Colville’s decision to withdraw financial support stirs tensions with Canadian counterparts
Disagreement is brewing between First Nations groups across the Canada-U.S. border in the Okanagan over collaboration on sockeye salmon restoration projects and other land claims.
Funding from the Colville tribes for the joint projects of around $400,000 CA annually that had historically been granted to the ONA salmon efforts was cancelled this summer. The ONA calls that "short-sighted." The Syilx Okanagan Nation accused Colville of pursuing a "unilateral agenda of reaching across the border into Canada, demanding and acting to gain involvement over Syilx Okanagan Nation Territory. The Syilx Okanagan Nation has never attempted to do the same in the US and has in fact been prepared to meet and discuss issues, with an extended hand that remains open to Colville."
Colville's chairman Jarred Erickson disagreed with some of the characterizations in the press release. "We all have our unique histories, and we know who we are as people. And it just is unfortunate it's become politicized. And I don't want to see that. I want to work together."
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