much more proof do you need that they are not equal and need shepherding?

  15. Forest protection (from fire, disease and insects) took a back seat to urban whim decades ago. Forestry in BC consists of 95% Crown land managed ultimately by politicians who have, over the years, allowed, encouraged, and dictated that urban sentiment over-ride silvicultural sanity. The industry went along with it as they were, and still are rent seeking serfs. Since apartheid management has been the flavour of the last decade or so, the government and their serfs are embracing every narrative that goes with that meme. Perhaps when the NDP have completed the surrender of Crown lands to Indian bands (not people), the bands and their settler-serfs will undertake practices unpopular with their urban “settler” Eloi.

  16. Already tried it. There was a big push to get TMX in the hands of an indian-owned company in order to get it built but the feds wouldn’t go for it.

  18. They’ll regret hitching their wagon to the greentard movement. Ask the Pacheedaht in BC about that.

  19. Enough with the charade.

    Choice bits of land in this country currently belong to Big Aboriginal.

    When does China rob them of the lot and to whom would Big Aboriginal complain?

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