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These rocks in -scribed with epistemol-ogies that have endured across millennia gesture at something more permanent than paper edicts, digital currencies and national governments, connecting Tallio and me to the hands and truths of the First Peoples of this place: another way of being, another potential. These are the lands of Tallio's people, who are emerging as protagonists in an Indigenous epic unfolding on this unconquered expanse of Pacific coast. While Clyde tracks our patrol through linguistic history, Ernie uses an app on his standard issue Guardian Watchmen tablet to collect data. ON A MAY MORNING in British Columbia's Bella Coola Valley, Clyde Tallio, a long-limbed 31-year-old Nuxalk intellectual, and I walk a dirt road that gives way to a forest path up a bank from Thorsen Creek, swollen with spring melt. [Extracted from the article]

Unlike most Cree people her age, Maggie did not attend the residential school and instead learned the skills of Cree womanhood from her mother in Mistissini. ABEL BOSUM AND I SIT on a bench beside the shaptuan, an oblong Cree structure that stands roughly at the centre of the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree Nation's administrative buildings. Mining and logging (left and above) in the area are largely responsible for the repeated relocations of the local Cree, such as Cynthia and Maggie Wapachee (top left) who still live outside Oujé-Bougoumou (top right). ABEL BOSUM, GRAND CHIEF of the Grand Council of the Crees, plants his dress shoes where his parents' house once sat on a thin wooded spit that curls into Doré Lake like a dog's tongue into a bowl of water. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses how the Guardian Watchmen program build its vision of conservation model being adopted by Indigenous Peoples across Canada. It explains how the Nuxalk established their Guardian Watchmen program to protect, monitor and restore natural and cultural resources in cooperation with eight other communities. It mentions the return of territories and resources to Indigenous protection and the secure jobs provided by the Guardian Watchmen to First Nations people.

The article offers the author's insights regarding the Tribal Canoe Journey, an annual trans-national Indigenous gathering and voyage in Pacific Northwest held by the Quinault Nation tribe. Topics include the participation of the Squaxin Island Tribe, the event which symbolizes the tribes reclaim tradition and territory, and the aspects of how the coast people embraces the vessels as a tool empowering decolonization process.