Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation, after viewing the site from the road, said that up to 60 metres (200 ft) of the stone arrangement may have been destroyed. [ 2 ] The Lake Bolac Eel Festival is a community music and art festival held each autumn on the foreshore of Lake Bolac since 2004, inspired by the fact that Lake Bolac was a ...
The Tyrendarra lava flow changed the drainage pattern of the region, and created large wetlands. [1] From some thousands of years before European settlement in the area in the early 19th century (one of five eel trap systems at Lake Condah has been carbon dated to 6,600 years old [1]), the Gunditjmara clans had developed a system of aquaculture which channelled the water of the Darlot Creek ...
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada First Nation(s) Ethnic/national group Tribal council Treaty Area Population [274] Notes ha acre 2016 2011 % difference Carcross 4 [275] Carcross/Tagish: Tlingit / Tagish — n/a: 64.8 160.1: 35: 53-34.0%: Listed by Statistics Canada as self-government Haines Junction [276] Aishihik / Champagne and Aishihik ...
Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation are located at the head of tide of the Miramichi River. For thousands of years Mi’kmaq communities along New Brunswick’s northeastern shore lived near tidal estuaries where tidal saltwater flows inland and creates an ecosystem for "anadromous fish species such as salmon, sturgeon, gaspereau or alewife, striped bass, and eel, that seasonally move up the estuaries ...
Non-Aboriginal stakeholders claimed that if this is allowed, lobster stocks (an important regional source of income and jobs) could be depleted. On September 17, 1999, a Supreme Court of Canada ruling ( R. v. Marshall ) acknowledged that Treaty of 1752 and the Treaty of 1760-1761 held that a Mi'kmaq man, Donald Marshall, Jr. , had the legal ...
Early farming was, at least in some places, quite successful. The large Blackfoot reserves in Southern Alberta apparently produced an "immense" potato crop in 1884 and achieved good sales. Local settlers , often unaware of the terms of the treaties and hostile to their Indigenous neighbours, felt the assistance being given to First Nations gave ...
In order to continue to feed the demand for freshwater eel, poachers began smuggling eels from North American and Europe to stock eel farms in East Asia. In the 2018-19 fishing season, EUROPOL seized "5 789 kg of smuggled glass eels with an estimated value of € 2 000 per kilo" under the European Union Action Plan against wildlife trafficking.
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was a royal commission undertaken by the Government of Canada in 1991 to address issues of the Indigenous peoples of Canada. [151] It assessed past government policies toward Indigenous people, such as residential schools, and provided policy recommendations to the government. [ 152 ]