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  • 1. Setting the Bar: Heritage and Reconciliation Pledge
  • 2. Setting the Bar: Acknowledging Land and People
  • 3. Setting the Bar: Celebrating Days of Recognition and Commemoration
  • 4. Setting the Bar: With a Commitment to Learn
  • 5. Setting the Bar: Committing to Strategic Organizational Diversity
  • 6. Setting the Bar: Mission-Making Room for Reconciliation
  • 7. Setting the Bar: Possession, Interpretation, Repatriation and Cultural Care
  • 8. Setting the Bar: Shared Decision Making
  • 9. Setting the Bar: Statements of Significance and other heritage planning documents
  • 10. Setting the Bar: Heritage Conservation Tools, Local Government Act
  • Setting the Bar: A Guide to Achieve New Standards for Reconciliation within the Heritage Sector

9. Setting the Bar: Statements of Significance and other heritage planning documents

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ACTIONS:

We will work with Indigenous cultural experts when preparing a Statement of Significance and other heritage planning documents.

We will re-write existing Statements of Significance and other heritage planning documents to include Indigenous perspectives, working with an Indigenous cultural expert.

Download 9. Setting the Bar: Statements of Significance and Heritage Documents

Long used to described tangible heritage, Statements of Significance and other heritage planning documents need to evolve so that the Indigenous perspective is normalized in the research and writing phases. Adopting the “not about us, without us” principle, the Indigenous perspective must be welcomed and appropriately informed.

Acknowledging challenges exist in incorporating Indigenous worldviews within cultural heritage management and decision-making processes, the First Peoples’ Cultural Council reminds us “the millennia-long occupation and use of land of indigenous people should be the fundamental context and starting point for historic places recognition.”

This section is directly drawn from “Recommendations for Decolonizing British Columbia’s Heritage-Related Processes and Legislation”, published by First Peoples’ Cultural Council in 2020.

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As an organization of provincial scope, Heritage BC recognizes that its members, and the local history and heritage they seek to preserve, occupy the lands and territories of B.C.’s Indigenous peoples. Heritage BC asks its members and everyone working in the heritage sector to reflect on the places where they reside and work, and to respect the diversity of cultures and experiences that form the richness of our provincial heritage.