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"Sun Peaks Resort and B.C. Government Assault on Secwepemc Camps a Threat to all Indigenous Peoples: Time for Action on the Ground to Commence"

The Chilcotin National Congress representatives have been in contact with the Secwepemc peoples from the Skwelkwek'welt Protection Center, following their forced removal from their traditional territory yesterday. The Chilcotin National Congress is a Council of Hereditary Chiefs.

The Sun Peaks Resort is obviously behind the actions of the provincial government and the RCMP in their plans to remove Secwepemc peoples from the area. We are ready to provide support on the ground to the Skwelkwek'welt Protection Center in order to defend their territory from outside aggression.

If Gordon Campbell's administration thinks they are going to get away with calling Indigenous peoples "trespassers" and using the police to remove them, then they have another thing coming.

The majority of the Indigenous communities in the South, Central interior of B.C. are not in the bogus B.C. Treaty Process, so the results of the provincial referendum will mean nothing to us. We will take what is ours, not negotiate for it.

The Secwepemc of the 1862 Neskonlith Douglas Reserve have told us they now want the Sun Peaks Resort to leave the area forever. We are ready to help convince the ski resort to look elsewhere to locate, perhaps back to Japan.