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Decolonization and Indigenous rights
Recommendation 21:
Provide specific funding for Indigenous-led initiatives to commemorate and interpret Indigenous cultural heritage. Such funding should be broadly distributed according to each Indigenous Nation’s current capacity and needs. For example, there is a need for Indigenous communities to work internally in the form of committees or working groups to decide how they want to commemorate sites of trauma, such as residential schools, and how the process of commemoration should unfold.
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Recommendation 7:
In addressing Recommendation 6, recognize five key points from “Why Intangible Heritage Matters” (Nicholas 2014):
- Heritage protection and management remain focused on the tangible;
- However, no object or place has meaning without the intangible values ascribed;
- For Indigenous peoples, the tangible and intangible are often indivisible, which has substantial implications for heritage protection;
- A double standard exists regarding how Indigenous intangible heritage, including Traditional Knowledge, and Western Science are valued or treated.
- Efforts to decolonize heritage research and to implement such developments as the UNDRIP will continue to fail if intangible heritage is ignored.
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Recommendation 20:
Hire Indigenous People experienced in Indigenous cultural heritage to foster new ways of thinking within government and to develop common understandings between government and Indigenous communities.
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Recommendation 9:
Harmonize statutory and operational relations between provincial agencies such as the Archaeology Branch and Heritage Branch of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. This requires better communication and strengthened relations between provincial agencies dealing with Indigenous cultural heritage, including the Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation as a key facilitator of relations.
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Recommendation 10:
Harmonize relations, approaches, legislation, policies, and funding opportunities between Canada and British Columbia to support Indigenous Peoples in managing their cultural heritage to establish more cohesive, holistic, and integrated approach.
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Recommendation 14:
Formalize initiatives to inventory Indigenous cultural heritage facing imminent threats related to climate change (e.g., heritage at risk of damage or destruction due to flooding, erosion, fires, temperature change), and develop response plans. Conduct research about how Indigenous Peoples coped with significant environmental changes in the past, and how this might help Indigenous communities and their neighbours plan climate change responses today.
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Establish jurisdiction and statutory decision-making authority over ICH by Indigenous peoples. This requires decentralizing power and developing or activating mechanisms for extending authority to Indigenous peoples. Shared decision-making processes and relations should be established in support of Indigenous peoples’ management of their own cultural heritage. B.C.’s current Bill C-41 / Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) provides a mechanism for developing such legal mechanisms, processes and relationships. Provincial legislation needs to be amended to include UNDRIP, as is being planned for currently by British Columbia and the First Nations Leadership Council via an Action Plan. ICH management should be included as a priority item in B.C.’s DRIPA action plan.
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Recommendation 7:
Establish and enhance relational versus transactional connections between governments based on Indigenous rights recognition, Government-to-Government and/or Nation-to-Nation foundations of equality, and through development and implementation of shared decision-making processes addressing Indigenous Cultural Heritage. This requires displacing the current standards of engagement / consultation / accommodation, based on unilateral government decision-making and strength of claim assessments, and replacing them with new standards as set out above. It also requires significant education, training, and revised hiring practices to ensure government have the capacity to undertake these processes in an effective way.
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Recommendation 19:
Establish a special program to support scholarships and internships for Indigenous students and early-career professionals to conduct and present research on Indigenous cultural heritage related to B.C.’s heritage sites, programs and collections.
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Recommendation 1:
Establish a preliminary legislative foundation as soon as possible that brings transparency, coherence and a measure of accountability to the process, as part of a broader long-term approach to legislative change.
Foundational legislation developed in full co-operation with Indigenous peoples will provide a transparent, coherent and binding path to implementation.
Bill C-262 is a logical starting place for this legislation, as it provides a confirmation of legal application in BC; a legislated requirement for an orderly, clear and transparent process of implementation; and a recognition of the need for oversight and accountability frameworks.
Establishment of legislation should be reflective of a new approach to litigation regarding Indigenous Rights: collaboration, not conflict.
Foundational legislation developed in full co-operation with Indigenous peoples will provide a transparent, coherent and binding path to implementation.
Bill C-262 is a logical starting place for this legislation, as it provides a confirmation of legal application in BC; a legislated requirement for an orderly, clear and transparent process of implementation; and a recognition of the need for oversight and accountability frameworks.
Establishment of legislation should be reflective of a new approach to litigation regarding Indigenous Rights: collaboration, not conflict.
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