Page AB — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 11, 1992

Documentary
features
the Nisga’a

TERRACE —The scene is a
crowded community hall in the
Nass Valley. Strong drum beats
echo off the walls.

In walks Jack Weisgerber, at
that time the Social Credit
native affairs minister. He's
there to sign documents official-
ly including the province in land
claims negotiations with the
Nisga’a and the federal govern-
ment. —

Just to Weisgerber’s right is a
dance group that also providing
the drum beats,

One of the dancers lunges
toward Weisgerber with a smile
on his face and an extra rap on
his drum,

The dancer is Nisga’a Tribal
Council executive director Rod
Robinson and the scene is one
of the opening segments of a
documentary airing later this
month on the Knowledge Net-
work.

Time immemorial, written
and produced by Hugh Brody,
is an hour-long examination of
the Nisga’a, part of a series call-
ed Native Indians: Images of
Reality.

As the title suggests, the film
lays out the Nisga’a case for its
land claim centered on the Nass
Valley.

From conversations with
fishermen to young people lear-
ning how oolichan are process-
ed and from interviews with
current leaders to archival film
of past leaders, the Nisga’a case
for continuous use and occupa-
tion of the land is cleverly put.

There’s executive director
Robinson relating the story of
the first white surveyors wan-
ting to assign the Nisga’a small
parcels of land. .

“Why? When we own the
land already,’’ was the reply.

There’s former tribal council
president James Gosnell at a

mid-1960s convention of the
council,

AiReople in New York are get-,
ling-fich over my country,”!:he-

says. ‘There's mountains get-
ting stripped — everything's
taken away from us.’’

Time Immemorial is really
two films — one about the
Nisga’a and one about their ef-
fort to prove they have title.

Yet they are inextricably con-
nected, For as the film shows,
the Nisga’a are connected to the
land and its resources. That’s
why the Nisga’a don’t use the
term “land claim’’. They prefer
“land question”,

And it was the Nisga'a wha

Deadline

TERRACE — A group trying
to put together an affordable
housing project for seniors here
wants to hear from potential
tenants — and quickly,

The group faces an April 7
deadline to apply for provincial
money if it wants to make pro-
gress this year, says Seniors Ac-
cess Information Centre ex-
ecutive director Cherie Kamenz.

The application is being made
to provincial government’s B.C.
Housing Management Commis-
sion (BCHMC),

Kamenz emphasized applica-
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seniors have signed up for the
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BCHMC rules require five peo-
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Under the program, Kamenz
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Those wishing to get their
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Kamenz as soon as possible at
638-1330.

first went to the courts to fight
for native title.

Named for Nisga’a leader’
Frank Calder, the Calder case
ended up in the Supreme Court
of Canada. The interview with
him is marvelous for its sense of
wonderment over what happen-
ed and for what the case lead to.

That portion of Time Jm-
memorial, essentially the vin-
dication of 100 years of Nisga’a
work, also helps lay. out the
groundwork for what they are
doing today.

Viewers also get a glimpse of
Nisga’a humour, At a com-
munity feast two people appear,
one wearing a Friday the 13th
Jason Kruger hockey mask and
the other a Brian Mulroney
mask. Tied around the waist of
the latter is what looks like large
male genitialia.

Time Immemorial airs March
25 at 8 p.m, Channel 12,
Knowledge Nefwork. It repeats
March 30 at 16 p.m.

at the school. It was just one of many open house
throughout the city’s schoois during education week.

Magic melodies

UPLANDS ELEMENTARY school student Tracy Manchulenko
taps out a tune on one of the xylaphanes in the music portable

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