- Abbotsford
- Agassiz
- Alert Bay
- Alexis Creek
- Alice Arm
- Armstrong
- Barkerville
- Bella Bella
- Bella Coola
- Burnaby
- Burns Lake
- Campbell Island
- Campbell River
- Canim Lake
- Chase
- Chemainus
- Chetwynd
- Chilliwack
- Clinton
- Courtenay
- Cranbrook
- Dawson Creek
- Douglas Lake
- Duncan
- Endako
- Esquimalt
- Fernie
- Fort Nelson
- Fort St. John
- Galiano Island
- Gingolx
- Gitanyow
- Gitwinksihlkw
- Good Hope Lake
- Greenville
- Haida Gwaii
- Hartley Bay
- Hazelton
- Hope
- Invermere
- James Bay
- Kamloops
- Kelly Lake
- Kelowna
- Keremeos
- Kispiox
- Kitamaat Village
- Kitimat
- Kitsumkalum
- Kitwanga
- Lax Kw\'alaams
- Laxgalts\'ap
- Lillooet
- Lytton
- Merritt
- Metlakatla
- Mica Creek
- Middle River
- Mission
- Moberly Lake
- Mount Currie
- Nanaimo
- New Aiyansh
- New Denver
- New Westminster
- Okanagan
- Oliver
- Osoyoos
- Penticton
- Port Alberni
- Port Coquitlam
- Port Essington
- Port Hardy
- Port Moody
- Port Simpson
- Powell River
- Prince George
- Prince Rupert
- Queen Charlotte Islands
- Richmond
- Rock Creek
- Saanich
- Salmon Arm
- Sardis
- Shelley
- Skidegate
- Smithers
- Sooke
- Spuzzum
- Squamish
- Surrey
- Telegraph Creek
- Terrace
- Tofino
- Tsawwassen
- Ucluelet
- Vancouver
- Vancouver Island
- Vanderhoof
- Vernon
- Victoria
- Whistler
- White Rock
- Williams Lake
Kate Hennessy-Repatriation, Digital Media, and Culture in the Virtual Museum
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kate Hennessay
Description
Discusses two perspectives on repatriation of cultural property in relation to virtual repatriation and associated community media projects by the Doig River First Nation and the Inuvialuit community in the western Arctic and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Duration: 40:36
A KCNQ1 V205M Missense Mutation Causes a High Rate Of Long QT Syndrome in a First Nations Community of Northern British Columbia: A Community-Based Approach To Understanding the Impact
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Arbour
Saman Rezazdeh
Jodene Eldstrom
Gwen Weget-Simms
Rosemarie Rupps
et al.
Genetics In Medicine, vol. 10, no. 7, July 2008, pp. 545-550
Description
Study identified a missense mutation in two index cases from a northern British Columbia Gitxsan First Nation community which likely increases susceptibility to arrhythmias. Twenty relatives were found to carry the same mutation, while 102 relatives were without the mutation. The identification of this mutation allows diagnosis of a predisposition to the syndrome and medical management.
Keep Your (Fiduciary) Hands Off My Money: Louie v. Louie, 2015 BCCA 247
Alternate Title
Insights (McMillan LLP)
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joan M. Young
Gurleen Randhawa
[McMillan Aboriginal Law Bulletin], November 2015, pp. [1]-4
Description
Comments on the limitations of powers conferred by the Indian Act to Band and Band Councils.
["Keeping the Lakes' Way": Reburial and the Re-Creation of a Moral World Among an Invisible People]
Alternate Title
Book Reviews: Keeping the Lakes' Way: Reburial and the Re-Creation of a Moral World Among an Invisible People
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Wendy Aasen
Native Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 146-149
Description
Book review of: "Keeping the Lakes' Way" by Paula Pryce.
Key Events in the Gitksan Encounter With the Colonial World
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
James A. McDonald
Jennifer Joseph
Description
Looks at the historical time line of the Gitksan peoples since colonization.
Pre-publication of book chapter: Potlatch at Gisegukla: William Beyon's 1945 Fieldbooks edited by Margaret Anderson and Marjorie Halpin.
Kidnapped Stó:lō Boys
Alternate Title
The Kidnapping of Stó:lō Boys During the Fraser River Gold Rush
The Kidnapping of Sto:lo Boys During the Fraser River Gold Rush
Kidnapped Sto:lo Boys
Lost Stories Project
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lost Stories Project
Sandra Bonner-Pederson
Ronald Rudin
Bear Image Productions
Description
Video tells the story of Sto:lo boys who were taken from their homes by prospectors for the purpose of using them as labourers in the California goldfields and the community's commemoration of the event.
Duration: 19:38.
Kindreds and States: Using Anglo-Saxon and Gitxsan Law to Help Reconcile Aboriginal and Crown Sovereignty
Alternate Title
First Nations, First Thoughts Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Richard Overstall
Description
Discusses the nature of aboriginal law and Anglo-Canadian common law and how the two legal orders may interact in the modern Canadian state.
Kinship Care: A Community Alternative to Foster Care
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jeannine Carriere-Laboucane
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Inaugural Edition, May 1997, pp. 43-53
Description
Looks at a kinship care model that preserve the integrity and autonomy for First Nations, recognizing the importance of prior relationships between the child, caregiver and community, and is rooted in traditional connectedness.
