Overview
First Nations use archeology and GIS to map out land claims, often by employing contractors. Even artifacts seemingly as insignificant as trees with some mild debarking have been used as evidence to award land title to FNs.
This archeological data is highly structured and kept in a BC government database, curated by the BC Archeology Branch. These records used to be publicly-accessible via the BC Data Catalogue… until the government de-listed them as being restricted years ago.
It should also be noted that, since this is the BC government curating this critical dataset for First Nations independence, that this is further evidence that First Nations is under the jurisdiction of provinces (as opposed to Indian bands being under the jurisdiction of the federal government).
Bureaucracy
BC Archeology Branch
This is a technical document from 2024 covering how archeological data is collected and entered and submitted to the BC government.
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Created April 08 2026