Chief Rob Everson's Presentation on the Political and Legal Challenges Facing Indigenous Peoples
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents: It has been a year since Rob Everson and his daughter Keisha mailed political leaders in North Island copies of their booklet 'Cultural Erasure: The Impact of Colonization - Past, Present and Future. Everson is the Hereditary Chief of the Gigalgam Walas Kwagut around Port Hardy and the Pentlatch people from the Cowichan area. On Wednesday, August 26, Chief Everson gave the SRD Board a brief explanation of the political and legal challenges facing Indigenous peoples in British Columbia today. This is a highly edited and abridged version of that talk.
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