Kitselas Canyon 1
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[George F. MacDonald]
[Bill Reid Centre]
Description
Video features historical photos of villages located in the Kitselas Canyon in British Columbia and archaeological digs that took place in the late 1960's and 1970's.
Duration: 19:55.
The Kitselas of British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George T. Emmons
American Anthropologist, vol. 14, no. 3, New Series, July-September 1912, pp. 467-471
Description
Early 20th century description of the land and the "people of the cañon", the Gitdsilasshoo or Kitselas who are of Tsimshian ancestry. Includes illustrations of poles.
Klahowya Tillicum: Coming Home to the Stories and Songs of the West Coast
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Edward Chamberlin
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, Special Issue: Finding Common Ground, Spring, 2012, pp. 99-121
Description
Analyzes how narratives and songs are influenced by language and land, particularly Chinook.
Klee Wyck: The Eye of the Other
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hilda L. Thomas
Canadian Literature, no. 136, Nature, Politics, Poetics, Spring, 1993, pp. 5-20
Description
Focuses on several facets of Emily Carr's book Klee Wyck: the feminist tone; the effect of modernism on native life; examination of the sketches; the message of disintegration, loss and of hope.
Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle
Alternate Title
[Kuper Island: Residential School Survivors Documentary]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Christine Welsh
Peter C. Campbell
Gumboot Productions
Description
Documentary looks at the healing journey of the survivors of Kuper Island residential school 20 years after its closure.
Duration: 43:33.
The Kutenai Female Berdache: Courier, Guide, Prophetess and Warrior
Alternate Title
The Kootenai Female Berdache: Courier, Guide, Prophetess and Warrior
The Kootenay Female Berdache: Courier, Guide, Prophetess and Warrior
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claude E. Schaeffer
Ethnohistory, vol. 12, no. 3, Summer, 1965, pp. 193-236
Description
Ququonok Patke, a famous 19th century female berdache, whose role included mediation between the Flathead and Blackfoot peoples, was also recognized as a courier, warrior and guide.
Kw’í:ts’téleq
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Jazmine Horne
SXG Team
Melissa Kendzierski
Theresa Warbus
Theresa Point ... [et al.]
Description
Page contains links to individual isssues of the comic book about a Stó:lō boy who escapes residential school and goes on a journey to learn from the ancestors about ways Stó:lō communities can work together.
The Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) and Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) of Vancouver at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Parezo
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009, pp. 121-131
Description
Discusses the ethnographic exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis that included a group of Nootka and Kwakiutl cultural performers and artists, as well as a traditional native house, a canoe, and other artifacts.
Kwakiutl Texts I
Alternate Title
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 5. Anthropology ; v. 4
Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; v.3, pt. 1
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Franz Boas
George Hunt
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v.5 (p. [3]-270).
Kwakiutl Texts II
Alternate Title
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 5. Anthropology ; v. 4
[Publications of] the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; v. 2, pt. 2
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Franz Boas
George Hunt
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 5 (p. [271]-[402]).
Kwakiutl Texts III
Alternate Title
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 5. Anthropology ; v. 4
[Publications of] the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; v. [3], pt. 3
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Franz Boas
George Hunt
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 5 (p. [403]-532).
Kwakiutl Texts. Second Series
Alternate Title
Memoir[s] of the American Museum of Natural History ; [v. 14]
Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; v. 10, pt. 1
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
George Hunt
Franz Boas
Description
Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 14 (p. [3]-269).
Kwakwaka’wakw on Film
Alternate Title
Chapter 12: Kwakwaka’wakw on Film
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Description
Compares films using Kwakwaka’wakw ceremonies made by white filmmakers and the U'mista Cultural Society to discuss how culture is represented in film through different view points.
Chapter from Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations edited by David McNab and Ute Lischke.
kwu_sqwa?qwa?álx (We Begin to Speak): Our Journey Within Nsyilxcn (Okanagan) Language Revitalization
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michele K. Johnson
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 35, no. 1, Indigenous Pedagogies Resurgence and Restoration, 2012, pp. 79-97, 222
Description
Discusses the importance of going beyond language teaching to promote the use, preservation and revitalization of the Nsyilxcn language.
Laayksen Mustimuhw and Snuw'uy'ul
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robina Thomas
ĆELÁNEN: a Journal of Indigenous Governance, vol. 1, no. 1, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the history of the Laayksen Mustimuhw, including looking at the implications of land loss as well as human rights violations.
Labour of Love: Legends of Vancouver and the Unique Publishing Enterprise that Wrote E. Pauline Johnson into Canadian Literary History
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Quirk
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 47, no. 2, 2009, pp. [201]-251
Description
History of publishing company started by a group of journalists and socialites from Vancouver who got together to publish Legends of Vancouver to help their sick friend pay for medical expenses.
Land Entitlement Under Treaty 8
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Metcs and Christopher G. Devlin
Alberta Law Review, vol. 41, no. 4, April 2004, pp. 951-997
Description
Analysis of land entitlement provisions and the federal treaty land entitlement policy in the Lac La Ronge judgment. Concludes there's been a shift away from the historical intentions of the original parties to Treaty 8.