[van-announce] Rally/March Against F.N.G.A.

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Rally/March Against F.N.G.A.

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Open Letter to all Indigenous
Communities/Organizations in B.C.
Invitation to Rally to Oppose the F.N.G.A.

Chiefs, Community Members, Friends:

The Liberal government is ramming through the First
Nations Governance Act.  The policies of the F.N.G.A.
are a recycling of the Liberal government's 1969 White
Paper and represent a concerted and desperate effort
to terminate our rights as Indigenous Peoples. The
F.N.G.A.:

    * Attempts to define and limit our inherent right
of Self-Determination (including Governance) Rights;
    * Further imposes a corporate/municipal government
structure on our communities (including on communities
who currently follow a hereditary system and have
never come under the Indian Act);
    * Puts Indigenous Peoples in the position of
administering our own poverty, while not acknowledging
or respecting our Aboriginal Title or Rights;
    * Terminates Canada's on-going fiduciary
obligations to our peoples;
    * Is being unilaterally imposed on Indigenous
Peoples, without our Consent. 

The F.N.G.A. is a deadly serious violation of our
inherent and constitutionally protected rights, and
must be stopped.  However, Chretien is fanatically
determined to pass this legislation, and only a 
mass display of our opposition can stop it.  The
U.B.C.I.C. membership has been invited to join other
Indigenous Peoples in opposing this Act, in a rally
organized by the Indigenous Peoples Grassroots
Movement.  
Please plan on traveling to be there to make our
collective opposition heard:

Rally/March, June 4th - 3:00
Start:  Grandview Park (Commercial Drive corner of
William St)
March down Hastings Street to
1088 Burrard (Sheraton Wall Centre) for Rally at 6:00

For further information, please contact Lana Lowe at
(604) 612-5109.

In Solidarity,
Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs

[Original Signed by Chief Stewart Phillip]

Chief Stewart Phillip
President


<B>Where:</B>
Grandview Park (Commercial Drive corner of William St)
<B>When:</B>
Wednesday, 4th of June 2003 from 3:00 PM until approximately 7:00 PM

For more information
	Lana Lowe
604-612-5109


This event is being organised by Union of B.C. Indian Chiegs