Yukon First Nations prepare to release plan for overlapping land claims

Plan is shaped by science, heritage and tradition. It began back in 2017. The three nations committed to create a unified vision for the Southern Lakes region rooted in Indigenous storytelling, law, knowledge and science. Baylit Peters. He is an engagement officer with Tan Quatron Council. She’s been working with elders to record and capture their knowledge of the land in order to make decisions for years to come. It means. That my First Nations thoughts and opinions that they matter and that they’re being taken into account, elders say as development interest continues to rise in the Southern Lakes region, understanding the value of the land from an indigenous perspective is critical, I think. Basically I think the the, the, the. Tahan and Conan down the carcass, figured that man that. Land use planning was wasn’t working for us, so we wanted to more, more or less. Go back to to our roots, which was indigenous LED land use planning, where where we talk about everything that that’s on the land, not just. Enough to to map it out, but to to walk it like like we say, how we walk with land and water means literally walking. The land leaders hope to be able to share the land use planning document with the public by 2025. Katrin Pilkington, CBC News, White Horse.