Neskonlith

Description and evaluation of project which involved researching, writing, producing, and delivering a play about the impact of residential schools. Uses project files, key informant interviews, and documents and data collected by community support coordinator.

Includes the following reports: Carry the Kettle First Nation 1905 Surrender Inquiry, Neskonlith, Adams Lake and Little Shuswap Indian Bands, Neskonlith Douglas Reserve Inquiry, Nadleh Whut'en First Nation Lejac School Inquiry, Sturgeon Lake First Nation 1913 Surrender Inquiry, Red Earth and Shoal Lake Cree Nations Quality of Reserve Lands Inquiry, Muskowekwan First Nation 1910 and 1920 Surrender Inquiry and the Michipicoten First Nation Pilot Project (Mediation).[This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down

Submitted specific claim to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development arguing that a reserve had been created in 1862 by the British Crown and was later unlawfully reduced. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

The file contains a presentation on behalf of the Neskonlith Indian Band by Chief Joyce Manuel, Lisa Allgaier, and Bob Manuel. Chief Manuel gives a demographic overview of the Band, discusses culture and the importance of health and education to self-determination and land management. Lisa Allgaier, the Band's social worker, discusses social issues and the need for First Nations' jurisdiction over service delivery, as well as funding and band membership concerns.

Links to text and audio recordings of five legends: Coyote and Grizzly Bear Make the Seasons and Night and Day, Wolf and Wolverine, Story of Hunger (Famine), Wala and the Moon and Coyote and the Salmon.