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Sockeye return to the upper river for the first time in seventy years
Counts at the weir topped four thousand this week, three years after the flow agreement. Elders who remember the last run walked the bank on Sunday.
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New treaty signed in the coastal region after four years at the table
Four years of negotiation, and a map that finally starts filled in rather than blank.
Two cutblocks deferred, eleven still standing on the schedule
The deferral covers 2,100 hectares. The schedule it was carved out of covers considerably more.
Council votes to fund language nests in three communities
The commitment covers wages for eight fluent speakers, which is the part that took the argument.
Housing starts in three communities, and the water lines to match
Forty-two units are funded. The servicing that makes them habitable is funded separately, and later.
The last three fluent speakers, and the class of forty
Two nights a week in a room above the band office, forty people are learning a language that three people…
The reservoir sits at eighty per cent, and downstream is asking why
The release schedule is public and the storage numbers are public. The two do not obviously reconcile.
A wampum belt comes home after ninety years in storage
Ninety years in a drawer, four pages of agreement, and one condition that was not the one anybody expected.
Every fishery closure this summer, on one map
What the summer order covers, river by river, and which sections come back first.
A dictionary forty years in the making goes to the printer
Nine thousand entries, four dialects, and a decision about orthography that took a decade on its own.
The morning brief
One email, weekday mornings, five minutes.