“DRIPA” Strikes Again – More of the same in British Columbia:
“‘First Nations’ requests so far include removing certain Crown lands from within Okanagan Falls’ proposed municipal boundaries, and renaming the municipality using the ‘First Nations’ interpretation of Okanagan Falls. Rumours have circulated about requests for Crown land parcels to be excluded from the new municipality’s boundaries, including trails popular with residents and tourists.”
“The community that tried to take control of its own affairs by voting to incorporate itself, is at the whim of a provincial process it doesn’t control and has no input into, until it is over.”
“The Osoyoos Indian Band {604 people} is seeking a name change for Okanagan Falls as it incorporates into a municipality. The province is proposing a dual name that includes the English name and a traditional Syilx (“nqilxʷcən/nsyilxcən” Okanagan) name to align with the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ Act” (DRIPA).
“Chief Clarence Louie asserts that the area is an important site for their ‘nation’ {Band}—containing a former reserve—and that name changes are long overdue. He noted that ‘Indigenous’ rights are not up for a public vote.” {!?!}
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“A small community in B.C.’s South Okanagan may have to undergo a name change.
“The possible change comes after Okanagan Falls voted to incorporate to become B.C.’s newest municipality … The community is around 15 kilometres south of Penticton, B.C., at the foot of Skaha Lake. It has a population of just under 2,300 people…
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“Residents voted 53% in favour of incorporation last March. However, becoming the first B.C. community to incorporate since the province adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) in 2019 means the process is taking place within a changed political landscape.
“The legislation specifically states that ‘Indigenous’ {sic} people have the right to
“designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons“.
“B.C.’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs told ‘CBC News’ it is working in partnership with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen and the Osoyoos Indian Band to explore how the community’s name can ‘better reflect’ the original language, culture and heritage of the area.
“We are being asked by the Province to consider a name change. If that had been the case, our feeling is that should have been made known prior to the referendum” {!},
said Matt Taylor, chief electoral area director for the regional district.
“He said many people who voted in support of incorporation did so because they wanted to see more local decision making.
“If the province would like us to consider a name change, that’s the responsibility at this point of a mayor and council“ {!},
he said.
“Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band said name changes are an important step and are long overdue.
“Okanagan Falls is an important site for our people, we had a reserve there, no one can deny that, and {forced, and unapproved by the citizens} name changes are happening in this country“,
he said.
“The chief also disagreed that renaming Okanagan Falls should be a decision for the new mayor and council.
“When it comes to {one-way} ‘reconciliation’ and land claims and ‘Indigenous’ people having rights, those aren’t up for a vote“,
he said.
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–‘Okanagan Falls may need to change its name in order to become B.C.’s newest municipality’,
Tiffany Goodwein, CBC News, Aug. 09, 2025
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/okanagan-falls-name-change-1.7603783
It’s also a land grab:
“‘First Nations’ requests so far include removing certain Crown lands from within Okanagan Falls’ proposed municipal boundaries, and possibly renaming the municipality using the ‘First Nations’ interpretation of Okanagan Falls. Rumours have circulated about requests for Crown land parcels to be excluded from the new municipality’s boundaries, including trails popular with residents and tourists.”
–‘Incorporation of OK Falls in the era of DRIPA’,
Keith Lacey, Penticton Herald, Aug. 9, 2025 * Updated Aug. 11, 2025
https://www.pentictonherald.ca/news/article_4aa1b995-0b8e-43fa-9383-84ce8e5e63cd.html
“When the tiny community of Okanagan Falls voted earlier this year to incorporate into a municipality, its residents thought they were getting — well, Okanagan Falls. But five months later, mired in delays and silence from the B.C. government, nobody seems sure whether the area south of Penticton will actually become Okanagan Falls. It may have to change its name to something else entirely.
“The core of the issue is the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act” (DRIPA), which mandates B.C. align its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in consultation with ‘Indigenous’ Peoples {NOTE: Canadian Aboriginals are ‘Indigenous’ to Siberia and Mongolia.}. The BC NDP under the Eby government has interpreted this as a commitment to consult ‘First Nations’ communities on virtually all aspects of provincial government decision-making and public land use.
