Ardith Walkem

The example of the Siska watershed highlights important differences between the philosophies and worldviews that guide decision making in indigenous and Canadian societies. When discussing the BC government’s decision to allow the logging of the Siska watershed (then the last untouched watershed in the Nlaka’pamux territory on the eastern side of the Fraser River and a place of tremendous spiritual and cultural importance), a Nlaka’pamux elder once told me that the problem with the newcomers was that they were famished.