The summer village of Ma-Me-O Beach on Pigeon Lake is facing a bill for millions of dollars as a result of a failed attempt to install a sewage system in the community.
the indian act, devastating the human rights of over 200 distinct first nations in the country and forcing cultural assimilation. as well as projects like paul s, storytelling has become a huge way of keeping indigenous culture alive. les is a knowledge keeper for the tsleil waututh tribe. it was only in the last 30 years that this park in northern vancouver was returned to the people after the discovery of food scraps showed just how long ago a community lived here. i grew up knowing it as cates park and it was discovered that, um, that it was our land and that we use it as a summer village. back over there, where it s a little bit flatter and more grass, that s where we would harvest our salmon. we d hang our meat our meat, our elk from the trees, our deer from the trees. we d pick berries there s always berries here in the summertime, so we d spend a lot of our