“Okanagan Falls and its 2,700 residents are the first to vote to incorporate since DRIPA was passed into law in 2019. While the Province might have just rubber-stamped the request in the past, and issued what are called the “letters patent” to make the municipality legal, now that process appears much more complicated.
“Appears is the key word, because the BC NDP government and the minister responsible for municipal affairs, Christine Boyle, haven’t said much publicly about the issue at all. On Thursday, under rising pressure, the government issued a statement saying it would try to approve the letters patent by Spring 2026, after a delay of more than a year.
“Through collaboration, consultation and co-operation with the Osoyoos Indian Band, and discussions with relevant community representatives, many different perspectives have been brought forward regarding different aspects of the incorporation, including the official name”,
read the statement.
“The Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs has appointed a facilitator to help finalize the Letters Patent by Spring 2026 {Where is it?}.”
“Boyle was not made available for an interview.
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‘Community caught in closed-door process’
“The slow and unclear path has left many in the community frustrated.
“They wanted to become a municipality in control of their own affairs, and now they’ve been caught in this process that nobody seems to clearly understand or articulate and is happening from all appearances behind closed doors”,
Boundary-Similkameen MLA Donegal Wilson said in an interview.
“The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, province, the Osoyoos Indian Band and others are now locked in backroom negotiations over what happens next. That includes if the community will be allowed to call itself Okanagan Falls, will be mandated to choose an ‘Indigenous’ name {That won’t work} or could come to some sort of hybrid compromise. There also appears to be discussion about Crown land and compensation for the local ‘First Nations’.
“͞The Osoyoos Indian Band is committed to working with the Province and the RDOS on an incorporation process that is compliant with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and that addresses our priorities on the naming and boundaries of the proposed new municipality”,
Osoyoos Indian Band Chief Clarence Louie said in the government’s statement.
‘DRIPA impact not revealed until after referendum’
“The process has proven deeply divisive in the community. The incorporation vote itself was a five-year process, and the referendum held in March passed by a narrow margin of 53%. Although it will result in a tax increase for locals, the move has been pitched as a way for an ailing community to have more control over land, business and services through an elected mayor and council.
“The incorporation debate did not include any mention from the provincial government about the impact of DRIPA, whether the community could choose its own name or if it would even be allowed to form a community without negotiated consent with the’First Nation’ {End Race Based Law!}.
“The residents of Okanagan Falls, when they made the vote, didn’t know that process”,
said Wilson.
“It wasn’t shared with them… and now, after they voted to incorporate, these new concessions have come forward.”
“The result has been heated public meetings, including a town hall in mid-August where the local newspaper reported that “many in the crowd expressed anger over the lack of progress, and several said they no longer support incorporation at all”. Local officials are now wary about commenting publicly about the issue.
“Neither has the B.C. government acknowledged publicly that its five-month secretive process to slow-play the legal approval of the incorporation may be pitting residents against ‘Indigenous’ leaders and actively undermining the community’s continued support.
“But this pattern has played out before. Last year, the government was forced to backtrack from proposed changes to the “Land Act” to give ‘First Nations’ co-governance over Crown lands, after surprised British Columbians, who weren’t aware government was even considering such a move, expressed concern over the scope and scale of the changes.
“It also had to step back and rework an agreement with the Shíshálh {Sechelt} ‘Nation’ {a ‘self-governing’ ‘nation’ of 1,760 people} on the Sunshine Coast that banned some people from creating docks on the water, after news the deal had been brokered behind closed doors “Nation-to-nation” without the input of local residents.
{BACKGROUND:
‘All Is Not Well In B.C.’ (‘Parallel Governments’ and Property Rights) {September 19, 2015}:
“The first issue is a governance question. Are British Columbians to be ruled by a government (in this case, the Sechelt ‘First Nation’…) in which we have no vote or voice? This is basic and an affront to democracy.”
https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/all-is-not-well-in-b-c/ }
“And the administration of Premier David Eby kept secret a contentious $100-million agreement and land transfer it had signed with the Shíshálh ‘nation’ on Aug. 16, 2024, until two months after the provincial election — perhaps recognizing such disclosure could harm the election chances of its NDP candidate in the region.
