The tiny Hwlitsum band was formed in 2000 after its chief, Rocky Wilson (pictured here), won a 15-year Supreme Court fight to regain his full Indian status.
Photograph by: Ian Lindsay , Vancouver Sun files
LADNER, BC- May 25/2000 NEW FIRST NATION – Rocky Wilson is the Chief of the Hwlitsum First Nation, a new Indian band which is seeking recognition from Ottawa and a land claim for the Brunswick Point area of Ladner. He is standing at the site of the old Brunswick Point Cannery on the south shore of Canoe Pass. For city story by Gerry Bellet. (ian lindsay/Vancouver Sun) [PNG Merlin Archive]
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