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Curator’s Cubicle

BY MORGAN B. CAMPBELL

New exhibits and the loan of
such are now appearing almost
daily and I feel sure thal by the
end of the summer, the
museum will have added
considerably to its collection.

1 understand that further
digging is going on near the
Kitsolas dig, Dr. McDonald and
his collegues are up again and
while Pr. MeDonald is checking
on possible new sites his
assistant Louis Allaire has a
parly digging in the area of the
‘fortress’.

This is the site from which the
caste of the house post now in
the municiple building was
found. | wish them suecess and
hope that we will benefit from
‘any finds (hey might make.

Many legends exist as to the
origins of the various Indian
bands to he found on the North
West Coast of Alaska, Canada
and the USA. Many of these
stories are obscured hy the

e
sooner 1s 2 ange

SALMON EATER wearing
cormmorant cap.
Photo by Morgan B. Camphelt{

slory tellers wha have often
added to them to show ‘the
importance of their own tribe or
clan.

There is enough similarity in
them to assume that the people
that we now know as. the
Tlinglet. Haida and Tsiemshen
are descendant From a common
source.

In the legend of the voleano
Woman their are many
different versions. The least
added to version is that-of the
Haidas,

Six canoe loads of people
sailed east oul of the bitter seas.
They were fugilives seeking
warmer climate anda promised
land called Temlahan. ¢ The site
of Femlahan is believed to be

‘near Hazelton al the Junction of
the Skeena, Bulklev and Kispiox
al Carnaby. Temlahan was a
supposed garden af Fiden.)

Famished and weary from
the long and perilous journey
they at last saw a wild wooded
coast’ This land looked like none
they had seen before. It was in
fact the. Kodiacs of Alaska.
They set foot there and made
camp. They met and made
friends with (he savage ‘grizzly

_ hear’ (tribe), In time the village

grew under the leadership of
Salmon Eater (Gitrhawn)
As a reminder of their

‘mongolian homeland the chief

were 2 carmmorant cap, This
cip.was soon to cause slrife
when passed on to his
descendant, The cap was
decorated by Frog, who made
his eyes of copper as a symbol
of his ancestral past. The frog
was an important object among
the asiatics and many tribes
carried small carvings of Frog
on their person,

The nephew of Kait the chief
of the Grizzly Bear clan aspired
Io marry Salmon Ealer'’s Niece
Nzelarnons the finest princess
of the land. The marriage was
agreed upon and Dzelarhons
was brought in style to the
house of her new husband at
Na‘a. .

Wilh elaborate preparation’

This tees i not pubished ar spy by the Liquor Control Board or ty the  Goiemment af Baten cat

the bride was made ready, clad
in breaches and 4 robes, At
nighl the bridegroom who was
to keep her company, bade her
hold a pilwood torch all night.
This torch burned down and to
protect herself Dzelarhons
rolied up her sleeve to keep the
heal from her hand, When that
became {oo hot she rolled up
more of the sleeve, She
continued (o do this. until, the
dress was completely scorched
and the lorch went out.

This. occured the following
three nighis. On the forth
morning her father sent over
faod for the wedding feast,
When he saw his daughter
nuked he was angry and
Prepared for war. While they

were preparing Dzelarhons -

disappeared.

A stone statue was laler found
from which a spring issued. this
was poor Dzelarhons.

This misfortune was soon
follawed by others, first the
death of Kawa, Salmon Ealers
eldest nephew. (the nephew
hecomes chief not the son)

Nzelarhons appeared to the
people as a flaming
supermialural woman carrying a
staff wilh a carved Frog handle.
She predicted disaster. And sa it
happened, a huge fireball
destroved the village of Na'‘a
(Nass River)

A young princess who was in
seclusion in the hills because of
the onset of pubily was the only
survivor. She was found by an
old min and his slave.

Taking the tribes seven
canoes she went with thern and
so0)6crme = oto) 6the $6 land = of
Temlanan. Here she married
Kvemneak. She bore him a son
who took the name Salmon-
Eater,

The legend of the fireball
in the Tsiemshen
legend is related to the voleano
eruption on the Nass and if this
is the real site of the village of:
Na'a then the legend which is
found in all the stories of the
various tribes belongs to the

Tsiemshen.

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TERRACE -HERALD, TERRACE B.C.

Northern ~ Council
suffering pangs

BY GERRY SOROKA

The’ youthful Northern Development Councit,

whose primary aim

is to pressure federal

government officials into opening their purse
strings for Northern B.C. still is suffering from

birth pangs. -.

A meeting of the six representative regional ©
recently was

districts

bogged down over

procedure, guidelines and policy.

“A frustrated Mayor’ Harold
Motist of Prince George brought
the group out of this mire and
allcited from divergent areas
some cohesion of opinion on pre
clsely what the priorities are,

But agreement did not come
without a struggle,

Divided on cims ©

The council is comprised of
the regional districts of Skeena
A, Kitimat-Stikine, Bulkley-Ne-
chako, Fraser-Fort George,
Peace River=Liard and Cariboo-
Chilcotin,

It was formed earlier thisyear
to urge the federal and, in some
cases, the provincial govern-
ments to support financially and
accelerate the growth of the nor=
thern part of BC,

The council seeks. to promote
_ industrial, growth and resource
exploitation of a vast area ex-
tending from the 52nd parallel
to the Yukon and Alaska bor=
ders,

The southerly boundary is just
south of Williams Lake and Bel-
la Coola, .