“The lack of transparency by the Province has led to criticism that it puts ‘First Nations’ in an untenable situation where they face backlash from local residents over ‘First Nations’ {Indian tribes/Bands} consultation processes the BC NDP asks them to participate in and then seems intent on keeping secret.
“It’s very hard for the general public to catch up to understand why those decisions happened or how they came to become the new direction”,
said Wilson.
“And it generates racism, which is unnecessary. Clear communication of all the priorities, I think, would clarify.”
“Wilson is calling on Boyle to immediately issue the letters patent to Okanagan Falls, allow it to elect its mayor and council, and then leave the matter of naming and ‘reconciliation’ to the new, locally-accountable officials to negotiate with the Osoyosos and Penticton Indian Bands.
“Instead, the community that tried to take control of its own affairs by voting to incorporate itself, is at the whim of a provincial process it doesn’t control and has no input into until it is over.”
–‘Okanagan Falls’ residents sideswiped by secret DRIPA negotiations’,
Rob Shaw, Northern Beat, August 21, 2025
https://northernbeat.ca/opinion/okanagan-falls-residents-sideswiped-by-secret-dripa-negotiations/
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The Provincial government’s ‘consultation’ page:
https://engage.gov.bc.ca/govtogetherbc/engagement/okanaganfalls/
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VIDEO:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7177462
“The causes of “reconciliation” and “decolonization”, are turned into a permanent regime of racial political privilege.”
“The likely renaming of the small British Columbia community of Okanagan Falls exemplifies the toxicity, unworkability, and power of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) and “decolonization” more broadly. It is a top-down, legally-binding process, not an organic or democratic one.
“DRIPA, passed by the B.C. NDP government in 2019, requires the Province to align its laws with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which includes recognizing and restoring traditional ‘Indigenous’ place names. The mandate to rename Okanagan Falls stems from these legal obligations.
{For starters, Canadian Aboriginals are ‘Indigenous’ to Siberia and Mongolia.}
“A dual name has been proposed by the Province as a compromise, in both the English and local ‘Indigenous’ Syilx language, partially to appease the Osoyoos Indian Band, whose leadership is resolute on the matter {Is there any Aboriginal leadership that isn’t “resolute”? They are bullies by nature…}. The potential Syilx name remains undetermined.
“Chief Clarence Louie said,
“When it comes to reconciliation and land claims and ‘Indigenous’ people having rights, those aren’t up for a vote.”
{Because modern Democracy and tribalism are inherently incompatible…}
“This is the South Africanization of B.C., in which an ideology of historical accusation, and the causes of “reconciliation” and “decolonization”, are turned into a permanent regime of racial political privilege, with undemocratic renamings only part of it. Unlike South Africa, Canada has no legacy of apartheid, and there is no reason for us to conduct our politics as if such a legacy exists.
“What we call a place matters greatly. If it did not, those on the political Left and radical ‘Indigenous’ activists would not devote so much time and energy to changing place names.
“After the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa’s new, supposedly post-racial government for the “Rainbow Nation” also began to wrap itself in the language of ‘reconciliation’. Rather than becoming a movement for national healing, the politics that followed evolved into something that included almost punitive dispossession of property, vicious rhetoric, and history wars. Sound familiar?
“Much of Canada is walking the same road, especially in B.C., and DRIPA has been made into a legal weapon. Following rulings that found DRIPA was legally binding to all past and future laws, rather than merely a guideline, NDP Premier David Eby attempted to suspend the legislation.
“He stopped himself in his tracks after the ‘First Nations’ {Indian} Leadership Council (‘FN’LC) warned that any amendments without its permission would result in the pursuit of “every available avenue, legal, political and through direct action”.
{They are bullies…}
“Faced with a situation that stopped barely short of open rebellion, Eby backed down. New powers have been unintentionally {?} ceded to unelected ‘Indigenous’ authorities, and they will fight to keep them. These powers include the ability to change what is on the maps of the province.
