Recommendation 11: Support efforts to understand, document, and record Indigenous place names by:

1. Establishing a working group of Indigenous Peoples experienced with the placename process;
2. Funding Indigenous communities to undertake dialogue and engagement; and
3. Providing funding and staffing resources to the B.C. Geographical Names Office of the Heritage Branch to process and evaluate Indigenous place names applications, including engagement with Indigenous communities.

Recommendation 12: Support efforts to map Indigenous cultural heritage traditions across the province through the provision of funding for training and capacity building, research and documentation, learning and knowledge transfer, and informational infrastructure development.

Recommendation 13: Recognize and protect Indigenous cultural heritage places of significance and places that are endangered yearly through the application of legislative tools for heritage recognition and protection and through provision of funding for projects and initiatives designed to safeguarding such places. This must include a public registry of Indigenous cultural heritage places that allows Indigenous communities to control which places may be publicly known.

Recommendation 14: Formalize initiatives to inventory Indigenous cultural heritage facing imminent threats related to climate change (e.g., heritage at risk of damage or destruction due to flooding, erosion, fires, temperature change), and develop response plans. Conduct research about how Indigenous Peoples coped with significant environmental changes in the past, and how this might help Indigenous communities and their neighbours plan climate change responses today.

Recommendation 15: Work with Indigenous Peoples and all federal, provincial and municipal agencies, such as B.C. Parks, Parks Canada, and Canadian Heritage, to revise narrow, inaccurate, and harmful interpretations of Indigenous Peoples and histories. These agencies should work with local Indigenous Peoples to identify gaps and needs for research and storytelling related to lands managed by B.C. and Canada. Begin the process of truth-telling in accordance with applicable Indigenous legal traditions at Indigenous cultural heritage sites and places managed by B.C. and Canada. This telling should be an honest and authentic written account of the history with Indigenous Peoples that is produced in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples.

Recommendation 16: Work with Indigenous organizations and museums to develop grant funding to support Indigenous Peoples in the repatriation of their tangible and intangible cultural heritage and ancestral remains.

Recommendation 17: Support Indigenous Peoples to have the resources needed to develop and administer their own cultural heritage laws, policies, and practices; and to establish agreements that clarify relations with and between federal and provincial governments.

Recommendation 18: Provide support for a committee, such as the FPCC Indigenous Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee, of qualified Indigenous experts to advise B.C. on a case-by-case basis on shared Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural heritage interests.

Recommendation 19: Establish a special program to support scholarships and internships for Indigenous students and early-career professionals to conduct and present research on Indigenous cultural heritage related to B.C.’s heritage sites, programs and collections.

Recommendation 20: Hire Indigenous People experienced in Indigenous cultural heritage to foster new ways of thinking within government and to develop common understandings between government and Indigenous communities.