All six districts were repra«
sented at the meeting which was
to have set priorities to send to
Ottawa,

However, net all six agreed
on what the aims of the group
should be,

Cariboo-Chilcotin represen=
tative Sam McRae stunned his
colleagues When he questioned
the apparent aims of the council
and Lashed oul at corporations
and industrial barons running
roughshod over B,C, natural ree,
sources.

This unexpected outburst from
a member of a supposed clique
committed to quick amd total ex-
pansion of the north left most

_of the’ representatives briefly

speechless,. .

Moffat commented weakly:
“That’s a subject for discussion
in ilse li.”

Chetwynd Mayor Frank Ob-~

© erly, however, hardly paused for

breath before agreeing with Mc-

Rae and question{ng the. dirace

ion the, council was taking; +
“Northe' a ne cot

only development of’our natural

resources but development of

our human resources,”

' * “falking philosophy’

Vern Ciccone of Prince Rus
part tock exception to McRae’s
‘inference that the rest of us
are crass, unfeeling people who
want to rape the earth,

“Tf we aren't talking about
opening up the north for people,
then I don't know what we're
talking about.

‘Js this our determination or
not? There is no use to sit around
here — we're talking Phlloso-
phy.” .

Almost - before the meéting
got underway, a dispute erupted
‘between Moffat and Kitimat al-

derman Joe Banyay over a $455.

assessment to. Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District.
Moffat threatened to resign
unless the money was paid up,
The council representatives

inferred unanimous agreement -

that their position as an Oltawa
pressure group would be
Weakenad almost fatally by withe
drawal of Kitimgt-st dkine,

Vote taken ;
He wanted the council to play

’ down any emphasis on total com=

mitment to development of pri-
mary industry which would eat
up basic natural resources and
convinced the group that they
should. constitutionally elect a
chairman and appoint a secres
tary treasurer,

Up to that. point, Moffat was
“acting as chairman on what ap-
peared to be casual consent of
the other members, A vote was
then taken to naine him chair=
man and to de¢lare Jim Lang,
Fraser-Fort George: Industrial
development commissioner, as
secretary-treasurer, —

At that turning point,’ mem-
bers agreed on the urgency of
some matters and worded reso-
lutions to go to Cttawa imme-
diately.

On the basis of development
of transportation routes — rail
and road to areas mot supplied
by these services -- four reso=
lutions were drafted.

The first was that the fed-
eral government proceed im-
mediately to develop a port on
the north coast, Emphasis was
laid on avoiding parochial ap-
proaches in the’ council's rep-
resentations to Ottawa, - .

Three coastal areas are seeke
ing a port — Kitimat, Prince
Rupert. and Stewart, The coun-
‘cll stressed that overtures to
Ottawa would be-made on a to-
tal northern development basis.
rather than by indicating sup<"
port*for any one ofthe three.
communities,

A-second resolution was to
urge construction of a railway
Linking the Pacific Great East-
ern’ in the Dease Lake area to
the Canadian National line.

There are two possible routes
tor this rallway but the objective
would be to open up a yast tri-
angle bounded by Dease Lake
(and north), Hazelton ané Prince
Rupert, :

The Line ‘would provide trans-

portation for anticipated de~
Felopment of timber and mix
eral resources and provide a
tourist routé to an area practle
cally inaccessible,

promotes.

In line” with the Abbotsfore
International airshow's purpose

of fostering and promoting
aviation in all forms, the Air -
Show Executive first gave
consideration. to a V-STOL
Symposium . well over ayear
ago. Subsequent discussions
with industry, government
departments and various
interested groups soon iead to
the conclusion, that while there
have been a number of highly
technica symposiums on V-
STOL, there was very. great
need of and interest in one that
would be non-technical -
nature, ‘and directed primarily
at individuals, civic groups,
municipal ‘and — provincial
governments, who must one day
become involved. ;
For the aviation industry, the
symposium provides the ©
opportunities to meet with and
obtain the reaction of those who
will some day, if it is to- be a
success, take a major part in
planning and bringing into
being this new form of
communily transportation.

‘aviation.

In shert,. the symposium ‘bey. -
STOL as a Community Air
Transportation System’' is
designed for. all as an
opportunity for non-aviation
people to see and learn at first
hand the possibilities of V-STOL
in terms they can understand,
aid to give them access to

- acknowledged experts in the

field, from Canada and the rest
of the V-STOL world,

It - is the Abbotsford
Internation Air Show Society's
hope that the forum -will prove

useful and interesting to all who

attend,

CENTENNIAL MEMO .

Hill’s Bar, near Yale, was_a -
‘rich Fraser,
producer:
- estimated to have. yielded $2
‘million. since its discovery in
1858. The bar is less than.a half
a'square mile in area and: many
claims had only a. 26-fool
_ frontage.

River
In 1875

gold
‘it was

Engagement |

Mr; and Mrs. Ernest Anweilell
announce the engagement.
their eldest daughter Audre
Adele {o Karl Heintz Straus
son of Mrs. Bertha Strauss ani
the late Mr. Gustav: Strauss: «:
Gronau, West Faien, Germany,
The. wedding. will take place o
Saturday, October 9, 1971 alt
Christ Lutheran Chureh i
Terrace. ° ’

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