Kitty
With Katzie or Katzie First Nation is a Canadian First Nation in British Columbia called, who lived in Pitt Meadows and on Barnston Island as well as on Yorkson Creek in Langley . They speak the downriver dialect of Halkomelem , a language that is part of the Salish language family . The traditional area of the 531 Katzie (March 2013) stretches from the Fraser River to the Pitt Lake catchment area including some areas on the Alouette.
Although they belong to the Stó: lō group, they conduct their land negotiations with British Columbia independently and do not belong to the Stó: lō Nation Tribal Council.
history
Early history
The historiography of the katzie is in the extraordinary position of having an early document. In 1936, at the age of 75, Peter Pierre gave interviews to the ethnologist Diamond Jenness, which were published under the title The faith of a Coast Salish Indian 1955. He was a medicine man and was selected and taught at the age of eight to pass on the oral tradition. His son Simon translated these stories and later added his own, working with the ethnologist Wayne Suttles . These traditions were published together.
The Katzie Nation originally consisted of five groups, each with a chief. These chiefs were Oe'lecten (tribe at Pitt Lake), Swaneset (Sheridan Hill), Xwoe'pecten (Port Hammond) - his tribe later defected as Kwantlen -, Smakwec at Point Roberts in Washington - his people, the Nicomek, fell victim to one of the early smallpox epidemics - and C'simlenexw at Point Gray - his offspring became the Musqueam . Today's Katzie are mainly traced back to the tribes of the chiefs Oe'lecten and Swaneset .
The Katzie lived in ten villages and can already be found around 1600 BC. To be called farmers. They traced back to their creator Khaals, who also divided the tribe into five groups and settled in their traditional places of residence. He endowed each tribe with different powers. For example, Oe'lecten was endowed with the seasons and the rainbow, Smakwec was given power over the underground canals between Point Roberts and Pitt Lake, Sechelt and other places. C'simlenexw gained power over the Swayxway mask.
European contacts
Contract negotiations and current situation
In 2000, the Katzie and the provincial government signed an agreement in principle as part of the BC Treaty Process , which the Katzie had entered in 1994.
When the Golden Ears Bridge was to be built in Katzie area, more precisely right next to Barnston Island between Surrey and Maple Ridge, the tribe signed an agreement with TransLink in September 2004, which laid down the mutual obligations. Construction began in early 2007 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2008 or 2009. At the opposite end of the island is the Teal-Jones Group Surrey Mill , which was built to process wood.
At the same time, the alliance between environmentalists and Indians that has existed for decades is showing the first cracks. The latter are selling logging rights or cutting down forest areas themselves (69,000 cubic meters in 2005), since they saw opportunities to participate more. But this is also hotly disputed between the tribes.
The nations bordering the Fraser River have lived on salmon for millennia. But in 2007, instead of the expected 6.3 million sockeyes (a type of salmon), only 1.6 million came. The government immediately issued a fishing ban, this time also for the First Nations.
Reservations
The five reservations of the Katzie are in the New Westminster District , namely on the Fraser River near Port Hammond , on the south coast of Barnston Island, and at the point where the Pitt River emerges from Pitt Lake. Katzie 1 and Katzie 2 on the Fraser River cover 44.1 and 23.1 hectares respectively. The reserve on Barnston Island covers 54.6 hectares. The largest reserve with 218.5 hectares is on Pitt Lake, the smallest with 0.4 ha is a cemetery ( Pitt Lake 4 , or Graveyard 5 ). All reserves together cover a good 340 hectares. In March 2013, 306 katzies lived in the reserve, 7 in those of other tribes and 218 outside the reserves. There were a total of 531 cats registered as Indians in the sense of the Indian law .
See also
- History of the Coastal Salish
- History of British Columbia
- First Nations history
- List of Indian tribes recognized in Canada
literature
- KT Carlson (ed.): A Sto: lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas , Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre 2001
- Wayne P. Suttles, Katzie Ethnographic Notes, with: The faith of a Coast Salish Indian , by Diamond Jenness, Victoria: Anthropology in British Columbia; memoir no.2, 1955
- Wayne Suttles (Ed.): Handbook of North American Indians . Volume 7: Northwest Coast. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC 1990. ISBN 0-87474-187-4
- Blanche Pearsall: Scattered Leaves, Maple Ridge , self-published 1978
Web links
- Katzie First Nation website since fall 2002
- Map of the traditional area of the katzie
- Katzie First Nation
Remarks
- ↑ See Brian Lewis, Katzie heritage site being bulldozed for bridge. Only three per cent of artifacts have been recovered so far , in: The Province, June 22, 2008.
- ↑ See Katzie History .
- ↑ According to the information from the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development , First Nation Profiles: Katzie ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
