Last summer, a logging company cleared approximately 1,200 metres of an Indigenous ancestral trail in Bigstone Cree Nation territory, Treaty No. 8 region (northern Alberta), in spite of government regulations in place to protect land.
As an ancient archeological site, the trail should have been protected by the Alberta Historical Resource Act. A Historical Resource Impact Assessment should have been conducted to assess the site’s protected value.
The logging company, Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc., conducted a “desktop” assessment. But no one physically visited the area, and the assessment missed identifying the trail.
The trail is a valued cultural place, as the Bigstone Cree Nation Lands Department repeatedly informed Alberta-Pacific. Darren Decoine, the Bigstone Lands Department GIS technician, repeatedly requested detailed maps of the logging plans from Alberta-Pacific, but he says they were never provided. The company is supposed to provide shapefiles (maps
The lawmakers Tuesday unveiled what they call the Story of America legislation.
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A statue of former U.S. vice president and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun is raised by crews after its removal from a 100-foot-tall monument on Wednesday, June 24, 2020, in Charleston, S.C.(AP Photo/Meg Kinnard) Author: WLTX Updated: 2:12 PM EST March 10, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. A group of South Carolina lawmakers is proposing a series of bills that would punish people who try to remove monuments and would make changes to what s taught in history in schools.
The lawmakers Tuesday unveiled what they call the Story of America legislation. Rep. Bill Taylor, Steven Long, and Lin Bennett were among the group that also included retired Marine Maj. Gene. James Livingston, a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in Vietnam.
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By CAITLIN BYRD | The State | Published: March 7, 2021 CHARLESTON, S.C. (Tribune News Service) Ken Gordon never kept a journal during his time at The Citadel. But no one, he explained more than 35 years later, can forget hell. When Gordon reported to the Charleston campus in August 1984, he found a South that refused to let go of its past. Confederate battle flags waved in the stands during home football games. Cadets marched to Dixie during Friday afternoon parades. Eighteen years had passed since Charles DeLesline Foster broke the color barrier in 1966 to become the first African American to join the Corps of Cadets. Yet Gordon, an 18-year-old Black freshman from Willingboro, N.J., remembers being called one name more than any other his first year: The N-word.