Curtis Rattray

Owner operator of Edziza Trails: guided backpacking aboriginal adventure tours and Indigenous leadership development in Tahltan Territory of northwest BC.

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@OnaagoshinAnang similar to Rafia Zakaria, if you want to listen to these ideas https://t.co/JZTO14VWyB I live in the far northwest BC and when I travel this is one that I listen to on the long road.

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This is interesting news. More interesting is how does current Indigenous political leadership take this and push forward Indigenous sovereignty and not aboriginal rights and title? https://t.co/L30FtCwSOS

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@OnaagoshinAnang @katt890 The real issue is "Happy Birthday!" and have a great, awesome, fun trip around the sun.

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@OnaagoshinAnang No it does not look good, but not surprising. I wonder how small FN communities can have a bigger say in the negotiations of these agreements and not through the larger national AFN.

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Tuya Lake & Tuya Mountains at the junction of 3 watersheds - Yukon, Mackenzie, and Stikine rivers. Baseline data collection starting in 2023.

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@OnaagoshinAnang I think Sid is misunderstanding our current colonial situation while not realizing our ancestral beliefs in our modern context.

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@OnaagoshinAnang Me too, needed to read the thread. So bang on I had to save for future reference.

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@Seawisp2 @jengwater @Songstress28 Seawisp - main issue is crown land has not been legally acquired. Decolonization is reconciling prior existing Indigenous sovereignty with the assertion of Crown sovereignty; this means joint sovereignty that includes joint stewardship within the context we are all here to stay.

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@AndreaLandry1 I see that in Western legal concepts Indigenous Sovereignty is some how magically extinguished by the assertion of Crown sovereignty, which is really colonization. Doctrine of Discovery is their weak legal argument.

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@AndreaLandry1 I work with children in my community; this is great, it is a message that reaffirms my thoughts. Is this your writing?

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@mikitikayla @gindaanis look up the definition of wilderness and you'll find words like an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region. Now look up Terra Nullius. The Latin term for empty lands.

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@UrbanNativeGirl winter is the best time to be outdoors, camping, snowshoeing, sun-drenched by the lake shore ice...and no mosquitoes.

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@AngelaSterritt Great story, thank you for writing it. This kind of awareness makes what I do with youth easier.

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End of March backyard visitor, the calf and mother were feeding when I noticed them.

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Clients from the Horn Mountain tour 2016 #edzizatrails #explorebc #northernbc #beautifulbc

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Grizzly with cubs at Tahltan fish camp. Clients were excited and scared but exhilarated. A safe bear encounter.

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Mi'kmaq artist builds traditional birchbark canoe in Bear River https://t.co/QciExG7HPS

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Great concept this photo captures. Edziza in the city https://t.co/FvOnkqxiD2

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Bringing the great Tahltan lands in northern B.C. to the city at H2T 2.0! @RCGS_SGRC @Sam_Thiara @EdzizaTrails

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Listen to #Tahltan leader Curtis Rattray on importance of #IndigenousLeadership: https://t.co/9EGBKWHGML via @roundhouse983 @edzizatrails