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The Witsuwit'en are NOT considered part of a group called Babine. Rather, they and the Babine are sisters, for whom the only name currently considered acceptable is Babine-Witsuwit'en. Witsuwit'en people consider the idea that they are Babine offensive, and similarly Babine people do not consider themselves Witsuwit'en. It is therefore inaccurate to include Babine Lake and Takla Lake in Witsuwit'en territory as these are Babine. Bill 04:29, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
There is a "citation needed" sticker on the claim that they are in treaty negotiations. I don't know how to add it, but here is some proof, for someone who can add it: http://www.bctreaty.net/files/first_nations.php Rob MacDonald 207.81.154.105 ( talk) 15:40, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Wetʼsuwetʼen/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
basically only a stub. Needs thorough expansion/revision. Language article is
Babine-Witsuwit'en --
Skookum1 (6 May 06)
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Have the Wet'suwet'en completed a land-claim process with the federal and provincial governments? If not, I have a little more sympathy for their blockades. But if the process has been completed and both sides have fulfilled their obligations (monetary payments, etc.), and if that process includes specifications as to the hereditary chiefs' scope of power and the land they hold that power over, then the pipeline must respect the land held in that power.
I am not posting this as an opinion quite as much as I am asking for something in the article that tells readers if there is a settled land claim and whether it provides the legal framework to allow or disallow the protest that is blocking the pipeline and instigating sympathy blockades elsewhere. GBC ( talk) 01:48, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
I started working on standardizing the spelling of Wetʼsuwetʼen in several articles but I don't really know what I'm doing here, and I see that (for example) the title of this article is spelled Wetʼsuwetʼen (with U+02BC ʼ MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE) while the article's category is spelled Wet'suwet'en (with U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE). In other instances some editors have wrapped the name with nowiki tags and I can't tell why. Which is correct? (Or, because it's Wikipedia, which is a reasonable standard?) Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 17:49, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
A controversy that shuts down most rail traffic in Canada is certainly notable. Or is there a separate article about this? I hesitate to begin this myself as I am not aware of the full situation, and my hands are full elsewhere. Nonetheless. If anyone is following this page and cananswer the above question, that would be a start 162.216.188.155 ( talk) 00:06, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
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The Witsuwit'en are NOT considered part of a group called Babine. Rather, they and the Babine are sisters, for whom the only name currently considered acceptable is Babine-Witsuwit'en. Witsuwit'en people consider the idea that they are Babine offensive, and similarly Babine people do not consider themselves Witsuwit'en. It is therefore inaccurate to include Babine Lake and Takla Lake in Witsuwit'en territory as these are Babine. Bill 04:29, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
There is a "citation needed" sticker on the claim that they are in treaty negotiations. I don't know how to add it, but here is some proof, for someone who can add it: http://www.bctreaty.net/files/first_nations.php Rob MacDonald 207.81.154.105 ( talk) 15:40, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Wetʼsuwetʼen/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
basically only a stub. Needs thorough expansion/revision. Language article is
Babine-Witsuwit'en --
Skookum1 (6 May 06)
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Last edited at 23:29, 1 August 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 10:28, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Have the Wet'suwet'en completed a land-claim process with the federal and provincial governments? If not, I have a little more sympathy for their blockades. But if the process has been completed and both sides have fulfilled their obligations (monetary payments, etc.), and if that process includes specifications as to the hereditary chiefs' scope of power and the land they hold that power over, then the pipeline must respect the land held in that power.
I am not posting this as an opinion quite as much as I am asking for something in the article that tells readers if there is a settled land claim and whether it provides the legal framework to allow or disallow the protest that is blocking the pipeline and instigating sympathy blockades elsewhere. GBC ( talk) 01:48, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
I started working on standardizing the spelling of Wetʼsuwetʼen in several articles but I don't really know what I'm doing here, and I see that (for example) the title of this article is spelled Wetʼsuwetʼen (with U+02BC ʼ MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE) while the article's category is spelled Wet'suwet'en (with U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE). In other instances some editors have wrapped the name with nowiki tags and I can't tell why. Which is correct? (Or, because it's Wikipedia, which is a reasonable standard?) Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 17:49, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
A controversy that shuts down most rail traffic in Canada is certainly notable. Or is there a separate article about this? I hesitate to begin this myself as I am not aware of the full situation, and my hands are full elsewhere. Nonetheless. If anyone is following this page and cananswer the above question, that would be a start 162.216.188.155 ( talk) 00:06, 24 February 2020 (UTC)