Never seen this map before?
That's because it was recently created by AQ.
175 years ago, BC's government recognized, honoured, and bought their way into Coast Salish territories. After that, the colony warred and Gold-Rushed its way on to the lands, ignoring its treaties.
It's a history that's not well-enough known.
The West Wasn’t Won archive project comes out of decades of archival collection, many donated by life-long Indigenous political veterans. Archive Quarterly is the journal of this project, engaging public interest while publishing informative, curated, rare collections in every issue.
The archive is currently housed by Electromagnetic Print, books that resonate, and EMP subsidizes the online archive space and digitization as well. The future vision is for a fully realized physical archive, open to the public. It's a project that, if successful, will outlive us all.
Imagine the teenage student, the researcher, the lawyer - 30 years from now - walking into a room where they can flip through news clippings from all the major roadblocks of the 20th century - and the grassroots Indigenous press releases, pictures, and interviews that go along with them. Where they have access to all the memos, the Inquiries, the working reports, and the ministerial letters explaining the cancellation of funds, before any recommendations were implemented, in a cycle of state control of Indigenous children and families that has repeated itself at least five times since the 1980s. They would have the communications leading up to the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement, the failed "BC Treaty Commission," "New Relationship" and "Transformative Change Agreement," the centuries of conflict over fisheries; the lawfare and the community resistance. And so much more.
The founding group welcomes new members, working towards an archive that celebrates and memorializes the indomitable spirit of the Peoples west of the Rocky Mountains.
Archive Quarterly is the first vehicle to mobilize awareness, support, and the benefit of this archive.
It is growing quickly! with more contributors, interviews, and pages coming in the July issue.
We have major ambitions for AQ this first year, looking at:
- 50 years since the armed standoff over housing, denial of land title and access to resources, at Bonaparte, near Cache Creek
- 20 years since formalization of “consultation and accommodation” in Haida and Taku
- 50th Anniversary of the Native Women’s Association of Canada: what was life like in the 1970s, especially for the women who lost Indian Status?
- The War of 1864; the Governor’s picnic at New Westminster that spring, and the Douglas Tribes who boycotted it
- 50 years of the Comprehensive Claims Policy, which followed the 1973 breakthrough Calder decision on native title
- An interview series on the connection between child apprehension and the denial of title
… and launching our first Special Issues, on Children and Title. We’re already partnering up for Special Issues next year on Fisheries (four full salmon cycles since the crash of 2009!) and the Non-Status Indian Era (40 years since Aboriginal organizations broke in to the Standing Committee to influence Bill C-31!).
It takes a community to raise the next generation.
AQ can help carry these carefully preserved teaching materials forward, and you can help AQ.
Thank you!
Your support by endorsement, donation, or promoting the journal - whatever you can do - will make the difference to this project's success. We look forward to announcing our membership and board, made up of historians, former Chiefs, political veterans, academics, artists, media experts, lawyers, young social media savvy interns, families, students, film makers, roadblockers, analysts, social organizers, writers, publishers and specialized experts.
We look forward to acknowledging your help as a Founding Sponsor: inviting you to events, sending you the Special Issues, and you'll get a digital subscription to Archive Quarterly that you can share throughout your organization.
You have the option to have your logo and link to your web page displayed in our acknowledgments, on the AQ homepage. Just follow up through Contact Us to provide your details.
Let us know what else AQ can do for you. We’ll keep you posted on our developing offers, like travelling exhibits and speaker engagement, and working together with your own local archivists and researchers to pull docs from the collection and recommend resources.
Yours in healing, restitution, and reparation,
Kerry Coast
Publisher
Electromagnetic Print
Chief William Scow of Alert Bay's testimonial on the Potlatch Laws is featured in April.
Key excerpts from the Supreme Court of Canada decision, 2014, in R. v. William - the first and only judicial Declaration of Aboriginal title since the Calder (Nisga'a) decision in 1973.
Book review, Lha Yudithe - We Always Find A Way, by Lorraine Weir and Chief Roger William
Interviews with Wolverine and Brian Grandbois.
Map of Secwepemc standoffs over 150 years.
The on-reserve housing crisis: how young Aboriginal families without land rights are vulnerable to social workers.
"On 29th February, 1924, the Allied Tribes opposed the passing of Order-in-Council of the Government of Canada adopting the Report of the Royal Commission into Indian affairs in British Columbia having been fully adjusted..."
Judicial recognition of the Crown's fiduciary duty on lands that may be subject to Aboriginal title, prior to "proof," were elaborated in two 2004 cases brought by the Haida Nation and Taku River Tlingit.
From this image, in 1989 Vallican, Sinixt, through Jumbo, Sun Peaks, Big White, Whistler, and Sutikalh - Indigenous Peoples have defended their sacred mountains from becoming the playlands of settler recreation. They have not often succeeded.
In claiming all the land west of the Rocky Mountains, BC was denied by Canada’s Attorney General. The AG’s reasoning - reprinted in the April issue of AQ - gives a clear picture of today’s outstanding land question, and helps explain the Province’s most recent Lands Act amendment proposal this spring - as well as its cancellation.
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