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By Julie Chadwick, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, IndigiNews After fighting to reestablish its main village site for more than four generations, the Lyackson First Nation is mapping out a new and hopeful future. The \u201cVancouver Island\u201d community of roughly 230 people has regained ownership of a 312-hectare land parcel alongside Cowichan Tribes \u2014 building on decades of advocacy and work to regain what was lost during colonization. \u201cThis village site will forever change the trajectory of the Leey\u2019qsun Mustimuhw for our community today and future generations,\u201d said Lyackson Chief Laxele\u2019wuts\u2019aat Chief Shana Thomas on May 22. \u201cWe have a lot of work to do to prepare, but our community is ready to take on that work.\u201d Traditionally, Lyackson\u2019s winter village T\u2019eet\u2019qe\u2019 had sat at the mouth of the Quw\u2019utsun and… <\/p>\n

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By Julie Chadwick, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, IndigiNews After fighting to reestablish its main village site for more than four generations, the Lyackson First Nation is mapping out a new and hopeful future. The \u201cVancouver Island\u201d community of roughly 230 people has regained ownership of a 312-hectare land parcel alongside Cowichan Tribes \u2014 building on decades of advocacy and work to regain what was lost during colonization. \u201cThis village site will forever change the trajectory of the Leey\u2019qsun Mustimuhw for our community today and future generations,\u201d said Lyackson Chief Laxele\u2019wuts\u2019aat Chief Shana Thomas on May 22. \u201cWe have a lot of work to do to prepare, but our community is ready to take on that work.\u201d Traditionally, Lyackson\u2019s winter village T\u2019eet\u2019qe\u2019 had sat at the mouth of the Quw\u2019utsun and... <\/p>\n

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