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Five More BC Bands Ratify Treaties

By 250 News

Sunday, October 21, 2007 09:36 PM

            
All five Maa-nulth First Nations have voted in favour of a treaty in BC . Close to eighty percent of those who voted saying yes to the treaty.

The Toquaht Nation, the Uchucklesaht Tribe, the Ucluelet First Nation, and the Ka:’yu:’k’t’h’/Che:k:tles7et’h’ First Nations all voted in favour of the Final Agreement in a series of separate ratification votes held October 13th through 20th. The four bands join the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, who ratified the agreement in July.

"We congratulate all five Maa-nulth First Nations for moving their treaty forward. The ratification is a great achievement in the important work of treaty-making. The Maa-nulth First Nations are demonstrating strength, confidence, and self-determination," said Premier Gordon Campbell. "We are committed to working together with First Nations to
continue to build meaningful agreements, to affect real change in Aboriginal communities around B.C."

The Maa-nulth First Nations are made up of approximately two thousand members. The Maa-nulth Final Agreement will provide a capital transfer of $73.1 million, annual resource revenue payments averaging $1.2 million for 25 years and a land transfer totalling approximately 24,551 hectares to the five First Nations.

The ratification process required a positive endorsement from 50 per cent plus one of the registered voters list for each First Nation.

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Comment Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on October 22 2007 7:41 AM
Ka:’yu:’k’t’h’/Che:k:tles7et’h’ ..."

I wished I'd picked out that name, now it's been taken, darn! iU8s71}nn",pFt!
Comment Posted by: Harbinger on October 22 2007 10:28 AM
That name Yama has, which I won't bother to reproduce sure has a lot of punctuation. I wonder where they're ancestors found those symbols? Need a mouthful of small stones to pronounce that? Better get that spelled right on the treaty papers so they don't come back later and say, "Hey, that ain't us".
Comment Posted by: Harbinger on October 22 2007 10:30 AM
Their, instead of they're. Sheesh! I aren't prone to gradmatickle errors much.
Comment Posted by: zoom on October 22 2007 10:57 AM
How do I pronounce that, want to make sure I am politicaaly correct when discussing this.
Comment Posted by: northman on October 22 2007 12:44 PM
Looks it was written by a chineese person with a stuttering problem.
Comment Posted by: diplomat on October 22 2007 7:15 PM
Ka:’yu:’k’t’h’/Che:k:tles7et’h’ is a wonderful name, I like it! Very unique! What baffles me is the *7* in the name!

D:'8pL7mat"./.

Comment Posted by: northman on October 23 2007 8:45 AM
Lets hope they dont ever use this at a roadside sobriety test.
Comment Posted by: Andyfreeze on October 23 2007 9:25 AM
I really don't think that it would be politically incorrect if these band names were simplified for the sake of the dumb white man,who by the way,doesn't seem to have the vocal capabilities to speak the language of first nations people.
If we are to respect their culture,then it is only fair that they respect the fact that we don't have a hope when it comes to those band names and spelling!!!
Comment Posted by: Harbinger on October 23 2007 8:34 PM
Sure hope that Indian band pays the embroidery people extra if they ever get their baseball uniforms monogrammed.