TRU is hosting a forum tomorrow (Sept. 26) that will explore implications of the recent Supreme Court of Canada that gives First Nations a more say on resource decisions.
Among panelists at the 6 p.m. forum at the university’s Irving K. Barber Centre is Joe Alphonse, tribal chairman with the Tsilhqot’in National Government.
Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled in June the Tsilhqot’in have aboriginal title to 2,000 square kilometres in the remote Nemiah Valley in the Chilcotin, noting First Nations aren’t required to prove aboriginal title on specific properties on a case-by-case basis.
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