HOW IS THIS ACTION DIFFERENT FROM THE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS COLONIZATION?
Social workers from B.C.’s Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) were denied entry into Gitanmaax reserve in Hazelton to take back a six-year-old child at the end of her scheduled visit time.
The child, a member of the Git’luuhl’um’hetxwit (a traditional wilp/house group of the Gitxsan Nation), was visiting her maternal family in Hazelton. The social workers were to collect her and take her back to Ontario where she previously resided with a foster family.
The band continues their battle against the province of British Columbia regarding logging on their lands.