Returning species to this region pays homage to the deep ancestral ties that tribes have to this area. Experts thrilled after ...

Dec. 31—This past summer, Rick Desautel stopped alongside a road near Vallican, British Columbia, and gave a prayer to all the members of his tribe who had fought for decades for the Canadian ...

Richard Desautel went to the Supreme Court of Canada with the goal of proving the Sinixt First Nation's existence in Canada. (Submitted by Mark Underhill - image credit) "We're not going back to the ...

Shed antlers are judged by Neil Johnson, left, Corey Peone, center, and Jarred Erickson, right, a Tribal Councilman in the Nespelum district, during celebration of tribal member Rick Desautel's ...

The Sinixt First Nation is in the midst of an unprecedented Canadian court battle to win Aboriginal rights to its wildlife-rich traditional territory in B.C. by proving it is not extinct. The case, ...

NESPELEM, Wash. — There was celebration amongst members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and Sinixt Confederacy on Friday as the Canadian Supreme Court ruled in their favor. The ...

Toronto filmmaker Ali Kazimi has told a story of a B.C. First Nation declared extinct in 1956. A few years later, the Canadian and U.S. governments signed a treaty leading to the flooding of a ...

In a long-awaited decision, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Sinixt people, part of the twelve Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, have constitutionally protected hunting ...

The Sinixt case was scheduled to begin at the Supreme Court of Canada in April, 2020, but was postponed because of COVID-19. The Sinixt are interior Salish people, one of the first nations that lived ...

A First Nation declared extinct by the federal government over 60 years ago has won yet another court battle to have its existence recognized — this one in the province's highest court. The B.C. Court ...

Two weeks after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of Sinixt hunting rights, the head of the American tribe that launched the case is still excited. “I think my feet have finally hit the ...