After decades of colonial oppression, including the removal of children from their families, forced sterilisation and abuse in residential schools, the Heiltsuk Nation has ratified its first written constitution.
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Aimed at ‘renewing and reclaiming ancestral laws’, the document enshrines a framework in which power and decision-making is shared by hereditary leadership, the elected chief and council, and the nation’s women’s council
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