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Canada's First Nations are building the densest neighborhood in the country by reclaiming their ancestral land and defying NIMBYs
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“The idea is to create a legacy economic engine for the Nations to provide for their community members, whether that be the preservation and retention of culture, art, language, healthcare, any other kind of employment training procurement opportunities,” Cook said.
Sen̓áḵw survived a legal challenge last fall when a British Columbia Supreme Court judge rejected a claim that the local community wasn’t sufficiently engaged in the planning process.
Bates College environmental studies professor Tyler Harper has called this tendency for non-indigenous Canadians and Americans to stereotype indigenous communities as conservationists “sentimental racism.”
“Indigenous people are reduced to vehicles for timeless, pre-historical knowledge – wish fulfillment for white progressives dreaming of a prelapsarian age before capital and industry,” he wrote recently on X.
“The big picture problem is that the legacy of Indian removal is that it forced so many tribes onto marginal land that they are excluded from some of the highest value areas of the country,” Alex Armlovich, a senior housing-policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, told Business Insider.
“At a time when NIMBYism and permitting hangups are threatening America’s push for green industrial policy, a win-win alliance with Native American tribes could be exactly what this nation needs,” economist Noah Smith, wrote recently.
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