“Regarding democracy, the true spirit of “reconciliation” and “decolonization” has driven a wedge through Powell River, a small city on the B.C. coast. The local Tla’amin ‘Nation’ has demanded that the city be renamed, and has rejected a referendum or opinion poll on that change, arguing that
“the human rights of a minority should not be decided by a majority.”
{Such astounding ‘logic’!? The minority ‘rights’ include the right to name the place where the majority lives…?}
“Even Powell River’s own Joint Working Group has said a poll is “not the appropriate tool” {No – a referendum is}. Local power players have staked much on the renaming. After a wave of pushback, they are afraid of losing in the public square.
“The replacement of Powell River is already occurring, piece by piece and without public consultation. Powell River General Hospital was renamed in 2022, followed by the School Board, both replacing “Powell River” with the name “qathet”, which means “working together”. Furthermore, the regional Vancouver Island University satellite campus was renamed to “tiwšɛmawtxʷ”, meaning “house of learning”, to eliminate references to Israel Powell, a controversial colonial official.
“Very ugly racial language has accompanied these changes. Former Tla’amin leader Maynard Harry went on the record declaring that “the ‘White’ people in Canada are subhuman because of what they’ve allowed to happen”. He repeated the word “subhuman” several {15} times. There is no healing to be found in those words, and they make suspect the very notion that healing was ever the goal, rather than power.
{‘White people are subhuman’, says Tla’amin Leader’ (Tla’amin) {May 19, 2026}:
“‘White’ people need to acknowledge their culture is lost. ‘White’ settler culture is a lost culture because nothing good defines ‘White’ people. If I insult ‘White’ people, I don’t give a sh-t.”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2026/05/19/white-people-are-subhuman-says-tlaamin-leader/ }
“South Africa has already renamed more than 1,500 communities since 2000 on the basis of Race, {one-way} ‘reconciliation’, and retribution … These changes were often made despite public surveys indicating fierce opposition, including from some ‘Black’ South Africans, from the residents of these communities. These name changes have occurred alongside land and property seizures in the “public interest”, often with little or no compensation.
“Even if one were to concede that South Africa’s renaming policy is justified on the basis of correcting historic wrongs, that doesn’t justify emulating those policies in Canada.
“Even so, the B.C. NDP has fully embraced this worldview, such as Premier Eby calling B.C.’s origins an “original colonial mistake”, while his MLA Rohini Arora said in the legislature that India, Pakistan, and Canada “share the same colonizer”.
“In this worldview, B.C. is a sin that must be purged and remade into something new. The NDP has authorized literature that declares the term “British Columbian” to be exclusionary. It publishes official guides for immigrants where the only history section is about the mistreatment of ‘First Nations’. Newcomers are being taught to despise B.C. before even signing a lease.
“B.C. is obviously not materially, economically or historically comparable to South Africa, but its political narratives are converging. ‘Black’ nationalists in South Africa chant “Kill the Boer” as a threat to ‘White’ farmers, while ‘Indigenous’ chiefs in B.C. speak of non-‘Indigenous’ people as “subhuman”.
“In both cases, enmity and resentment mobilize power players and move politics. Obviously, {publicly} calling people “subhuman” is not a common practice or sentiment among ‘Indigenous’ leaders in B.C., but it reveals that extreme sentiment is indeed present in ‘decolonization’ discourse.
“B.C. does not need to import these crude politics. Its towns, laws, parks, and mountains belong to its citizens, not modern racial categories.
“Let the people of Okanagan Falls and Powell River choose to keep the names that they and their children have grown up with. Let B.C. not be renamed, replaced, and remade beyond recognition. Let us not walk on the road to becoming South Africa.”
–‘The South Africanization of B.C.’,
Geoff Russ, National Post, May 21, 2026
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/geoff-russ-the-south-africanization-of-b-c
From 2015:
“Louie participated in the singing of “O Canada” at the start of the meeting, but he told Rotarians during his talk that it made him uncomfortable.”
