Katzie

With Katzie or Katzie First Nation, a Canadian First Nation is called in British Columbia, who lived in Pitt Meadows and Barnston on Iceland and on Yorkson Creek in Langley. They speak the Downriver dialect of Halkomelem, a language that belongs to the Salish language family. The traditional territory of the Katzie 531 ( March 2013 ) ranges from the Fraser River to the catchment area of ​​Pitt Lake including some areas on the Alouette.

Although she to Sto: Lo - group include, they lead their country negotiations independently with British Columbia and are not the Sto: Lo Nation Tribal Council to.

History

Early History

The historiography of Katzie is in the exceptional situation to have an early document. Peter Pierre gave in 1936 at the age of 75 years, the ethnologist Diamond Jenness interviews that have been published under the title The faith of a Coast Salish Indian, 1955. He was a medicine man and was just eight selected and taught to deliver the oral tradition. His son Simon translated these stories, later added his own and worked there together with the anthropologist Wayne Suttles. These traditions were published together.

The Katzie nation originally consisted of five groups, each having a chief. These chiefs were Oe'lecten (strain at Pitt Lake ), Swaneset (Sheridan Hill ), Xwoe'pecten (Port Hammond ) - his tribe sat later than Kwantlen from - Smakwec at Point Roberts in Washington - his people, the Nicomek, was the victim of one of the early smallpox epidemics - and C'simlenexw at Point Grey - his descendants were the Musqueam. Today's Katzie lead mainly be attributed to the strains of the chiefs Oe'lecten and Swaneset.

The Katzie lived in ten villages, and may already be described around 1600 BC as farmers. They led back to their Creator Khaals, which divided the tribe into five groups and settled in their traditional dwellings. He endowed each strain with different powers. For example Oe'lecten was equipped with the seasons and the rainbow, Smakwec received power over the subterranean channels between Point Roberts to the Pitt Lake, Sechelt and other places. C'simlenexw received power over the Swayxway mask.

European contacts

Contract negotiations and current situation

2000 signed the Katzie and the provincial government an agreement in principle under the BC Treaty Process, in which the Katzie had occurred in 1994.

When the Golden Ears Bridge should be built on Katzie area, more precisely next to Barnston Iceland between Surrey and Maple Ridge, the tribe signed with Translink in September 2004, an agreement, which recognized the mutual obligations. Construction began in early 2007 and should be completed in late 2008 or 2009. At the opposite end of the island is the Teal -Jones Group Surrey mill, which was built for the processing of wood.

At the same time existing for decades alliance between environmentalists and Indians is beginning to crack. The latter sell rights to harvest timber or lumber itself from forest areas (2005 69.000 cubic meters ), since they see opportunities to participate more strongly in mind. But this is also among the tribes fiercely disputed.

The riparian nations of the Fraser River salmon live for thousands of years. But In 2007, instead of the expected 6.3 million Sockeye ( a species of salmon ) only 1.6 million. The government has now a prohibition of fishing, this time also adopted for the First Nations.

Reserves

The five reserves in the Katzie are located in New Westminster District, namely on the Fraser River at Port Hammond, on the south coast of Iceland Barnston, and the point where the Pitt River emerges from the Pitt Lake. Katzie 1 and 2 Katzie the Fraser River in this case comprise 44.1 and 23.1 ha The reserve on Barnston Iceland comprises 54.6 hectares, the largest reserve of 218.5 ha is located on Pitt Lake, the smallest with 0.4 ha is a cemetery ( Pitt Lake 4, or Graveyard 5). All reservations include well together 340 ha in March 2013 306 Katzie lived in the reserve, 7 in which other tribes and 218 outside the reserves. It was registered as an Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act, a total of 531 Katzie.