[news] Surviving Canada: Tahltan Nation

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The Stikine Canyon is one of the more beautiful places in the world of nature; the area is loaded with grizzlies, brown and black bears, moose, grouse, bighorn sheep, elk and every river is traditionally a run for salmon of many kinds. The north end of the Coast Mountain range runs through the whole of Tahltan Territory, very imposing and producing creek water that, to this day, is "potable" and so clean you can barely taste it. The reason that all of these things described remain true is the resistance of the Tahltan Nation to Canadian colonialism, successfully, in recent decades.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/19/121717/456