time in the expansion of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, under the Bamberton Town Development Project to find workable ways. Under the auspices of the Environmental Assessment Office, a cohesive project was developed to address the demands of the six affected tribes, i.e., the Malahat, Tsartlip, Pauquachin, Tseycum and Tsawout Bands]], and the Cowichan Tribes should be considered. The report outlined the traditional and current uses of the affected lands, considered the importance to the aforementioned tribes. Lessons learned from this led to the protection of various areas in the newly formed city and resulted in Native American participation in the development of marine protected areas, such as Race Rocks, in 1998. The Lester B. Pearson College instructional program since then has included not only biological content, but also cultural aspects, in this case of the Beecher Bay First Nations. The 13-Monde system again plays an important role in this. In the year 2000 the Beecher Bay invited to a celebration, to which all involved people appeared. According to the rituals, the younger ones served as servants, namely the ancestors, to whose honor food was also burned. Among the Coast Salish, the number of women working as councillors has increased from 11 to almost 30% since the 1960s. The number of people employed by the Stó:lō nation increased tenfold between 1990 and 1997, from about 20 to about 200. Meanwhile, people also receive money for useful work they have long done without pay, such as caregiving, teaching, maintenance, landscape conservation, etc. The situation south of the U.S. border is strongly influenced by attempts to participate in tourism and entertainment. casinos and hotels have become important sources of income. At the same time, tribal territories are much less sharply defined on the one hand, and much more heavily populated by non-tribal members on the other. In addition, the tribes are often considerably larger. They strive predominantly for self-governance and maintain their own political bodies, courts, executive organs, and so on. This historical legacy ensures that it is not easy to determine what constitutes a tribe, even though the government has established a seven-criteria catalog. Since only the tribes as a whole are allowed to operate casinos, and these in turn have proven to be enormously important providers of jobs, one tribe or another tries to prevent (as yet) unrecognized tribes from being accepted by the state in order to keep