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Wetʼsuwetʼen
The Wetʼsuwetʼen are a First Nations in Canada, First Nation who live on the Bulkley River and around Burns Lake, Broman Lake, and François Lake in the northwestern British Columbia Interior, Central Interior of British Columbia. The Wetʼsuwetʼen are a branch of the Dakelh or Carrier people, and in combination with the Babine people have been referred to as the Western Carrier. They speak Witsuwitʼen, a dialect of the Babine-Witsuwitʼen language which, like its sister language Carrier language, Carrier, is a member of the Athabaskan languages, Athabaskan family. Their oral tradition, oral history, called ''kungax'', recounts that their ancestral village, Dizkle or Dzilke, once stood upstream from the Bulkley Canyon. This cluster of cedar houses on both sides of the river is said to have been abandoned because of an omen of impending disaster. The exact location of the village has been lost. The neighbouring Gitxsan people of the Hazelton, British Columbia, Hazelton a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Unistʼotʼen Camp
The Unistʼotʼen Camp is a protest camp and indigenous healing centre in northern British Columbia, Canada. It is located within the traditional Aboriginal title, territory of the Unist'otʼen clan of the Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation peoples. Established after the proposal of several pipeline projects in the area, it is situated where several pipelines will pass, as a means to block their construction. Located by road from Vancouver, BC and about from the town of Smithers, British Columbia, Smithers, it is on the shores of the Wedzin Kwah (or Morice River) at the mouth of Gosnell Creek. These are both tributaries of the Skeena River, Skeena, Bulkley River, Bulkley, and Babine River, Babine rivers. Members of the Unisʼtotʼen clan, First Nations peoples, and other supporters staff the camp. The Wetʼsuwetʼen built a checkpoint some east of the camp, on the Morice West Forest Service Road. At this checkpoint, visitors had to have prior consent to enter the territory and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation
The Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation is a Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nations band located outside of the village of Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada. It was formerly known as the ''Broman Lake Indian Band'' and is still usually referred to as ''Broman Lake'' although this is no longer its official name. Its members speak the Wetʼsuwetʼen dialect of Babine-Witsuwitʼen, a Northern Athabaskan language. The main community is on Palling Indian Reserve No. 1. As of March 2017, the Nation had 257 registered members, with 85 members living on the First Nation's own reserve. The Nation is a member of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council The Carrier Sekani Tribal Council (familiarly known as CSTC) is a tribal council representing six First Nations in the Central Interior of British Columbia. It was originally known as the ''Lakes District Tribal Council''. The CSTC was incorporated ... and of the Broman Lake Development Corporation. The Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation was formerly part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nee-Tahi-Buhn Band
The Nee-Tahi-Buhn Band is a First Nation located in the Interior of British Columbia near Burns Lake Burns Lake is a rural village in the British Columbia Interior, north-western-central interior of British Columbia, Canada, incorporated in 1923. The village had a population of 1,659 as of the 2021 Census. The village is known for its rich F .... Governance Nee-Tahi-Buhn is a section 11 First Nations band that uses a custom electoral system. The current council was appointed on December 12, 2018, with the exception of Councillor Tyson Lee Prince, who was appointed on October 18, 2019. The current council's term will expire on December 11, 2022. Treaty Process History Demographics Reserve number: 726 Number of Band Members: 133 List of Reserves * Eastern Island 13 * Francois Lake 7 * Isaac (Gale Lake) 8 * Omineca 1 * Uncha Lake 13A Economic Development Social, Educational and Cultural Programs and Facilities References Dakelh governments Omineca Country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gitxsan
Gitxsan (also spelled Gitksan and Kitksan) are an Indigenous people in Canada whose home territory comprises most of the area known as the Skeena Country in English (: means "people of" and : means "the River of Mist"). Gitksan territory encompasses approximately of land, from the basin of the upper Skeena River from about Legate Creek to the Skeena's headwaters and its surrounding tributaries. Part of the Tsimshianic language group, their culture is considered to be part of the civilization of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, although their territory lies in the Interior rather than on the Coast. They were at one time also known as the ''Interior Tsimshian'', a term which also included the Nisga'a, the Gitxsan's neighbours to the north. Their neighbours to the west are the Tsimshian (a.k.a. the Coast Tsimshian) while to the east the Wetʼsuwetʼen, an Athapaskan people, with whom they have a long and deep relationship and shared political and cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Skin Tyee First Nation
The Skin Tyee First Nation, also known as the Skin Tyee Indian Band is a First Nations band government located in the Central Interior of British Columbia near François Lake, in the Omineca Country to the west of the City of Prince George. Demographics Number of Band Members: 184 Governance Skin Tyee is a section 11 band that follows a custom electoral system. The current elected Councillors are Gabriel Tom, and Shirley Wilson. The Chief Councillor position is currently vacant pending a by-election. Indian Reserves Indian Reserves under the administration of the Skin Tyee First Nation are: * Skins Lake Indian Reserve No. 15, north of Skins Lake, at the head of the Cheslatta River The Cheslatta River is a tributary of the Nechako River, one of the main tributaries of the Fraser River, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It flows through the Nechako Plateau. Before the construction of Kenney Dam in the early 1950s t ..., 183.70 ha. * Skins Lake Indian Reserve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dene
