A Metro Vancouver park has been renamed to incorporate the positioning’s Indigenous title, which officers say will higher mirror the realm’s historical past.
Belcarra Regional Park on the Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver will even have the Indigenous title of temtemíxwten, which native First Nations say interprets to “largest place for all of the individuals.”
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The Metro Vancouver Regional District says the park and space was the positioning of the nation’s largest ancestral village.
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Chief Jen Thomas says the title change is vital in acknowledging the group’s historical past within the space.
In February 2020, the nation and regional district signed an settlement that formalized an ongoing collaboration between the 2 teams, and the title change is likely one of the tasks.
Sav Dhaliwal, the chair of the Metro Vancouver board of administrators, says in an announcement that the district is happy to convey extra consciousness in regards to the nation’s historical past within the space.
The park’s signage shall be modified over the following few months to mirror the brand new title.
“Via our conventional title, language, and art work being current within the park, Tsleil-Waututh is placing the face of our nation again on the territory, demonstrating to our subsequent technology the significance of being stewards of our lands and waters,” chief administrative officer Ernie George says within the written assertion.
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