Indigenous nations, Parks Canada, scientists and academics are jointly participating in the restoration of the sea gardens in B.C. along ancestral territories of Coast Salish First Nations
A family of sea otters emerges from the ocean and rambles up the rocky shoreline, while a great blue heron in search of a meal pokes at a wall of rocks.Ken Thomas, standing on a rocking boat just off British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island, marvels at the beauty and bounty of the ancient Fulford Harbour sea garden.
Indigenous Peoples used the tides to trapclams, mussels, kelp and fish in the shallows once the water receded. Indigenous nations, Parks Canada, scientists and academics are jointly participating in the restoration of the sea gardens, located along ancestral territories of Coast Salish First Nations who travelled the Gulf Islands trading and gathering food.
“How about the obvious thing: Indigenous people moved the rocks to create a place to ensure food supplies of multiple species,” said May. “This is an example of environmental racism,” said Olsen, who’s a member of the Victoria-area Tsartlip First Nation. “These policies are used to deliberately disconnect Indigenous people from their lands.”
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