Kitsumkalum First Nation initials historic draft agreement with Victoria, Ottawa
A second First Nation in northwestern B.C. has placed its initials on an historic draft agreement with B.C. and Canada in as many days.
Tuesday's ceremony comes after representatives from neighbouring Kitselas First Nation had joined representatives from the provincial and federal government to initial that First Nation's draft agreement with Victoria and Ottawa. "Yesterday, our relatives in Kitselas, they took the same step by initialling their treaty document. Our two communities have walked together for a number of years, well generations, because our people have always co-existed side-by-side.
Notwithstanding timing issues, Kitsumkalum is now to set join Kitselas on a path toward an historic agreement.
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