T'sou-ke Nation
The T'sou - ke - ke First Nation or T'sou is a Canadian First Nations, and was formerly under the name of Sooke ( pron. souk ) known. They belong to the Salish language family and live on Vancouver Iceland, off the west coast of Canada. Because they live on the Juan de Fuca Strait, which separates the south to mainland Washington and Vancouver Island, this subgroup is also called Northern Straits Salish, a group that belongs culturally to the coastal Salish.
The name " Sook " or " Soke " is derived from the Stickleback Fish (probably three-spined stickleback ), who lives in Sooke Basin. The town of Sooke is located approximately 35 km west of Victoria.
The out of 221 registered members (August 2009) existing ordinary member of the Te'Mexw Treaty Association, including the Songhees, Malahat, Beecher Bay and Nanoose First Nations belong. They belong to the tribes who have completed around 1850 contracts with the government ( Douglas Treaties ), which have been taken over by Canada.
History
The Spanish commander of the sloop Princesa Real, Manuel Quimper, was launched in June 1790 at the Sooke Harbour land for Spain and named it after the Spanish viceroy " Puerta de Revilla Gigedo ". But Britain sat 1794 against Spain by, but renounced the settlement.
Missionaries have stayed here in the 1830s, initially Methodists, then Catholics. 1838 married a Jean Baptiste Brulé in Fort Victoria a Sooke woman named Marguerite. In 1977, the 100 -year-old T'sou - ke- wife Agnes George was interviewed who could remember that her mother Marguerite was known. The family had moved together with their children to Sooke. Marguerite Brulé appears with an age of 90 years even in the census of 1881. Brûlés The were not the only family of French origin, who had come by the Hudson 's Bay Company ( HBC) to Sooke.
To 1848, the Cowichan, Klallam and Ditidaht have the T'sou - ke almost destroyed.
Contracts and reserves
Founded by the proximity to Victoria in 1843 and there set the tone HBC there was an intensification of trade. 1850 received the T'sou - ke one of the 14 Douglas Treaties, which took them to 48 pounds, 6 shillings and 8 pence their country. 1877 the tribe were assigned today's reserves. 1881 included the " Sooke " only 32 people in 8 families.
When the McKenna - McBride Commission in 1913, the reserves of British Columbia visited, she suggested that the reserves of Sooke Tribe "," No. 1 Sooke, 65.00 acres; No. 2- Sooke, * 101.00 acres; No. 3- Graveyard, ** 0:03 acres, and No. 4- Graveyard, 0.95 acres. Should " remain, but was No.3, a small cemetery, has been lost by erosion.
Legal force received by the Commission until 1923 proposals.
Since 1998, the strain is a member of the Inter Tribal Health Authority, a health organization on its own. On 9 July 2007 it has launched to be an Aboriginal Health Data Centre, recorded and evaluated in the clinical data.
In June 2006, Chief Rose Dumont sued the Canadian government before the Supreme Court of British Columbia on compliance with the Treaty of 1850 with a view of the fishing rights. There it was, they could fish under Hergabe their country continue as they were used to. The management derives from quantity limits for decades, although the Indians of the commercial fishing is allowed again. When the Mi'kmaq in eastern Canada in 2000 tried by ostentatious fishing enforce their contractually guaranteed fishing rights, the T'sou - ke publicly opened for salmon fishing to support them.
1995 began efforts that had been completely cut down to a few trees Sooke Hills to put under protection. The now old trees should help to reduce the flooding of recent decades. In the years 2002 to 2004, the tribe led by an appropriate management plan.
Current Situation
The tribe was in August 2009 from 221 members, of whom 129 lived on the reserve, 91 outside the reserve, a woman lives in another reserve.
In November 2007, Western Forest Products was trying to take out from the tree license in the province previously used system 28,000 ha of land. This includes the land T'sou - ke that were not asked. Investors will be looking within the fast-growing Victoria to land that can be privatized. Since the saw mills have been closed in the south in recent years, the wood was exported directly to the United States.
Reserves
The two reserves T'sou - ke - ke T'sou 1 and 2 are located in the Sooke District. The former comprises 26.3 ha and is located on the left bank of the Sooke River near the mouth of the Sooke Harbour, the latter comprises 40.9 ha and is located on the Sooke Bay.