Al2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 21, 2000

Gitanyow warn of possible
conflict with Nisga’a on land

GITANYOW nalives say
they will continue to hunt
and fish on their traditional
lands, setting up a possible
conflict with. the Nisga’a
who now have treaty rights
in some of the same areas.’

“Peaple -are going to-

exercise their rights,”
warned Gitanyaw negotia-
tor Glen Williams. “We'll
be up there. Who has
priorily to hunt and fish

- us or-the Nisga’a??—~.---

As of May 11, the
Nisga’a trealy gave the
Nisga’a ownership of near-
ly 2,000 square kilometres
of land plus hunting and.
fishing rights in a ‘much
larger area covering most
of the Nass watershed,

The Gitanyow also
claim the mid-section of
the Nass valley and. want
to know if the implemen-
tation of the treaty will bar
them from hunting ar fish-
ing in their traditional ter-
ritory.

“What about our
rights?” Williams deman-
ded. “We have coustitu-

tionally protected aborigi-_, |
‘Canada has said it will

nal rights as well. How
does that play out against
newly proclaimed treaty
tights?”

Aboriginal affairs mini-

Extensive

stry spokesman Peter
Smith says the Nisga'a
treaty tights on hunting
and fishing are not exclu-
sive.

The Gitanyow can con-
tinue to hunt and fish on
their territory as. they have
always done, he said.

“The: Gitanyow may
conlinue their aboriginal
right to hunt or fish subject
to the usual parameters
regarding conservation or
public: safety,” Smith said.

“The treaty does not af-
fect the rights of other

First Nations.”

But the Gilanyow are
not convinced,

Williams suspects some
Nisga’a, ‘armed with their
new treaty, will try to keep
Gitanyow. people off the
disputed land.

He cites incidents of
the past couple of years in
which the Gitanyow allege
Nisga’a’ people -burned
down their smoke houses
and ‘in one incident threa-
tened Gitanyow people
with a gun.

Fisheries and Oceans

seid in additional enforce-
‘ment teams this year to
implement the Nisga’a
treaty, he added.

search

for missing kayaker

STEWART RCMP, Terrace
Search and Rescue, provin-
cial emergency volunteers
and friends af a missing
Idaho man spent the better
patt of last week combing
the rivers off Highway 37
north for a missing kayaker.

Steve Faber, 29, was last
seen Thursday, June 8 leav-
ing a camp near Cranberry
Junction on Highway 37.
He was heading north.

When he didn’t show up
in Terrace by Saturday,
June 10 friends got worried
and reported him missing to
the RCMP.

Four days later, friends
found his truck off Highway
37, just south of the Els-
worth Brothers Logging
Camp, near the Nass River..

One of Faber’s kayaks
was missing from the truck.

Terrace Search and Res-
cuc was called in to help
and, around 10 p.m. June 14
Faber’s missing kayak was
found washed up on a bank
of the Nass River, sbout 30
kilometres dawnstream
from his Toyota truck.

The Provincial Emer-
gency Program aircraft and

a chartered helicopter was
used to locate Faber in the
river June 15, but as of June
16, Faber was still missing,

Based on his RCMP be-
lieve he was wearing a yel-
low and black shirt, a red
life jacket, khaki shorts and
a blue helmet when he dis-
appeared.

RCMP are alsa looking
for a blue kayaking paddle
with a yellow blade that
Faber is believed to have
been using.

Faber was an exper-
ienced kayaker who was

known to run-rivers on his... |

own. He lived in the Ter-"
race area most of last year.

Cnst. Jeff McArthur said
a police dog and handler
were used to unsuccessfully
search for a scent from the
canoe.

An extensive ground
search along the banks of
the Nass River was expec-
ted to continue throughout
the weekend.

“We need to play out a
few scenarios,” said McAr-
thur. “He might be injured
and not visible from an
aircraft.”

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Federal fisheries offi-
cials, however, say their
increased presence will in-
volve monitoring elements
of the treaty like the new
Nisga’a commercial fish-
ery, and not displacing the
Gitanyow,

“We were asked to
send extra officers to work
with the Nisga’a to help

“educate,” said Chris Drag-

seth of Fisheries and
“This is

not a reaction to beef up
our enforcement because
of the treaty,”

He said fisheries offi-
cers aren’t there to police
disputes between the two
tribal groups.

“Even if there was a
conflict, the RCMP deal
with it,” Dragseth said. .
“Those types of infractions
have nothing to do with
us.”

Williams: said the po-
tential conflict is the fault
of provincial and federal
governments for signing a
treaty with the Nisga’a be-
fore the claim overlap he-
tween the Nisga’a and Gi-
tanyow was resolved.

Now, he said, there's
been little attempt to clar-
ify what the rules will be
on the land while the Gita-
nyow still try to negotiate
a treaty.

“If people don’t deal
with it now there’s going
to be confusion and more
uncertainty,” Williams
predicted.

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