FINDING OUR WAY 1
Finding Our Way
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(24 min) Chapter 1: The Contagion of Colonization
Thousands of years before Europeans first set foot in the northern part of the North American continent, diverse Native peoples occupied these lands, each with their own tribal territory that provided the resources for survival. The arrival of Europeans first disrupted then devastated these First Nations. Through interviews with members of these First Nations today, we learn about life before contact with European settlers, and then of the systematic attempt by colonizers to destroy Native culture: through the Indian Act; the Reserve System of Indian Lands; and the Residential School system.
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FINDING OUR WAY 2
(31 min) Chapter 2: High Noon in Burns Lake
This chapter tells of the century long conflict between Ts’il Kaz Koh First Nation (Burns Lake Band) and the Village of Burns Lake, a conflict primarily about expropriated land, but also about “the two solitudes,” the apartheid that has separated Nativ...
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FINDING OUR WAY 3
(30 min) Chapter 3: Keeping Our Heads above Water
Chapter three relates the tragic story of the eviction in April 1952 of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation from their ancestral lands by the Aluminium Company of Canada (Alcan), in association with the government of Canada and the Province of British C...