“We’re changing the name of Haynes Point and I know the majority of Osoyoos residents ain’t going to like it. That’s fine. There’s a lot of things that you {?}, that people did to us that we didn’t like, but we had to suck it up. So when the time comes and the media interviews me about the non-natives not liking the name changes, well, you know what — suck it up.”
“If residents of Osoyoos aren’t happy that the name of Haynes Point Provincial Park will soon be changed to an aboriginal name, they can “suck it up”, says Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB). Louie was guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Osoyoos where he delivered a speech of more than 40 minutes, mostly about the injustices ‘First Nations’ {aboriginal} people have experienced from non-natives since the time of colonization.
“To non-native people, Haynes might be a hero, but to us he’s a land thief”,
Louie said, referring to John Carmichael Haynes, the judge, customs officer and rancher after whom the point and provincial park are named.
{http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/haynes_john_carmichael_11E.html }
“He stole 4,000 acres of our most prime acreage, all our bottomland from the head of Osoyoos Lake to north of Oliver”,
said Louie.
“That’s a historical fact. We’re changing the name of Haynes Point and I know the majority of Osoyoos residents ain’t going to like it. That’s fine. There’s a lot of things that you {?}, that people did to us that we didn’t like, but we had to suck it up. So when the time comes and the media interviews me about the non-natives not liking the name changes, well, you know what — suck it up.”
“Louie made the comments at the end of a more general talk about the history of native and non-native relations in North America.
“In February, the province and the OIB announced an agreement that will see the OIB manage Haynes Point and Okanagan Falls provincial parks and rename both parks and McIntyre Bluff to ‘traditional’ {unpronounceable} ‘nsyilxcen’ (Okanagan) place names. The agreement followed the discovery last year of bones buried at Haynes Point that were radiocarbon dated to about 1,224 years old – proving that they belonged to a ‘First Nations’ ancestor {No, that’s just an assumption…}.
“Louie said the provincial government wanted the OIB “to be good little Indians” and dig the bones up and bury them on the reserve. He asked a provincial cabinet minister when graves of non-natives no longer mattered.
“I told him we’re not going to move those bones”,
Louie said.
“We could do what happened in Ipperwash”,
he said, referring to a 1995 violent confrontation at a provincial park in Ontario when police killed an unarmed {or so it’s claimed} native protester.
“I told the government ‘Your armies don’t scare us, your RCMP don’t scare us, your SWAT teams don’t scare us, because if you want to have a battle like they did at Ipperwash, we could have the same battle here at Haynes Point because we wouldn’t even have to make phone calls’. If a standoff is going to occur, there’d be natives from Ontario with us over there.”
{What an arrogant, foolish and irresponsible thing to say…}
“When Louie finished his speech, he quickly left, skipping lunch, for a Band council meeting… Rotarians and guests were left discussing his comments among themselves, some reacting positively and some negatively.
“When club President Judy Miller-Bennett thanked him, she told Louie:
“You only speak from your heart and you told us something today that I think we all needed to hear {!}, so I really appreciate it.”
“When the “happy bucks” time came in the meeting, however, and Rotarians put a dollar into a fund and tell of something that makes them happy, one club member joked:
“I’m happy that I held my tongue”.
“Louie began his talk by praising the first item in the Rotary Club’s ethical Four-Way Test: “Is it the truth?”
“You can be entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts”,
he said. Among the “facts” he emphasized was that government doesn’t give things to native people. Rather, they are forced by their own court system to recognize the treaty rights of ‘First Nations’ {aboriginal tribes}.
{That’s nonsense and he knows it. Aboriginals are given much, much more than is stipulated in the treaties – which anyone can confirm by simply reading one. And his tribe hasn’t even signed a Treaty, so why would they be entitled to “treaty rights”?}
“Government agencies, he said, talk about stakeholders.
“I tell government if there’s ever a stakeholders meeting, whether it’s provincially or federally, don’t invite the Osoyoos Indian Band”,
said Louie.
“We’re {Race} ‘rights’ holders, not stakeholders.”
“Louie participated in the singing of “O Canada” at the start of the meeting, but he told Rotarians during his talk that it made him uncomfortable.
