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Several of the photographs and all of the audio and video recordings on
this website are records created by the Union of British Columbia
Indian Chiefs. They are records of either the UBCIC Communications
Department or the Land Claims Centre. The transcripts of the
McKenna McBride testimonies digitized for this website were
created by the UBCIC Land Claims Centre.
The
following archival
description for these records provide the context in which
these records were created.
Union of BC
Indian Chiefs Communications
Department records consist
of textual records,
graphical materials including photographs, moving images, sound
recordings, and records on microfilm from 1971-2001.
The
Communications department
activities have included recording meetings and workshops, transcribing
minutes and meeting notes, publishing newsletters, photographing UBCIC
activities, communicating with First Nations people in the province,
producing press releases, developing educational materials, events
planning, developing publications such as Our People Speak and Indian
Nations and the Constitution: A Position Paper and producing films,
including The Land is the Culture, We'll Do Our Fishing and Sinumwak
[Bella Coola Oolichan Fishing].
The
records have been in the
custody of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs or its elected
officials. The Resource Centre has physically organized the
records by media, keeping similar sound and moving image recording
together; separate from textual records and photographs and maps.
The
collection of records
consists of meeting minutes, publications including posters,
photographs from the Children's Caravan and newsletters, newspaper
clippings, photocopies of articles from journals, magazines and
newspapers, audio and video recordings of meetings, workshops, maps and
other research materials, recordings of television and radio programs,
public events and conference promotional materials, materials from
Annual General Assemblies and Chiefs Council meetings, and press
releases.
Media
formats of this
collection includes VHS, UMatic, and Beta records, apx 120 8 and 16 mm
colour film reels, computer disks, audio cassette and reel sound
recordings; 19 albums and 8 boxes of photographs. More
accruals are expected.
Union of
British Columbia Indian Chiefs Land
Claims Centre records
consist of textual records,
moving images, sound recordings, and records on microfilm from
1972-1975.
The
Land Claims Centre opened
in Victoria in 1972, with Philip Paul as Director. Staff
included Jan de Klerk, Lou Demerais, Bob Manuel and Reuben
Ware. Resource people included Barbara Lane and Doug
Saunders. The Centre conducted claims research, legal
analysis, and policy analysis, compiled legal, historical and
cartographic research materials, typed and distributed copies of the
transcripts of testimonies given at the McKenna McBride Royal
Commission from 1913 to 1916. Staff at the Land Claims Centre
dealt with freedom of information issues relating to access to
government records and archives, and prepared materials for the
negotiations with the federal and provincial governments relating to
the cut-off lands. The Centre's work included researching
Aboriginal Title (Native Title), and specific claims on cut-off lands,
and relates to comprehensive claims and government fiduciary
obligations. The Land Claims Centre developed the
publications Our Homes Are
Bleeding and The
Lands We Lost.
The
records have been in the
custody of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs or its
agencies. When the UBCIC chose to reject government funding,
the records of the Vancouver office were taken to the Land Claims
Centre. When the Victoria office was closed in 1975, the
records were moved to new offices in Chilliwack. Many of the
Land Claims Centre records and research materials were added to the
Resource Centre's library collection in 1977. The Resource
Centre has physically organized the records by media, keeping similar
sound and moving image recording together; separate from textual
records and photographs and maps.
The
collection of records
consists of position papers, meeting notes, research materials and
notes for specific claims, policy research, audio and video recordings
of meetings and workshops, maps and other research materials, legal
research and council, microfilm copies of records from the National
Archives and the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, and technical
reports.
Media
formats in this
collection include UMatic and video reel recordings, microfilm records,
maps, and reel sound recordings. No more accruals are
expected.