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“Historically, western scientists have said there were never grizzly bears on Vancouver Island… “But I’ve always been interested in the other side of the story… A lot of the nations in the Broughton Archipelago, they have songs about grizzlies,” …“maybe” western science has it wrong. " “In […]

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Ed Wiebe

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@chris I'm not sure what you've heard but I've always heard they visit and that there is no permanent population in recent times. There were post ice-age populations e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jqs.3451 I'm not at all sure about the recent history but I'm sure that […]

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Chris Alemany

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@edwiebe ya I have kind of heard the same, but mostly I was just quoting the words of the indigenous fellow in the paper. There have been more than a few times where western science has eventually come around to what the oral history of indigenous peoples has indicated or implied, if not […]

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