Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 59-76
Description
Relates the events leading to the forced relocation of the residents of Island Cache in Prince George B.C. in the early 1970s and how community research needs to be ethical.
Introduction: anecdote from Chief Lekwotem of Yale Band remarks on watching the salmon run on the Fraser River; water and flood levels of 1882, 1876 and 1894; new Catholic Journal the "British Columbia Record"; reports from more than a dozen BC communities; description of publication on the History of the New Testament in Thompson; news brief on the execution [or murder] of a priest in Laval, France in July 1894; death of "Indian Placide" on May 24 in Shushwap; marriage announcement; 150 Aboriginal people in Halowt - 150 at Shushwap centre and 75 at Upper Church.
The Slayamen: visit in October 1901 by LeJeune and other clergy to the "Slayamen Indian Village called Techossem facing Van Anda" (100 miles from Vancouver) to see the new church with decorated "metallic ceiling." At the Sechelt; Canoe Creek - mass and catechism with illustrations of the magic lantern which "attracted so much Indian attention that the meeting would last till 10 and 1030pm." New Chinook Publications; The Late Rev. L.N. St.