“I can sit here and sing O Canada, but at the same time I think, ‘Where’s the truth in this?’”
Louie said referring to unsettled land claims.
“There’s some unfinished truth that Rotary and all the stakeholder groups have to understand and have to admit. As a native person, I shake my head and bite my tongue a little bit when I sing ‘O Canada’ because I’ve spent over 30 years researching and being involved ‘in the trenches’ on the relationships between native people and non-native people on both sides of the border.”
“Pointing to the Canadian and American flags at the front of the room, Louie argued that what they represent comes from overseas, from kings and queens.
“The Okanagan people, we’re a cross-border tribe like the Mohawk people and the Blackfoot people and all the ‘First Nations’ {Indian tribes} along the 49th Parallel”,
said Louie.
“That was an arbitrary line. There’s no rhyme or reason to it {? What ignorant, ahistorical nonsense}. It goes back to this kings and queens stuff and most people don’t study the history of those flags. Being a cross-border tribe, those two flags cut our people in half.”
“Louie said he keeps a quote on his desk from Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, calling for assimilation of native people. The first U.S. president, George Washington, he said, only wanted two things from Indians – peace and their land.
“The original treaties, he said, were intended to be a business relationship,
“not a dependency relationship, which the government and settlers turned it into”.
{Nonsense. That’s certainly not true of the Numbered Treaties from the 1880s on, where aboriginal chiefs were literally BEGGING for treaties to save them and had to be reminded that it WASN’T about dependency:
“We pointed out that the Government could not undertake to maintain Indians in idleness; that the same means of earning a livelihood would continue after the treaty as existed before it, and that the Indians would be expected to make use of them. We told them that the Government was always ready to give relief in cases of actual destitution, and that in seasons of distress they would, without any special stipulation in the treaty, receive such assistance as it was usual to give in order to prevent starvation among Indians in any part of Canada; and we stated that the attention of the Government would be called to the need of some special provision being made for assisting the old and indigent who were unable to work and dependent on charity for the means of sustaining life…”
–“Report of Commissioners for Treaty No. 8”, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, 22nd September, 1899
http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100028813/1100100028853#chp4 }
“He dismissed the idea of some people that talk of these treaties should be relegated to history, adding that non-natives don’t consider the establishment of “the imaginary line” of the 49th parallel to be “old history”….
{Tough. “Suck it up”…}
“The Canadian government will be taking Louie to Europe on a speaking tour {To spread his misinformation and attack Canada?} and he said he plans to visit the grave of an OIB volunteer, Ernest Baptiste, who was killed in northern Italy in 1944…”
–‘OIB Chief Clarence Louie delivers blunt talk to Osoyoos Rotarians’,
RICHARD McGUIRE, Osoyoos Times, April 1, 2015
https://www.osoyoostimes.com/oib-chief-clarence-louie-delivers-blunt-talk-to-osoyoos-rotarians/
COMMENT: “I’m glad I heard what he had to say. I know whose wine I won’t be buying anymore. Certainly won’t buy my gas at his gas station. I will suggest to my family they think of parking their motor home elsewhere come summer. I think his ego is getting too big for this town, sadly. But those who don’t agree with him are free to express their opinions by not doing business with them anymore. I think a lot of people in Osoyoos were really proud to have this well-managed and successful Band in our community. But clearly, he has little regard for the people who share this valley, and I never appreciated how bitter and angry he appears to be. Not a very flattering side of him.”
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“The problem I have with Chief Louie is that he never mentions that it was two White men who were the brains behind the business success; the fact that he was against the Transparency and Accountability rule for Indian leadership; and the fact that he buys into keeping our Native people separate by pushing the culture and language thing, along with the destructive: “It’s Indian land” attitude! He, and the author of the article, both cling too much to the Indian Industry – one, to capitalize on it, for all it’s worth; the other, to milk it for entitlement by playing the eternal victim! Until all people start thinking of themselves as simply Canadians, who can put God, family and country first, they will be just as guilty as those who pull them back into the barrel, because they cling too heavily to “being Indian“, to make it, in the world! “United, we stand, divided we fall!
