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<title>Blog Friends of Nemaiah Valley</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:30:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Congratulations to Xeni Gwet'in Councilor Marilyn Baptiste</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2015-04/congratulations-to-xeni-gwet-in-councilor-marilyn-baptiste</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:48:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Councilor Marilyn Baptiste is the 2015 North American recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize - the world&#39;s largest award honoring grassroots environmental activists that parallels the Nobel awards in their level of distinction and achievement.&nbsp; Marilyn has been a tireless defender of ...]]></description>
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<title>Taseko Mines Ltd. Takes Wilderness Committee to Court</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2015-02/taseko-mines-ltd-takes-wilderness-committee-to-court</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:12:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In late January, a defamation case filed by Taseko Mines against the Wilderness Committee (WC) began in Vancouver.&nbsp; Before a crowd of supporters, Joe Foy, WC&#39;s National Campaign Director, stated that the intent of Taseko&#39;s suit is, &quot;meant to chill us out or to quiet us down, out ...]]></description>
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<title>Wild Horse DNA Report</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2015-02/wild-horse-dna-report</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:58:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Wild Horse DNA Report:&nbsp; In early January, &quot;A Preliminary Genetic Study of the Wild Horse in the Brittany Triangle&quot; was released.&nbsp; This report, prepared for the Xeni Gwet&#39;in First Nations, FONV (co-funders of the report) and the Valhalla Wilderness Society, was co-authored by ...]]></description>
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<title>McCrory Report Supports Tribal Park Designation</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2014-10/mccrory-report-supports-tribal-park-designation</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:16:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Given existing circumstances of aboriginal rights and title for part of the study area, a Tribal Park designation by the Xeni Gwet&#39;in and Yunesit&#39;in should be considered as a further declaration of First Nations protectio, reinforcing the 1989 Aboriginal Presereve declaration and the ...]]></description>
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<title>Tribal Park Declaration and Totem Pole Raising</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2014-10/tribal-park-declaration-and-totem-pole-raising</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:47:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Saturday, October 4th was another extraordinary day for the Tsilhqot&#39;in people who have&nbsp; already been rewarded this year with two major victories after many years of struggle:&nbsp; the rejection again by the federal government&nbsp; of the Prosperity Mine project at Fish Lake (Teztan ...]]></description>
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<title>Dasiqox Tribal Park</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2014-09/dasiqox-tribal-park</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:33:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sept. 10, 2014.&nbsp; The Tsilhqot&#39;in National Government announces the creation of a new Tribal Park for B.C.&nbsp; This is a historic development in the process of protecting Tsilhqot&#39;in lands which we at FONV have dedicated ourselves to for the past fifteen years.

This is a dream ...]]></description>
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<title>Historic Meeting on Traditional Tsilhqot'in Land</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2014-09/historic-meeting-on-traditional-tsilhqot-in-land</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:37:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[September 10, 2014.&nbsp; B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Minister of Aboriginal Relations, John Rustad, met with the Tsilhqot&#39;in Chiefs, on traditional Tsilhqot&#39;in land, marking the first time a B.C. Premier has agreed to meet with the Tsilhqot&#39;in Nation on their territory.&nbsp; The ...]]></description>
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<title>Celebration of Title Victory</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2014-09/celebration-of-title-victory</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:09:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Following on the Supreme Court of Canada&#39;s historic declaration of Aboriginal title, FONV hosted a celebration of this victory on Saturday, July 5th.&nbsp; A banner was signed by all who came and was later presented to Chief and council at the Xeni Gwet&#39;in Band Office.

	&nbsp;
While we ...]]></description>
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<title>Tsilhqot'in Title Case Makes History</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2014-06/tsilhqot-in-title-case-makes-history</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2014 12:21:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Held:&nbsp; The appeal should be allowed and a declaration of Aboriginal title over the area requested should be granted. A declaration that British Columbia breached its duty to consult owed to the Tsilhqot&rsquo;in Nation should also be granted&quot;.

On June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court ...]]></description>
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<title>NO! to Proposed New Prosperity Mine</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2014-03/no-to-proposed-new-prosperity-mine</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW PROSPERITY MINE REJECTION - FEBRUARY 26, 2014
Today the Minister of the Environment, Hon. Leona Aglukkaq, issued a decision statement regarding the proposed New Prosperity Mine in British Columbia&#39;s Chilcotin district, concluding that &ldquo;the New Prosperity Mine ...]]></description>
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<title>We Stand Strong/Flashmob Video</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2013-12/we-stand-strong-flashmob-video</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:46:00 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On December 3rd, the Tsilhqot&#39;in people and their allies organized a mass dance ceremony in front of Taseko Mines&#39; office in downtown Vancouver. (Photo of Linda Haig-Brown, Helen Haig-Brown, Beka Solo.)

