Cheslatta Trail
The Cheslatta Trail , in the Dakelh Tset'ladak t'seti language , is a former trading trail in the Canadian province of British Columbia , which runs from the Dakelh villages of Behlk'achele and Sdughachola on Cheslatta Lake to a village of Nadleh Whut'en First Nation on Fraser Lake .
With the construction of the Kenney reservoir with its 97 m high dam wall from 1951 to 1967, the Cheslatta Lake was flooded on over 90,000 hectares from 1954, the approximately 200 Cheslatta had their four villages on the lake shore and on the river as well as their land to the extent of 1053 ha left within ten days. The compensation paid out a year later was only a twentieth of the usual amount, the graves of their ancestors were swept away and they initially lived in overcrowded tents. Compensation was not made until 1993. It was not until 1964 that the new villages were combined into a reserve.
The Cheslatta Trail was one of the grease trails that transported the buttery fat of the candlefish ( Thaleichthys pacificus ), a popular commodity throughout Northwest America.
From Nadleh, where another path began from Fraser Lake to Stuart Lake , the path passed what is now Beaumont Provincial Park , crossed BC Highway 16 , and then turned towards Drywilliams Lake . Today the path begins at 7.5 km of the Holy Cross Forest Road , i.e. 6 km west of Beaumont Park on Highway 16, crosses 60 km of forest and passes several lakes, namely Klez, Chowsunkut, Hallet, Bentzi, Targe Lake and Holy Cross Lake . In the village Belhk'a chek at the mouth of Knapp Creek in the Cheslatta Lake the path ends.
The Cheslatta Carrier Nation has maintained a 25,000 hectare forest since 2002, which it is only allowed to use. In 2009, the Community Development Trust helped restore some sections of the trail.
Remarks
- ^ The Cheslatta T'en and the Kemano Hydro Project .
- ^ JE Windsor, McVey: Annihilation of Both Place and Sense of Place: The Experience of the Cheslatta T'En Canadian First Nation within the Context of Large-Scale Environmental Projects , in: The Geographical Journal 171.2 (2005).
- ↑ A photo of mounted Indians on the Cheslatta Trail can be found here .
- ↑ According to the area given by L. Kris MacLellan, Peter Duinker: Community Forests. A Discussion Paper for Nova Scotians , Dalhousie University, Halifax 2012, p. 5.
- ↑ Publication of the government of British Columbia ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 24, 2009.
