Saturna LTC Special Meeting Agenda
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Saturna Island Local Trust Committee Special Meeting Agenda Date:December 10, 2017 Time:2:00 pm Location:Saturna Island Community Hall 105 East Point Road, Saturna Island, BC Pages 1.CALL TO ORDER2:00 PM - 2:05 PM 2.APPROVAL OF AGENDA 3.BUSINESS ITEMS2:05 PM - 4:00 PM 3.1First Nations Relationship Building - Presentation2 - 31 3.1.1Deep History of 14,000 Years - and Community Input 3.1.2History of European Contact - and Community Input 3.1.3Making History: A Future - and Community Input 4.ADJOURNMENT4:00 PM - 4:00 PM 1 Part 1: DEEP HISTORY The Strait of Georgia Region Before European contact...the most populated region north of Mexico. 2 The Kelp Highway Nov. 2017 Science “Recent work along the Pacific coastlines of North and South America has revealed that these environments were settled early and continuously provided a rich diversity of subsistence options and technological resources for New World hunter-gatherers.” 3 14,000 Years Ago 2017: Triquet Village Site 1977: Olympic Peninsula 4 Ice-Free Zones of the West Coast 14,000 – 10,000 Years Ago 5 10,000 Years Ago: The Ice Retreats: Strait of Georgia 14,000 years ago, a slow moving river of ice flowed through the Fraser Valley and formed the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the body of water that separates Vancouver Island from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. 6 Shift in Diet 8000 Years Ago Sea Mammals: 14,000 – 8,000 Years Ago Fin Fish and Mariculture: 8,000 Years Ago - 200 years ago 7 4,000 – 8,000 Years Ago: Evolution of Sophisticated Culture 2011: A 4000 Year Old Noble Family of Sechelt 2016: A Currency of Beads 8 “The Most Dense Indigenous Population North of Mexico” •Richest biodiversity region •Permanent settlements •Complex/Concentrated linguistic diversity •Land Use Governance •Inter-Nation protocols •Sharing •Reciprocity •Caring for community •Periodic warfare for expanding resources 9 Part 1: DEEP HISTORY Discussion Questions 1.What would life have been like during the Ice Age (10- 13,000 years ago) on the islands? 2.What else would’ve changed when the diet changed to fin fish (8,000 years ago)? 3.Is it possible that this rich and sophisticated culture of manufacturing, currencies, complex trade could have gone back further than 5000 years (evidence at Sechelt)? 10 Part 2: HISTORY OF EUROPEAN CONTACT World Colonialism OF 1700 “Colonialism”: the extension of political control to new areas “Colonist”: a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there to colonize the area 11 Diseases Came BEFORE the First Europeans Indigenous traders first brought European diseases to the west coast. 1770: the first epidemics of the islands (only 247 years ago) 12 The Islands Were NOT Empty “The Greatest Death Toll from Disease in the World’s History” 1994: Cole Harris 1994: Rober
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