Meaning of Tŝilhqot'in | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“He said Tŝilhqot'in members often face racism and discrimination in health-care settings, such as hospital emergency rooms, and they need provincial and federal help to improve access to treatment and recovery services.”

“While federal language frames the agreement as part of an “evolving recognition” of Indigenous Rights, the Tŝilhqot’in Chiefs emphasized that is not new authority but the reclamation of responsibilities that were disrupted through generations of colonial child apprehension.”

“Some details have faded with time. But like most Tsilhqot’in people, she recalls the major themes as clearly as if they were carved in stone: the six chiefs went to war to protect Tsilhqot’in territory. They were tried and hanged as murderers after coming to what they thought would be peace talks. Their deaths are part of a long pattern of Tsilhqot’in people fighting to protect their land and an equally long pattern of betrayal by Canadian governments.”

“The Tsilhqot’in solar farm emerges as 16 neat rows of silvery panels on the tawny and green-mottled Chilcotin Plateau’s landscape just off Highway 20, about 80 kilometres west of Williams Lake on the drive to Bella Coola.”

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