Kulturkampf

[Ethan]

Total non-story from the usual reactionaries at Rebel and Juno news.
It's just the run of the mill acknowledgement at the beginning of a report about a program involving using first nation people as rangers in National Parks.

Acknowledgment and context

Indigenous Peoples and national parks

For millennia, Indigenous Peoples have cultivated reciprocal relationships with lands, waters, and ice guided by cultural practices, values, and knowledge systems.

Beginning in the 19th century, the development of national parks and protected areas in Canada disrupted these relationships through exclusion and colonial injustices. In establishing national parks (see Figure 1), Indigenous Peoples were forcibly removed from their homes, denied access to traditional territories, and prohibited from hunting and harvesting on park lands. With parks created without the involvement of Indigenous Peoples, communities were denied the opportunity to make decisions about land management and resource use.

These laws, practices, and policies caused historic and ongoing harm for Indigenous communities. They eroded Indigenous systems and protocols for engaging with each other and contributed to the complexity of historic and ongoing relationships between Indigenous governments.

Parks Canada now acknowledges this harmful historical legacy and its impact on Indigenous language, culture, laws, and governance systems and has committed to developing healthy relationships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit partners to support Indigenous stewardship and self-determination.

Indigenous Guardians programs, alongside other inclusionary practices such as co-management and Indigenous protected and conserved areas, have emerged internationally as one means for Indigenous Peoples to reassert jurisdiction over their ancestral territories and seek to fulfill their responsibilities as stewards. These programs are known by several names including Guardians, Rangers, Watchmen, Earth Keepers, and Beach Keepers.

It's not like it's advising to close the National Parks.