The Dene people () are an Indigenous group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal, subarctic and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languages and it is the common Athabaskan word for "people". The term ''"Dene"'' has two uses: Most commonly, ''"Dene"'' is used narrowly to refer to the Athabaskan speakers of the Northwest Territories in Canada who form the Dene Nation: the Chipewyan (Denesuline), Tłı̨chǫ (''Dogrib''), Yellowknives (T'atsaot'ine), Slavey (Deh Gah Got'ine or Deh Cho), Sahtu (Sahtúot’ine), and Gwichʼin (Dinjii Zhuh). ''"Dene"'' is sometimes also used to refer to all Northern Athabaskan speakers, who are spread in a wide range all across Alaska and northern Canada. The Dene people are known for their oral storytelling. Location Dene are spread through a wide region. They live in the Mackenzie Valley (south of the Inuvialuit), and can be found west of Nunavut. Their homeland reaches to western Yukon, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tsilhqotʼin
The Tsilhqotin or Chilcotin ("People of the river", ; also spelled ''Tsilhqutin, Tŝinlhqotin, Chilkhodin, Tsilkótin, Tsilkotin'') are a First Nations in Canada, North American tribal government of the Northern Athabaskan languages, Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that live in what is now known as British Columbia, Canada. They are the most southern of the Athabaskan-speaking Indigenous peoples in British Columbia. Their name, Tŝilhqotʼin, makes reference to the Chilko River, which means "red ochre river," from ''tŝi(lh)'' "rock" + ''-qu'' "river" + ''-t'in'' "people". Tsilhqot'in people also use another word to refer to themselves: ''Nenqayni'', from: ''nen'' "land" + ''-qay'' "surface" + ''-ni'' "person/people", and their country is called ''Chilcotin Country, Tŝilhqotʼin Nen''. For more information about the 2014 landmark court case that established Indigenous land title for the Tsilhqotʼin Nation and demanded that colonial provinces engage in meaningful a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dakelh
The Dakelh (pronounced ) or Carrier are a First Nations in Canada, First Nations Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous people living a large portion of the British Columbia Interior, Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The Dakelh also call themselves Yinka Dene ("the people on the land"), and the Babine-Witsuwitʼen-speaking bands prefer the equivalent Yinka Whut'en ("the people on the land"). The Dakelh people are a First Nations in Canada, First Nations people of the British Columbia Interior, Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, for whom Carrier has been a common English name derived from French explorers naming of the people. Dakelh people speak two related languages. One, Babine-Witsuwit'en is sometimes referred to as Northern Carrier. The other includes what are sometimes referred to as Central Carrier and Southern Carrier. They speak Witsuwitʼen or Babine/Nedut'en, dialects of the Babine-Witsuwitʼen language which, like its sister Carrier langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Babine
{{Infobox ethnic group , group = Nadot'en , image = , image_caption = , poptime = , popplace = British Columbia, Canada , langs = English, Babine-Witsuwitʼen , rels = Christianity, Animism , related = Other DeneEspecially Tsilhqotʼin, Dakelh, and Wetʼsuwetʼen In its broader sense, Babine (sometimes spelled ''Babeen'' in older English-language texts) refers to the First Nations peoples who speak the Babine dialect of the Babine-Witsuwitʼen language, part of the Athabaskan language family, in the vicinity of the Babine River, Babine Lake, Trembleur Lake, and Takla Lake in the central interior of British Columbia, Canada. In its narrower sense, Babine refers to the subset of Babine speakers who belong to the Lake Babine Nation, a band comprising three main communities: * Fort Babine (traditional name: Wit'at, approx. 100 full-time residents); * Tachet (approx. 100 full-time residents); * and Woyenne (next to the village of Burns Lake, approx. 800 residents). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Burns Lake
Burns Lake is a rural village in the British Columbia Interior, north-western-central interior of British Columbia, Canada, incorporated in 1923. The village had a population of 1,659 as of the 2021 Census. The village is known for its rich First Nations in Canada, First Nations heritage, and for its network of mountain biking trails, which have received acclaim by becoming Canada's first International Mountain Bicycling Association, IMBA Ride Centre. In winter, cross country skiing trails and snowmobile wilderness trails are created. Burns Lake is located in the midst of a large networks of lakes called the Lakes District, with fishing and hunting year round, and water activities in the summer months. There are two Indian reserve, First Nations reserves that are part of the town, and another four nearby, making it one of the few communities in the province that have almost equal populations of persons of native or European descent. Local nations include Wetʼsuwetʼen First N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rocher Déboulé Range
The Rocher Déboulé Range, formerly known as the Roche Déboulé Mountains, is a subrange of the Bulkley Ranges, located south of Hazelton in northern British Columbia, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun .... See also * Hagwilget Peak References #Rocher Déboulé Rangein the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia External links map description Hazelton Mountains Cassiar Land District {{BritishColumbiaInterior-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Matrilineal
Matrilineality, at times called matriliny, is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which people identify with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles. A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant of either gender in which the individuals in all intervening generations are mothers. In a matrilineal descent system, individuals belong to the same descent group as their mothers. This is in contrast to the currently more popular pattern of patrilineal descent from which a family name is usually derived. The matriline of historical nobility was also called their enatic or uterine ancestry, corresponding to the patrilineal or "agnatic" ancestry. Early human kinship Scholars disagree on the nature of early human, that is, Homo sapiens, kinship. In the late 19th century, most scholars believed, influenced by Lewis H. Morgan's book ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
