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Squamish First Nation Chief Bill Williams, whose signature is also on the document, said his band has agreed to work with the organizing committee.
However, that did not mean members of his nation would not be protesting.
"There will be some level of protest and I hope so too," he said."We are going to be working with VANOC, but we have 3,500 members and not all want to be part of the Olympics.They want to talk about the children and the hardships in the community and they have the full right to do that."
Mr. Williams said First Nations across Canada have the highest attributes in all the worst life quality scenarios.
"We have the highest people incarcerated, the highest rate of children dropping out of schools, the highest rate of children in the child-care system and I could go on and on," Mr. Williams said.