Archaeology Branch Lies to Protect Exclusion of Tsartlip Nation
Submitted on June 27, 2011
By Jared Nyberg - June 25, 2011
When researching this article, it came to light that after the 2006 Bear Mountain cave incident (in which a sacred shamanic cave was blown up by developers and the Archaeology Branch) the Tsartlip were no longer being consulted in land use decisions. The BC Archaeology Branch explained to this writer that the Ministry of Aboriginal Relations had declared the Tsartlip did not have “first tenure” to the area and did not need to be consulted.
