A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 13, 1997

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TEN YEARS, the people of
Kitsumkalum raised three
fotem poles to symbolize the
renaissance of their culture,

Two poles were erected
outside the band office in
the village and one stands
outside the RCMP detach-
ment in Terrace,

The pole raising event,

called Su-Sit’-Aatk (a new

beginning) also marked the
revival of the potlatch.
“There were 2,000 or so
people up here for the
feast,” explained Clifford

Bolion who was the chief .

councillor at Kitsumkalum
at the time,

The band rented the Ter-
race arena to accommodate
the large number of people
invited to feast following
the pole raising on the 1987
August longweekend.

And today, 10 years Iater,
much has happened since
that new beginning.

The village has a new
community hall, extended
social services, a new sub-
division and is involved in
treaty negotiations.

The band also concluded a

specific land claims and other uatives who story that belongs to the Kit-
setlememt giving it com- here,”’ said Bolion. shared similar traditions, sumkalum people — it
pensation for land taken The pole in front of the = [t was carver Freda Dies- represents the past.

away from it that had
formed part of the original
reserve.

Money from that settle-
ment helped finance the
community hall.

“It was time to start work-
ing on our new identity,
we'd gone through so many
things in 100 years,’’ said
Bolton of the new beginning

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FORMER KITSUMKALUM chief councillor Cliff Bolton, master carver Freda Dies-
ing and carvers Dorothy Horner and son Vernon stand by one of two poles out-
side the village office. The poles, along with one outside the RCMP detachment,

were raised 10 years ago as a new beginning for Kitsumkalum.

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ning of the century,

“We were eslablishing
our identity — letting the
world know that we're

RCMP detachment was.
‘erected to

establish an
identity with the Terrace
community, said Bolton.

‘The poles are symbolic
of the past and the present,”
explained Dr. ‘Jim
McDonald, chair of First
Nations Studies and
Anthropology at the Univer-
sity of Northern British
Columbia.

papers,

Pole project
found guidance from elders

The other pole was a
replica of an older one and
tells a popular bear-mother

organizers

ing that oversaw the carving
of the poles.

“Tt was really a new be-
ginning — il was a proud.

day for the people of Kit- °

sumkalum,”’ reflects Dies-
ing.

Diesing, along with six
other carvers, finished the
three poles in only two sea-
sons. '

_ The carvers performed the
Robin Dance during the si-
multaneous raising of the
two poles,

Traditionally, the Kitsum-
kalum people are known as
the “people of the robin’’,

Diesing has since taught
carving in Prince Rupert and.
some of her students have,
‘continued on to become
master carvers like Norman

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NEGOTIATORS ON the Nisga’a land claim aren’t strug-
gling so much over who gets what as they are about the
meaning of some key words.

At issue as Nisga’a, federal and provincial negotiators
work on details of a final treaty is to what extent that treaty
will define native rights and entitlements,

The federal government uses the phrase “cede, release
and surrender’” in its position that the treaty will be the
final word for Nisga’a rights and entitlements.

Its pasition stems from the Constitution which recog-
nizes and affirms native rights but doesn’t spell them out.

“There are rights but they aren’t defined and the treaty
does that,’’ says Tom Molloy, the federal government's :
chief negotiator on the Nisga’a claim.

In that context, native groups give up whalever righis
granted under the Constitution — undefined, unknown and
murky as they are — in favour of specific details contained
in treaties.

But while the two governments and the Nisga’a may
reach agreement on self-government, money and resources
in a treaty, it’s another matter when it comes to the Nisga’a
giving up rights to land and resources in territory they
claint as traditional but not covered in a final treaty.

‘Our view is that no such words will be in the final

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That’s in keeping with the Nisga’a position that they are
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Molloy recognizes the difficulty in finding words that
work for all concerned.

“It’s an emotional issue,’’ he said of the Nisga’a posi-
tion and that of other native groups working toward
uealics.

“They'd feel there’s less of a connection to their history
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To date, negotiators haven't found the right combination
“of words to replace ‘‘cede, surrender and release” and to
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“COR (Council of Forest Industries) and third parties
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as ‘“‘cede, surrender and release” found offensive by native
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