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The poems and stories written by Dolly McRae will bring you back in time and tell of moments in Dolly's life. Stories before she went to residential school, and stories of her family and friends. Dolly wrote of the time she spent in Australia and at the University of British Columbia working towards her Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology. The One Horned Goat story belongs to the family of Ghu'sen and has been handed down for many generations.
The poems and stories will bring you back in time and tell of moments in Dolly's life before she went to residential school, and stories of her family and friends. Dolly wrote of the time she spent in Kitwanga, British Columbia and then she tells of her life in Port Alberni.
This book, Cultural Empowerment within Museums and Anthropology, was designed to give some practical suggestions for an improved relationship between Museums and the First Peoples of North America.
Whose land is it? Yours or mine. Ever since European contact in Canada the question of Native land ownership has been a hot issue. This paper will recall early European contact in Canada, their move westward, the resistance to the encroachment and land appropriation by the Europeans. Dolly discusses the recent settlements of the Native land claims in Canada and United States. She talks of how the government would like 95%%%% of the territory that is rich in natural resources. Dolly tells other Natives not to sign treaties that will extinguish right to the land and that each band member should benefit from royalties from thje extraction of their natural resources.
As you read the information about Hereditary Chief Harry Mountain and see his masks and other art objects, suddenly stories and ownership will emerge. Harry needed all these art objects and more to perform the obligatory grand feasts to become Chief. You will discover information about the art objects that remain hidden while in storage in the museums.
There is a huge lack of knowledge about Native people in the public school system. Even our grandmothers, aunts and uncles abandoned their role as storytellers, because Sesame Street and Mr. Dressup appeared regularly on television. How are the young one to learn about Native history, culture or economics. If we are going to rely on non-Native's recorded history of the first occupants of North America.
Nicholas Perkins arrived in Virginia in 1641 and settled in Charles City County. He died in 1656. His son, Nicholas Perkins (ca. 1647- 1712) was a planter in Henrico County, Virginia. He and his wife, Sarah Childers, had eight children. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, and elsewhere.
Production credits for 35,000 films made between 1908-1920.
The Stone family originally of England and later in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. The earliest known progenitor of the Stone family is William Stone de Twiste, born ca. 1490 in Parish of Twiston, Lancashire, England. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Bradley. Their son, Richard (1540-1606), and his wife, Isabel Girdier (b. 1553), daughter of John Girdier of Carr House had nine children. Their third son, Thomas born 1580, was baptized in Parish of Croston. He and his wife Elizabeth Lufkyn had four sons and two daughters. Son, George, born 1597 in London, England came to Jamestown in 1620 with his three brothers all young men. He is the founder of the Stone name in Vir...