They're "negotiating" under duress. The choice is, play along and get a pittance, or don't and get nothing. The land will be destroyed either way.
That is not true. Canada is the only nation to allow oral history as evidence in court for land rights. The Federal government has become much better, but provincial governments are...
... slower to change. The various First Nations people's face different situations, and some of the poorer bands have poor self governance, and corruption. Not all of it, but some.
That is a pretty bad article that twists the reality. The Province can not tell the band what to do. They want to use logging to make money. The protesters are trespassing on native
... land and have no right to impose their views on the band living there.
These protesters imposing their morality over the indigenous people are wrong.
BC old growth is already protected, but if some indigenous people want to allow logging on their reserves that is their choice. Protesters do not have the right to protest it.
They have a right to protest on their own lands, but not on reserve lands. It's almost racist to tell First Nations what they should do with their own land.