The message sent to Taseko:&nbsp; &quot;Tsilhqot&rsquo;in (Chilcotin) people have ...]]></description>
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<title>Second CEAA Panel Gives New Prosperity Project Another Scathing Review</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2013-11/second-ceaa-panel-gives-new-prosperity-project-another-scathing-review</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:25:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A second strongly negative CEAA Panel report released October 31, 2013 (after an initial damning CEAA Panel report in 2010 and a federal thumbs down in 2010) makes it strike three against Taseko&#39;s proposed &quot;New Prosperity&quot; mine.&nbsp; Responses from all of us who have written, spoken ...]]></description>
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<title>Watershed Moment: Opportunity to Navigate a Path to Reconciliation</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2013-10/watershed-moment-opportunity-to-navigate-a-path-to-reconciliation</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:22:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recognition of Aboriginal title is the starting point for Canada, as a nation, to finally start dealing honourably with First Nations.

&quot;First Nations want to achieve reconciliation with the Crown through honourable negotiations and partnerships. We seek respectful and principled ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Williams Lake, B.C. (October 30, 2013):&nbsp; Beginning on October 30th, Tsilhqot&rsquo;in Elders, youth, Chief Roger William from Xeni Gwet&rsquo;in, Councillors, honoured delegates such as Grand Chief Stewart Phillip from the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, and Chief Bob Chamberlin, UBCIC ...]]></description>
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<title>Tsilhqot'in Chiefs in Ottawa</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2013-10/tsilhqot-in-chiefs-in-ottawa</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 07:47:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ottawa: Oct. 8, 2013:&nbsp; B.C.&rsquo;s Tsilhqot&rsquo;in Nation is calling on the Harper government to listen to its own scientists and ignore the political lobbying by Taseko Mines Ltd. (TML) and the mining industry that could undermine the Environmental Assessment process in the case of the ...]]></description>
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<title>CEAA Panel Hearing Reports funded by FONV</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2013-08/ceaa-panel-hearing-reports-funded-by-fonv</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here are links to the reports that FONV funded and presented to the 2013 hearings re &quot;New Prosperity&quot; mine.&nbsp; These cover implications of the proposed mine to: grizzly bears; cultural and social-ecological impacts on the region surrounding Teztan Biny; cumulative effects, watershed ...]]></description>
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<title>Government Concerned about New Prosperity Mine Proposal</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2013-08/government-concerned-about-new-prosperity-mine-proposal</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:50:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Both federal and provincial government experts have deep concerns with the New &quot;Prosperity&quot; Mine proposal.&nbsp; The issues raised by these experts during the CEAA Panel hearings are in regard to the deteriorating Fish Lake water quality and unproven &quot;aquarium&quot; lake ...]]></description>
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<title>Fish Lake will be Dead in 10 Years if Mine Proceeds</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2013-08/fish-lake-will-be-dead-in-10-years-if-mine-proceeds</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:13:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So says Dr. John Stockner from the UBC Fisheries Centre.&nbsp; The Tsilhqot&#39;in National Government today issued a News Release with this dire warning. &quot;I feel like a town cried because what I have to tell you after considerable thought, I am of the firm opinion that within a decade, Fish ...]]></description>
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<title>Federal and Provincial Departments Refute Proponent's Claims Mine Bid is Environmentally Sound</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2013-08/federal-and-provincial-departments-refute-proponent-s-claims-mine-bid-is-environmentally-sound</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 09:11:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Williams Lake, B.C. August 1, 2013:&nbsp; Evidence from federal and provincial mining, environment and fisheries officials has raised serious concerns about Taseko Mines Ltd&#39;s revised submission for a massive open pit low-grade ore mine at Teztan Biny, Fish Lake.

As the Federal Review ...]]></description>
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<title>TNG Issues Press Release re Round Two of Mine Hearings</title>
<link>http://www.fonv.ca/news_and_events//2013-06/tng-issues-press-release-re-round-two-of-mine-hearings</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:02:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tsilhqot&rsquo;in Nation Prepares for Public Hearings for Controversial New Prosperity Mine Proposal as Taseko Mines Ltd. Refuses to Answer Direct Requests from the Panel

June 20, 2013, Tsilhqot&rsquo;in Territory, B.C:&nbsp; The Tsilhqot&rsquo;in National Government responded to today&rsquo;s ...]]></description>
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