Capital region residents invited to donate to First Nations through special trust fund

Capital region residents and business owners who want to support reconciliation efforts can now pay into a new regional fund to send money to First Nations with no strings attached.

The City of Victoria instituted a similar system a year ago for homeowners to make voluntary payments equivalent to five or 10 per cent of their annual property taxes to the Songhees and Esquimalt nations. Abraham Pelkey, elected chief of the Tsawout Nation, said money that goes to the Tsawout could be used for land repatriation efforts, as well as smaller cost items such as funding travel to trans-national gatherings such as the Tribal Canoe Journeys.

The South Island Indigenous Reciprocity Trust names all 10 Crown-recognized First Nations with interests in the capital region as its beneficiaries: T’Sou-ke Nation, the Lekwungen people of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations, the WSÁNEĆ communities of Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tseycum, Malahat and Pauquachin First Nations, as well as the Sc’ianew First Nation and Pacheedaht First Nation.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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