APTN Investigates: Lost Village, Landmark Victory – APTN News
For generations, Quw’utsun families traversed the Salish Sea from Cowichan Bay – on what is now Vancouver Island – to Tl’uqtinus, a fishing village on the mainland along the Fraser River, that helped sustain them as a people.
Then, the village was taken from their control, absorbed into colonial British Columbia by means of an improper transfer orchestrated by a government official who sold what ought to have been Aboriginal title land to himself.
In the summer of 2025 though, in what’s referred to as the Cowichan decision, a landmark B.C. Supreme Court ruling aimed to right this wrong by recognizing Aboriginal title for the Quw’utsun [Cowichan] Nation in what is now Richmond.
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