The School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, the Department of Law and Legal Studies and the Department of Sociology and present Older Than the Crown: The Sinixt Fight for Recognition of their Territory and Existence

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Please attend this event to learn more about the Sinixt fight for recognition of Tuesday, October 6, 2020 their territory and their existence in Canada, a struggle that will also take place in the Supreme Court of Canada in October. 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

Sinixt tribal member Rick Desautel was charged in 2010 with hunting as a non Registration required: resident and without a proper permit in Canada. Rick harvested an on the www.carleton.ca/socanth/cu-events/older-than- ancestral land of the Sinixt people in Vallican Canada. To the the-crown/ Sinixt, hunting on ancestral land is an aboriginal right gifted to them by Creator. A right that has legally been denied to the Sinixt people since 1956 when the Canadian government unjustly declared them extinct in Canada, despite the nearly 3,000 members existing on the Colville Indian Reservation in State. Now with the Desautel Hunting Case, the Sinixt people have a chance to not only bring light to their unjust extinction by the Canadian government, but also abolish the declaration completely.

This event will screen a 30 minute film of the case made by Native American filmmaker Derrick LaMere and then there will be an hour question and answer period with the following expert speakers:

Rick Desautel is a Sinixt Tribal Shelly Boyd is a member of the Derrick LaMere is an award Mark Underhill is a lawyer Member and Ceremonial Sn̓ ʕay̓ ckstx (Sinixt/) winning Native American practicing with Arvay Finlay Hunter. Rick is the subject of band of the Colville tribe. Her Filmmaker (Rocky Boy, Little LLP in Vancouver, B.C. He has the hunting case that brought work revolves around the recently Shell, Sinixt, Entiat, ) represented Rick Desautel the Sinixt people’s extinction to reversed declaration of extinction from Spokane Washington. throughout his journey to the the Canadian Supreme Court. of Sn̓ ʕay̓ ckstx people in Canada. Supreme Court of Canada.