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Tsleil-Waututh First Nation
The Tsleil-Waututh Nation, formerly known as the Burrard Indian Band or Burrard Band, is a First Nations government in the Canadian Province of British Columbia. The Tsleil-Waututh are Coast Salish people who speak the Downriver dialect of the Halkomelem language, and are closely related to but politically separate from the nearby nations of the Sḵwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Hwmethkwyem (Musqueam, with whose traditional territories and claims overlap.
The Tsleil-waututh Nation is a member government of the Naut'sa mawt Tribal Council, which includes other governments on the upper Sunshine Coast, southeastern Vancouver Island and the Tsawwassen band on the other side of the Vancouver metropolis from the Tsleil-waututh.
Numbering about 500 people, the Tsleil-Waututh are among the most progressive First Nations in British Columbia.
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Richmond News
April 18, 2018
Leaders of local First Nations including the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs have vowed to stop Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted the project will be built. Indigenous leaders and protesters held a newsÃâà...
HuffPost Canada
April 17, 2018
Indigenous leaders are promising to continue the fight against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion despite the prime minister's insistence that it will be built. "The prime minister is saying they are in negotiations with Kinder Morgan to ensure an end to uncertainty. What he is ignoring is thatÃâà...
VICE News
April 17, 2018
During a press conference Monday, leaders of the Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish First Nations along the pipeline route said consultations have been “deeply flawed,” and the federal government does not have their consent to build the Trans Mountain expansion. While some First Nations along the routeÃâà...
The Guardian
April 16, 2018
We've heard little about the Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish, the coastal First Nations who've taken the federal government to court. We've heard even less about the Secwepemc in the interior of BC – whose lands cover almost half of Kinder Morgan's route – who are building solar-panelled tiny housesÃâà...
Vancouver Courier
April 11, 2018
If you're curious about the watch house recently built by members of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation outside Trans Mountain, Burnaby Residents Opposed to Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) are inviting you to come check it out. BROKE and Protect the Inlet are hosting a community day April 15 to talk aboutÃâà...
Greenpeace International
April 5, 2018
There was Ocean Hyland, a young woman from the Tsleil-Waututh community in British Columbia who marched alongside family and friends. Ocean Hyland at the ... Ocean Hyland is from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, whose territory is threatened by Kinder Morgan's proposed oil sands pipeline. Ãâé RogueÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 26, 2018
Cedar George-Parker, who was among the young Indigenous leaders who led a march to the site on Saturday, said the project poses too great a risk to Tsleil-Waututh First Nation lands. "We're taking a stand against the Kinder Morgan pipeline, we're standing up against bullies. Justin Trudeau can't do hisÃâà...
Times Colonist
March 25, 2018
Cedar George-Parker, who was among the young Indigenous leaders who led a march to the site on Saturday, said the project poses too great a risk to Tsleil-Waututh First Nation lands. "We're taking a stand against the Kinder Morgan pipeline, we're standing up against bullies. Justin Trudeau can't do hisÃâà...
CTV News
March 25, 2018
Ocean Hyland, who's also from the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, said youth in the community have learned about the value of the land and water from their elders. "They teach us the ways to take care of the land and carry on the traditions of our people," she said. "We're at the stage now where we're thinkingÃâà...
MetroNews Canada
March 25, 2018
Cedar George-Parker, who was among the young Indigenous leaders who led a march to the site on Saturday, said the project poses too great a risk to Tsleil-Waututh First Nation lands. "We're taking a stand against the Kinder Morgan pipeline, we're standing up against bullies. Justin Trudeau can't do hisÃâà...
Net Newsledger
March 25, 2018
BURNABY – POLITICS – Green Party leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) was arrested Friday morning at the Burnaby Mountain worksite of the Kinder Morgan pipeline project. May is promising to stand firm with the Tsleil-waututh, Squamish and Musqueum First Nations and their supportersÃâà...
National Observer
March 25, 2018
Rueben George, a Tsleil-Waututh member, talked to me five days after the Watch House went up. He said it came from a vision that his uncle, the late Leonard George — the son of Chief Dan George — had three years ago about a return of Watch Houses to Coast Salish land. When he died last year, eldersÃâà...
North Shore News
March 12, 2018
Members of Tsleil-Waututh First Nation opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion have built a permanent cedar watch house in the pipeline's path, which they say symbolizes the nation's intent to stand guard against the project. “I've been asked by my elders and my spiritual leaders to do this,”saidÃâà...
teleSUR English
March 11, 2018
The project has been mainly opposed by First Nations people, including the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam, which are part of the broad Coast Salish ethnic and linguistic group. The pipeline poses an environmental threat to their sacred lands and they are promoting the hashtags #ProtecttheInletÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 10, 2018
“Our spiritual leaders today are going to claim back Burnaby Mountain,” Rueben George, a member of Tsleil-Waututh Nation, said before the crowd marched to the steady beat of drums and chants toward a site near Kinder Morgan's storage tank farm in Burnaby. Many protesters carried signs that read,Ãâà...
Straight.com
March 7, 2018
Although direct action has a long history of playing a role in moments of important social change Tsleil-Waututh Nation is focused on fighting Kinder Morgan in the courts.” Formerly known as the Burrard Indian Band, the Tsleil-Waututh have considered the inlet and the lands and waters around it as part ofÃâà...
North Shore News
December 31, 1999
Across Burrard Inlet on Tsleil-Waututh Nation lands is some sophisticated machinery designed to detect everything that may be lingering in the air. Metro Vancouver has parked its Mobile Air Quality Monitoring Unit (or MAMU) near the Tsleil-Waututh Cultural and Recreation Centre as part of a study into airÃâà...
TeenVogue.com
December 31, 1999
In this op-ed, 21-year-old Ocean Hyland, a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in British Columbia, Canada, explains why she recently joined thousands of others in protest against an oil company. My name is Ocean Hyland. My friends call me Shkwen, which is “Ocean” in the Squamish language.
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