Quaker backing helps Canada’s Tsilhqot’in people

Canadian Friends congratulate the Tsilhqot'in people on a historic victory

by Tara Craig 1st August 2014

Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) last month congratulated the Tsilhqot’in people on an historic victory for the rights of indigenous peoples.

Following a campaign supported by CFSC and Amnesty International Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada recognised the right of the Tsilhqot’in people to own, control and enjoy the benefits of approximately 2,000km2 of land at the heart of their traditional territory in central British Columbia.