“On our Reserves, it’s usually the ones who have the most access to different avenues of Race-based funding who encourage racial priority among our people, turning them into arrogant bullies who are taught to parrot the phrase that it’s all Indian land that the White man stole from our people; therefore, the Government owes us everything! If Chief Louie publicly acknowledged that it was actually the intellect and guidance of the two White men who turned his businesses into successes, it would have gone a long way in encouraging our people to get along with other Races, instead of trying to be above them! That way, they could work together for the common good of all Canadians, and make it a priority to get rid of The Indian Act, Indian Affairs and the Reserve System, to remove the lure of Race-based exploitation of taxpayers’ money and resources!”
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“…Threatening violence at the drop of a hat to further your agenda… Some would say that is domestic terrorism.”
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“Rather than being progressive and trying to remain successful, he has taken a step backward into the abyss that has mired so many first nations Bands. Time will tell but talk like this was not what made the Band successful.”
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“If enough of us stop voting with our dollars, then this band will feel the pinch. I don’t spend any money there nor do business with anyone who does. I won’t let my money go to this whiny traitor to Canada. If you go back in history, you will note that without the English in Canada, all of North America would be American. Manifest Destiny would have been a cakewalk for the American Armies. Indians in Canada should be thankful for how we have protected their rights and safety. The Americans most certainly would not have dealt with them in such a way. Instead, they enjoy biting the hand that feeds them.”
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“My great-great grandfather and great grandfather were not thieves. In fact, my great grandfather was very kind and generous to the native people in this area. So f*** you, Mr. Clarence Louie. The Whiteman’s tax dollars have put you were you are as a ‘nation’ today. Suck it up, buttercup.”
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“Rude, just plain rude. And not all the truth. It is easy to be successful when you don’t pay taxes and are subsidized by the federal government.”
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“I think OIB has really showed its true colors, They aren’t Canadians, they’re ‘First Nations’. That right there shows that there is no reasoning with them. IF they wanna be their own people, that’s fine — cut all their tax breaks, school grants, and put them on equal footing with everyone else. I say if you can’t be a Canadian first and your race second, then you need to really take a hard look at yourself. I really am tired of how 4th and 5th generation ‘first nations’ are still on the ‘poor us’ train. Why are we still paying for something that no one left alive on either side was part of? We either grow together or not.”
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“The people of Osoyoos know what the Band really thinks of Osoyoos. Their way or no way, strictly a one-way street.”
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“Chief Louie is a bully and I’m glad people are coming to see him for what he really is. Threatening the people of Osoyoos with violence for merely wanting to re-open their provincial park is a bit over the top, even for him. There are Indian bones all over this valley. There are also the bodies of 3,400 people in Lower Manhattan, but another Trade Center was built. Suck it up and deal with it. Between choking the town with smoke during controlled burns last spring, and now the Park incident, I think he is showing his true colours. Once again, thanks to the Times for publishing this article. Glad people can see who we are really dealing with and what he thinks of us.”
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“Now we all know how the Osoyoos Indian Band feels about Osoyoos. I find it absurd that aboriginals in general constantly complain about all the “injustice” they faced at the hand of the Europeans. When Europeans came to Canada, they came with the ideas and concepts that became what is now known as modern civilization. Instead of being upset with the small amount of horrible things that happened to a small amount of aboriginals, they should rejoice in the fact that they live in what is now the greatest place in the world to live. They should feel blessed that the Canadian government has done for them what it has.”
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“No one’s stopping natives from living the way they did before Europeans came here. Feel free to live in a long house, hunt with a bow and arrow, catch salmon in the river and all that…but that would mean giving up all the luxury that you have access to because of white people. You know, things like electricity. The government might be more willing to give the native people their traditional land back if they were to use it in a traditional manner. If you do that, all the power to you. I couldn’t and wouldn’t live like that but if you want to benefit from modern society, you might as well drop all this traditional land-grab bull crap.”
