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Resource June 19, 2018

Meet the Journalist: Saul G. Elbein

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Salmon fisherman Malcolm Sampson, an ethnic-Tsimshian and member of the Lax Kwalaams First Nation. Image by Jim McAuley. British Columbia, 2017.
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People of the Kelp

Up Canada's West Coast in search of the world's biggest unreported land conflict.

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Gitxsan activists on contested Lelu Island preparing a red cedar log as a totem pole -- the sign that they are claiming the island in the face of the Canadian government. Image by Saul Elbein. Canada, 2017.
Gitxsan activists on contested Lelu Island preparing a red cedar log as a totem pole -- the sign that they are claiming the island in the face of the Canadian government. Image by Saul Elbein. Canada, 2017.

For more than a century, British Columbia's First Nations have fought a quiet, coordinated legal struggle to regain control of their traditional lands. In doing so, they have formed a barrier to Canada's oil and gas firms' attempts to reach the sea, as journalist Saul Elbein writes in Foreign Policy.

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