Westbank’s Robert Louie awarded Order of BC
Robert Louie (Simo), Chief of the Westbank First Nation is one of 15 people exemplifying excellence who will be invested into the Order of British Columbia, the province’s highest honour.
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Transborder dispute threatens ONA’s salmon success
The successes of the Syilx Okanagan Nation’s sockeye salmon restoration culminating in record numbers reaching the Okanagan Basin to spawn this year are suddenly at risk in what appears to be collateral damage from a developing transborder rift with the Colville Confederated Tribes.
First Nations transborder claims ‘risks opening a Pandora’s box’
Leaders from the syilx Okanagan Nation are raising concerns about the “ever-expanding transborder claims” of a related tribe in the “U.S.” that has begun asserting land rights north of the border.
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