Community Voices: The Making and Meaning of the Xáxli’p Community Forest

The Xáxli’p Community Forest (XCF) is an evolving example of how Indigenous communities are redefining sustainability and asserting their sovereignty through natural resource governance. Written as part of a doctoral dissertation research project out of the University of California, Berkeley, the report traces over twenty years of negotiations leading up to the XCF in British Columbia, Canada. The report also discusses current XCF efforts to restore the interconnected ecological and cultural systems that make up Xáxli’p Survival Territory.

The report is intended as a resource for teachers, policy-makers, community advocates, community-engaged scholars, and others.

“Community Voices: The Making and Meaning of the Xáxli’p Community Forest,” is available from http://www.xcfc.ca/pages/plans-maps.php Cover art credit Lichia Liu

For more information, see www.xcfc.ca, or please consider joining the Xáxli’p Community Forest Facebook page.

Sincerely,

Sibyl Diver, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University

www.sibyldiver.com