B.C. Indigenous leaders hope to to gain approval for clam harvesting at the sea garden site on Salt Spring Island’s coast, and another at nearby Russell Island…
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Indigenous Peoples used the tides to trap clams, mussels, kelp and fish in the shallows once the water receded. Indigenous nations, Parks Canada, scientists and academics are jointly participating in the restoration of the sea gardens, located along ancestral territories of Coast Salish First Nations who travelled the Gulf Islands trading and gathering food.
“How about the obvious thing: Indigenous people moved the rocks to create a place to ensure food supplies of multiple species,” said May. “This is an example of environmental racism,” said Olsen, who’s a member of the Victoria-area Tsartlip First Nation. “These policies are used to deliberately disconnect Indigenous people from their lands.”
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