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"This Is Our Land - Unceded Sovereign Secwepemc Territory."

Skwelkwelk'welt (Sun Peaks), Secwepemc Territory - On Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 12:00pm Native warriors, youth and Elders uprise at the Sun Peaks Resort. Natives will gather all weekend at the newly established Skwelkwek'welt Protection Centre #6, at the entrance to the Sun Peaks Resort and on Saturday will uprise against Sun Peaks and declare "no more conducting business-as-usual."

This month Sun Peaks has ordered and demanded Natives to leave our homes and Skwelkwek'welt Protection Centre at Skwelkwek'welt or they will take further action. Sun Peaks delivered this notice accompanied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) who held a gun to a Native youths head. This "No Indians Allowed" policy by Sun Peaks just proves that they are continuing their "Genocidal Regime." Sun Peaks has proven to us what they are capable of when on December 10, 2001 Sun Peaks employees gleefully bulldozed down and destroyed two permanent homes and two of our sacred sweatlodges, which left Native youth and babies homeless during the winter in their own Homeland.

These acts of GENOCIDE by Sun Peaks and the government will not be tolerated. Secwepemc Elders have stated to our People that they want Sun Peaks off our mountain completely and out of our Territory. It is now time to take our lives and future of our mountains-Skwelkwek'welt into our own hands. Sun Peaks Resort Corporation will face the economic hardships of waging war on the Indigenous Peoples of this Land and Sun Peaks will not win. "We will uprise! The uprising will continue!"

For more information contact, Native Youth Movement, Nicole or Akila, Cell: 250-371-0361 or Phone: 250-679-3413.