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associated FNs and towns/places

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the obscurity of IR names in many cases predicates the need to include which First Nation is associated with which reserve, and where they are; I'll table-ize this in a little while but for now will just ad FNs and locations without further formatting.....Skookum1 (talk)

Numbers skewed by non-native residents

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If this list is supposed to reflect the comparative size of native reserve communities, it's got some issues, and those issues lead me again towards the big job of table-izing it. Tsinstikeptum 9 and its partner, and Capilano 5 and the Burrard Reserve and Pencticton 1 and Osoyoos 1 (if it's on there), and I think Tzeachten, include large numbers of non-native residents on housing developments (or in Osoyoos' case on vinyards). For now I'll go over the census figures and inidcate how many non-natives are resident in each case; it may be that in other provinces that there are few/no non-nati9ve residents on reserves; whereas in BC it's very common due to enterprise on the part of band managers/councils (e.g. the no-longer Attorney General of British Columbia, Wally Oppal, lives in Tsatsu Shores, a condo development on the Tsawwassen Indian Reserve. So if this list was supposed to be equivalent to a list of First Nations populations across the country, it just doesn't work; I know some of yo9u regard the term "Indian reserve" [sic and the attached First Nation band/people as interchangeable concepts; in BC they are not....Skookum1 (talk) 13:57, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So table will have non-native, on-reserve and off-resrve populations; and the idda of this table is complicated by the fact that bands in BC have m ultiple reserves - e.g. the Westbank First Nation has the two Tsinstikeptums which are jointly known as the Westbank Indian Ressrve i.e. as one place, though two parcels of land. Similarly I know in the case of teh Seton Lake First Nation that their community is scattered across several adjoining reserves, so a by-official-reserve-name they have low populations; combined they do not.; likewise with other FNs in that region and elsewhere in BC; counting by single reserve and not combined-reserves is mmisleading but I suppose any attempt to tidy that up is original research, so it is what it is....Skookum1 (talk) 14:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Here's an example; this is a quoted bit from the West Kelowna page:
Approximately 6,000 non-band members and 500 First Nation Westbank band members live on the reserves.[1]
  1. ^ "2008 WFN Economic Profile" (PDF). Westbank First Nation.

Skookum1 (talk) 14:07, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


yes your right this page needs some real work...from what i can see its very dated ..from 2002 i belive.

Buzzzsherman (talk) 17:37, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]