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“I think Mr. Louie should realize here in the 21st Century that most, if not all, Canadians understand the history of what’s happened in the past. Like most people here in the South Okanagan, I do not need him, or anyone for that matter, to give me a history lesson, thank you very much. I’m not surprised by his condescending tone as I’ve seen it before at numerous other forums. It is becoming more of the norm for him. It seems to this reader that he definitely is becoming more bitter as time goes by. Shame on him for speaking to people in this manner, regardless of fact or fiction.”
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“Where do you get off telling us, the residents of Osoyoos, to suck up your bullcrap because of something that happened 2 hundred or 2 thousand years ago? YOU suck it up, you and your people have had ample opportunity to better yourselves in the last one hundred years or so. You and your people chose not to, and live off my taxes. Any other country in this world would not put up with your self-gratifying speeches, after all the assistance you and your people have received. Bring on your ‘enforcers’, just remember one thing — we played ‘Cowboys and Indians’ once before…remember what happened? Face reality, you jerk.”
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“How about get the hell over it? Why can’t you people get your shit together and just let it go? You’re not the only people to have suffered. You’re definitely the loudest complainers.”
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“Anyone who disagrees with Chief Louie is a racist! And this includes all the N’kmip members who disagree with him. You’re racists, too!”
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“This generation has done nothing to native peoples other than give countless dollars into your Band and other Bands. In Germany, the generation NOW is not at fault for Adolf Hitler’s genocides and killings, so why should the innocent people here be at fault? It’s your ignorance, Mr. Louie, and attitude. The government has been giving children and teens chances for better education… Although trying to defend your heritage is a great thing, I do not buy it. How ridiculous. This isn’t about your “culture” and “heritage”. It’s all about money.”
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“I was born in this country…this IS my first nation. Where would you suggest I go Mr. Louie? Where are my tax breaks and my status card?”
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“As a ‘settler’ in support of ‘indigenous’ sovereignty, I fully support Chief Louie and his stance on the return of the spit to ‘indigenous’ control. The human rights abuses faced by our ‘first nations’ sisters and brothers amounts to a ‘genocide’, a terrible injustice which is ongoing in the outrageous abuse, rape, and murder of the many missing and murdered ‘first nations’ women in the largely unceded ‘first nations’ territory stolen by the Europeans which is now called Canada; the seizure of ‘first nations’ children by provincial ministries; the outright discrimination in employment, housing, and health amount to apartheid. I offer my solidarity with your fight for justice, Chief Louie. –Sincerely, Roslyn Cassells, ‘teacher’, ‘social ecologist’, and Canada’s first elected ‘Green’.”
See also:
‘Time to Panic in British Columbia’ {Mar.2, 2026}:
“We, the {1,514} Musqueam people openly and publicly declare and affirm {to the 3 million people of the Vancouver Lower Mainland} that we hold aboriginal title to {your} land and ‘aboriginal rights’ to exercise use of {your} land, the sea and fresh waters, and all their resources within that territory occupied and used by our ancestors…”
—‘Musqueam Declaration’
‘Government of Canada’s landmark agreement recognizes Musqueam ‘First Nation’s Aboriginal title in Metro Vancouver’
“...A February 20 federal news release that received virtually no media coverage.
“The agreement creates a structured framework for gradually implementing Musqueam’s authority in decision-making over much of the Lower Mainland’s lands and waters. Their {claimed but unproven} ‘traditional territory’ includes the region’s mountainous, forested watershed that feed into Metro Vancouver’s drinking water reservoirs, as well as West Vancouver, North Vancouver City, North Vancouver District, Vancouver, the University of British Columbia, the University Endowment Lands, Burnaby, Port Moody, Anmore, Belcarra, New Westminster, Richmond, Vancouver International Airport, the northern areas of Delta and Surrey, and the waterways.”
https://endracebasedlaw.com/2026/03/02/time-to-panic-in-british-columbia/
“It should be noted that ‘aboriginal title’ was considered “extinguished” by successive B.C. governments (and courts) for almost 150 years. Then, it suddenly made its reappearance when it was imposed on B.C. by an Ottawa-based Supreme Court.”
https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/who-owns-british-columbia/
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