» NEWS: New treaties raise hope but process still has harsh critics
The family of Chief Bill Cranmer and members of the Namgis First Nation know first hand the damage done by the way things were.In the days when British Columbia’s indigenous people were considered fit only for assimilation, governments stripped away their land, virtually wiped out their language by shunting them to hated residential schools, and devastated their long, rich culture by outlawing the potlatch and carting off their treasured masks and artifacts to far-away museums and private collectors.
