The Fourth World Is Emerging: A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in
Part One: Dispossession at Home
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In Chapter 4, co-authors Dawn Hoogeveen (a non-Indigenous settler) and Russell Myers Ross (a member of the Tsilhqot’in Nation) examine the struggles to preserve Teztan Biny (Fish Lake), located in Tsilhqot’in territory. The chapter highlights topics such as how British Columbia land use laws have authorized the legal dispossession of land from Indigenous Peoples, Crown authorization over Indigenous consent, the Dasiqox Nexwagwezan project, and the case of the Taseko (Prosperity) Mines.
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Contributors
Dawn Hoogeveen
Dawn Hoogeveen (PhD) is a researcher and writer who lives on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-waututh territory in Vancouver with her partner and two kids. She was part of a team that established Dasiqox Nexwagwezan as an Indigenous protected area. Dawn is active in work on Indigenous health and wellness, gender and impact assessment, and cumulative environmental impacts. Her PhD work that contributed to the chapter in this book was a theoretically informed account of what accumulation by dispossession means in the context of a rejected copper-gold mine proposal in Tsilhqot’in territory.
Russell Myers Ross
Russell Myers Ross (MA) is Indigenous to the Tsilhqot’in Nation and from the community of Yunesit’in. He has a masters of Indigenous governance from the University of Victoria (2010). Russell has since completed an eight-year term as an elected Chief of Yunesit’in Government from 2012–20. In two terms, he was influential to the creation of Dasiqox Nexwagwezan. In his role as a leader, he experienced the New Prosperity proposal that triggered the second Canadian environmental assessment (2013), along with the work leading to the Supreme Court of Canada (2014), the exoneration of the Tsilhqot’in war leaders (2014 and 2018) and subsequent negotiations, the Nenqay Deni Accord (2015) and Nilt’I Pathways Agreement (2019), with the provincial and federal governments, respectively.
