Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, CAA2022, Research Projects, Settler appropriation on Apr 28th, 2022 Comments Off on ‘Nothing of significance here:’ Archeologists and Abalone.
I’ve had a thing for bilhaa (abalone) for some time. I grew up eating them and picking them when given the chance. Then I got asked to write an expert opinion in the early 2000s by David Robins (lawyer with Woodward & Company) when a fellow community member was charged with illegal harvest and possession […]
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Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, CAA2022, Research Projects on Apr 28th, 2022 Comments Off on Mapping Citeyats
In preparing my post on the waakyil patch Iain McKechnie reminded me of the outcomes of our mapping work. I include some of the images that project produced. But Iain also reminded me of how Teddy Gamble showed/taught him about wooms (devil’s club) after Teddy saw some of the bushes that were cut down before […]
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Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, CAA2022, Research Projects, Settler appropriation on Apr 28th, 2022 Comments Off on The archaeologist and the waakyil (currant) patch.
In 2008 I chartered a vessel for a pilot project exploring intertidal stone traps. This was the gateway to a decade and a half archaeological adventure. My family was the crew in 2008 and we sailed from Vancouver to laxyuup Gitxxała in a 40 foot vessel. We worked our way through the territory one cove, […]
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