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Decolonization and Indigenous rights
Recommendation 17:
Support Indigenous Peoples to have the resources needed to develop and administer their own cultural heritage laws, policies, and practices; and to establish agreements that clarify relations with and between federal and provincial governments.
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Recommendation 3:
Support Indigenous communities’ and their Knowledge Keepers’ efforts to revitalize and maintain all forms of Indigenous Cultural Heritage. This support should be through funding for strategic planning and monitoring efforts, capacity building and training, networking and learning opportunities, research and documentation, and infrastructure development.
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Recommendation 11:
Support efforts to understand, document, and record Indigenous place names by:
- Establishing a working group of Indigenous Peoples experienced with the placename process;
- Funding Indigenous communities to undertake dialogue and engagement; and
- Providing funding and staffing resources to the B.C. Geographical Names Office of the Heritage Branch to process and evaluate Indigenous place names applications, including engagement with Indigenous communities.
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Recommendation 12:
Support efforts to map Indigenous cultural heritage traditions across the province through the provision of funding for training and capacity building, research and documentation, learning and knowledge transfer, and informational infrastructure development.
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Recommendation 6:
Support anti-racism initiatives and education for and about Indigenous Peoplesby working with the Ministry of Education and developing resources for public education at all levels.
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Recommendation 2:
Support a central focus on Indigenous peoples choosing how they will organize and govern themselves consistent with the right to self-determination.
Indigenous self-determination is foundational to the UN Declaration.
Historically, self-government agreements have been paternalistic and subject to discriminatory colonial policies.
Advancing Indigenous self-government will require the BC government to invest in the work being implemented by Nations.
The right to self-determination necessarily includes the recognition and revitalization of Indigenous laws and legal systems.
The BC government should support this work apart from achieving agreements on other outcomes (i.e., resources), and without demanding a prescribed Crown role in the rebuilding effort.
Indigenous self-determination is foundational to the UN Declaration.
Historically, self-government agreements have been paternalistic and subject to discriminatory colonial policies.
Advancing Indigenous self-government will require the BC government to invest in the work being implemented by Nations.
The right to self-determination necessarily includes the recognition and revitalization of Indigenous laws and legal systems.
The BC government should support this work apart from achieving agreements on other outcomes (i.e., resources), and without demanding a prescribed Crown role in the rebuilding effort.
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Recommendation 8:
Set out measures for special identification, recognition, and protection of intangible heritage. It is recommended that B.C. support the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (the Convention) by articulating in legislation and regulations the means by which intangible Indigenous cultural heritage is identified, recognized, and protected.
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Recommendation 2:
Recognize that the Indigenous understandings of Indigenous cultural heritage are both tangible and intangible and are holistic, integrated, fulsome, and inclusive. This will require moving away from the narrow focus on ‘archaeological’ material culture currently common to the interpretation of the heritage legislation such as the Heritage Conservation Act and the delineation of a set date of 1846 as archaeological in nature.
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Recommendation 13:
Recognize and protect Indigenous cultural heritage places of significance and places that are endangered yearly through the application of legislative tools for heritage recognition and protection and through provision of funding for projects and initiatives designed to safeguarding such places. This must include a public registry of Indigenous cultural heritage places that allows Indigenous communities to control which places may be publicly known.
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Recommendation 18:
Provide support for a committee, such as the FPCC Indigenous Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee, of qualified Indigenous experts to advise B.C. on a case-by-case basis on shared Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural heritage interests.
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