For Immediate Release. February 6, 2006

The combined Territories of the Four Tribes make up a significant portion of the proposed Central Coast Land and Resource Management Plan (CCLRMP) area and also the Broughton Archipelago is shared exclusively by the Four Tribes. We have our own distinct relationship and attachment with our lands and waters within our territory like many distinct First Nations in the Province; we are determined to protect our values and traditional teachings, which sustain our mother earth and our way of life.

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Speakers include: June Quipp (Elder, Cheam Nation), Rosalin Sam (Sutikalh camp), Billie Pierre, Dustin Johnson (Indigenous Students Society UBC), Super Dan, and others…..

RESIST 2010 !!! BOYCOTT DELTA HOTELS !!!
SATURDAY FEBURARY 12TH GATHER AT VICTORY SQUARE @ 1 PM

February 12, 2005 will mark the five-year countdown to the 2010 Olympics, which runs from February 12-28. On Saturday February 12, 2005 we will bring the struggle against the Olympics to the forefront by targeting the Delta Hotels and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) offices.

We will be marching to confront and remind people that there can be No Olympics on stolen native land as the the Secwepemc, St’at’imc, Cheam and other communities are fighting ski resort development, including hotels like Delta which is now the target of an International Boycott called for by the Secwepemc community, on unceded traditional territories.

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Global investors are being promised faster approvals and better transportation. Michael Kane, Vancouver Sun. Thursday, September 23, 2004

Longer tenures and the sale of Crown lands are highlights of a government strategy to substantially expand B.C.’s multi-billion-dollar resort industry in the run-up to the 2010 Olympics. Global investors are also being promised speedier approvals and improved transportation infrastructure. “If you build it, they won’t come if they can’t get there,” Sandy Santori, minister of state for resort development, told the Vancouver Board of Trade Wednesday. Tourists already spend about $2 billion at B.C. resorts every year, spinning off almost $2 billion more in related direct spending. More than 700 resorts — ranging from small, remote fishing lodges to world-class destination sites — employ more than 26,000 people. And there is now $3.3 billion worth of new resort proposals and expansion plans on the drawing board around the province.

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Statement from Sutikalh Camp, St’at’imc Territory, Winter 2003.

The 2010 Winter Olympics directly threatens unceded St’at’imc territory and Sutikalh camp. established in May 2000 to stop construction of a $530-million ski resort in the Melvin Creek area. The Resort Municipality of Whistler is itself located on the territory of the Lil’wat, a community of the St’at’imc nation. To this day, most of BC remains unceded sovereign Indigenous territories by Canada’s own laws (inc. the 1763 Royal Proclomation).

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