7 episodes
Land Back CBC Indigenous
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4.3 • 20 Ratings
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Land Back uncovers land theft in Canada and looks at how Indigenous people are reclaiming their territories, identities and lives.
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E6: The Crown
When Canada’s Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says “it’s time to give land back”, what does he really mean? In this episode, Angela puts questions from Indigenous land defenders to the Minister and asks why governments talk about reconciliation but still fight First Nations in court.
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E5: A Village Burned
In 1913, the Squamish village of Sen̓áḵw is burned and residents are barged away to make room for the developing city of Vancouver. Eventually, a slice of that land is reclaimed, and now, the Squamish Nation is developing a mega-project. Angela investigates what “land back” means in the heart of the city, and why it’s making some white people upset.
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E4: The Bridge
Near the ruins of a residential school, three Sto:lo nations reclaim 60 hectares of Crown land in the Fraser Valley. Angela walks with a survivor on the concrete slabs of the former institution, learns about taking this land back, and hears about the connection between residential schools and land theft.
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E3: The Dream
Healing on the land is a dream for many Indigenous people, and it’s the goal of the Unist'ot'en resistance camp in Wet’suwet’en territory. Angela visits the camp and meets three generations of women committed to this vision. But she encounters troubling allegations, forcing her to confront the complexities of reclaiming land in the midst of colonization.
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E2: War Zone
Sleydo’ faces down police raids on the frontlines of the conflict between the Coastal Gaslink pipeline and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs. But she’s also a mom hustling between birthday parties, building a life on the land, and reclaiming her cultural identity. Angela spends a day in her life and learns about the impact of Canadian law on it.
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E1: The Eviction
Is evicting settlers what we mean when Indigenous people say “land back”? In 1991, a Gitxsan clan serves eviction notice to a white couple building a house on their territory. They’ve become stuck in the middle of a monumental Aboriginal rights and title case. Gitxsan host Angela Sterritt meets the leaders who fought Canada in the historic Delgamuukw case, and learns why that battle continues today.
Customer Reviews
Well reported, important stories
As an American with a predictably (and unfortunately) low level of awareness of the specifics of how colonization played out in Canada, I deeply appreciate how these stories are being shared in this podcast. Angela Sterritt is a very gifted journalist anyway, but the way that she brings her own (Gitxsan) perspective gives the stories even more impact. I believe she will find herself with an ever larger microphone in the coming years, which will benefit many. The process of reconciliation is obviously going to be painfully slow, but work such as this will help in both obvious and subtle ways. Please keep at it.
Lacks nuance and a critical lens
… See for instance episode 5 - where “reclaiming the land” is a laughable euphemism for the story of a local indigenous band joining in the longer term rape and pillage of waterfront land - of which, ironically, they are the earliest victims. I SO wish indigenous development in Vancouver was instead held to the standard of environmental and social scrutiny we settlers with a conscience hold the regular old “profane” private developers in our midst. Better still would be indigenous developers modeling a new, unprecedentedly progressive vision of what it means to develop land where the human and natural worlds may together thrive in these end times. Sadly, these questions are basically ignored in this journalist’s starry-eyed treatment of this topic.