The process of returning land to its original inhabitants isn't straightforward; there is no system in place to transfer lands back to Indigenous communities.
Tara Martin, a professor of conservation science at the University of British Columbia, planted the seed to get SISȻENEM returned to the W̱SÁNEĆ people.When Tara Martin was a little girl, she and her mother would launch a tin rowboat from Salt Spring Island, where they lived, and row between the many islands that dot the Salish Sea to go fishing.
Martin — who is now a professor in the department of forest and conservation sciences at the University of British Columbia — noted that SISȻENEM is a gem in the Salish Sea. No one had built a mansion on it, mowed it down to create farmland or turned it into a park. "It was an eco-cultural landscape that had been tended for millennia…. Those forests were forest gardens [and] these meadows were gardens."
An aerial image of SISȻENEM, also known as Halibut Island, in the Salish Sea off the coast of British Columbia.
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