Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being secured by a man on a ladder at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts the top of Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole as it was raised at an event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole being lifted by ropes and people with logs at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.
Power lines, vehicles, and forest visible in background.
Buildings and power lines in background.
Neighbourhood, forest, and hills in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “wearing Rod Robinson’s leather coat at the raising of Eli Gosnell’s great pole at Aiyansh, Nov./78”
Power poles and buildings visible in background.
Buildings and forest in background.
Photograph depicts elders, chiefs, and councillors outside the new Kispiox Cultural Building while a totem pole was raised at the official opening of the facility. Photograph was taken on Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts the Queen Charlotte Islands museum site overlooking Skidegate Inlet and next to a gravel beach.
Drawing of floor plans for Native Centre in Terrace B.C. Three sketches depict lower floor plan, main floor plan, and upper floor plan.
Photograph depicts people looking at longhouses at totem poles at 'Ksan, BC.
File consists of correspondence, publications, press releases, newspaper clippings, guidelines, and speeches. Includes:
- Copy of Nisga’a Nation 35th Annual Convention, Convention Book
- Publication: “Nisga’a: People of the Mighty River”
- Computer printout: “Nisga’a, British Columbia and Canada sign Agreement-in-Principle, February 15, 1996
- Nisga’a Treaty Negotiations, Agreement-in-Principle in Brief
- Chronology of events leading to an Agreement-in-Principle with the Nisga’a Tribal Council
- Nisga’a, British Columbia and Canada release historic Agreement-in-Principle
- Lock-up Guidelines, Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle
- Speaking notes for the Honourable Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, February 15, 1996
- Publication: Treaty No.8 Made June 21, 1899 and Adhesions, Reports, etc
- Publication: Treaty No.11 (June 27, 1921) and Adhesion (July 17, 1922) with Reports, etc.
- Publication: Indian Act, September, 1989
- Handwritten note: “The view only changes for the land (?)”
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Hon. Ronald A. Irwin re: thank you for support of Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, April 18, 1996
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Prime Minister Jean Chrétien re: thank you for support of Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, April 15, 1996
- Faxed letter to Ms. Marjorie Percival, Land Claims Secretary, Nisga’a Tribal Council, from Iona Campagnolo re: Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony and 39th Annual Convention, March 19, 1996
- Faxed letter to Chief Harry Nyce, Nisga’a Tribal Council, from Iona Campagnolo re: regrets for Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony, March 18, 1996
- Faxed letter to Iona Campagnolo from to Ms. Marjorie Percival, Land Claims Secretary, Nisga’a Tribal Council, re: Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony and 39th Annual Convention, March 18, 1996
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Paulette Francoeur, Head, Correspondence Unit, Office of the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, re: letter of acknowledgement, February 23, 1996
- Faxed letter to Ms. Megan Olesky, Federal Treaty Negotiation Office, from Iona Campagnolo re: event attendance, February 14, 1996
- Handwritten notes re: Nisga’a
- Handwritten notes re: First Nations Summit and Nisga’a
- Faxed letter to Iona Campagnolo from Doreen Mullings, Executive Director, Federal Treaty Negotiation Office and Joy Illington, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs re: Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle and News Conference Invitation, February 14, 1996
- Fax to Iona Campagnolo re: “Talking points on the Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle”, February 15, 1996
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Honourable Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: Nisga’a treaty negotiations, October 20, 1995
- Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from Iona Campagnolo re: appreciation of government in support of Nisga’a treaty negotiations, February 12, 1996
- Letter to John Watson, Regional Director General, Indian Affairs and Northern Development from Iona Campagnolo re: thank you for briefing on Nisga’a Agreement, October 1, 1997
- Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from Iona Campagnolo re: commendation of John Watson, and the Nisga’a people towards determining an Agreement, October 1, 1997
- Letter to Hon. Jane Stewart, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development from Iona Campagnolo re: commendation of her leadership, October 1, 1997
- Newspaper clippings:
- “Guujaaw: A man of his people” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Found Haida tattoo kit comes to light” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “A culture rises again” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Balance of power” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Voices of Haida Gwaii” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Selling a philosophy of peace in Indian Country” The Globe and Mail, March 2, 1996
- Letters to the Editor, The Globe and Mail, March 2, 1996
- “Caution surrounds Nisga’a signing” The Globe and Mail, March 22, 1996
- “At last! A settlement in native land claims” Times Colonist, February 25, 1996
- “The Nisga’a agreement: a great deal or a great steal?” The Globe and Mail, March 5, 1996
- “Natives denied land-claims justice” Times Colonist, September 15, 1990
- “B.C. land-claim deal sails into storm” The Globe and Mail, February 16, 1996
- “Beyond the thunder of dissent lies the fire of revolution” The Vancouver Sun (undated)
- “The fallout will be far-reaching from the B.C. ruling on aboriginal rights” The Globe and Mail (undated)
- “Judge the Nisga’a deal on its practical merits” The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1996
- “The B.C. government must deal in good faith with the Nisga’a” The Globe and Mail, 1995
- “Nisga’a negotiate an exemplary land-claim agreement in principle” The Globe and Mail, (undated)
- “Native goals more in harmony with populist mood” (unidentified)
- “No quick fixes expected from Nisga’a settlement” The Globe and Mail, March 25, 1996
- “Nisga’a deal an honourable settlement” The Globe and Mail, February 24, 1996
- “Lessons from the Nisga’a” Simon Fraser News, March 7, 1996
Photograph depicts elders, chiefs, and councillors outside the new Kispiox Cultural Building following the pole-raising at the official opening of the facility. Photograph was taken on Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo speaking with George Brown of Burns Lake Community Development Corporation in Burns Lake while being filmed by director Paul Rockett. Unknown man in centre.
Photograph depicts Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo speaking with George Brown of Burns Lake Community Development Corporation in Burns Lake while being filmed by director Paul Rockett.
Photograph depicts Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo speaking with George Brown of Burns Lake Community Development Corporation in Burns Lake while being filmed by director Paul Rockett. Unknown man in centre.
Photograph depicts Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo speaking with George Brown of Burns Lake Community Development Corporation in Burns Lake.
Photograph of three unidentified people, Joe Daniels, J.B. [?], Iona Campagnolo, and an unidentified man sitting at a table (see also item 2009.6.1.98).
Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Oct 16/74,” and “Kitwanga, BC, November 11th/74 tour”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Left to Right: Leonard Bright; Joe Daniels (chief) J.B.; I.C., Richard Morgan; Howard Morgan, Kitwanga, B.C., November 11/74 tour”.
Series consists of Roots & Wings theatre programs, miscellaneous correspondence, publications, press releases, newspaper clippings, guidelines and speeches pertaining to the Nisga’a Agreement in Principle (1995-1997); and a copy of the British Columbia Treaty Negotiations Referendum issued by Premier Campbell in 2002.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “North Coast District Council”.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Mr. V, Mrs. Solomon Doolan, Kincolith”.
Large carved wooden doors(?) in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “with Nisga’a Chiefs”.
Carved masks and bench can be seen against wall in background.
Two unidentified men and an unidentified woman look on. Bottles of champagne and baking can be seen in foreground, and carved masks hang on wall in background.
An unidentified woman and man look on. Bottles of champagne and baking can be seen in foreground, and carved masks hang on wall in background.
Framed button blanket, framed photographs of Northern B.C., a potted plant, and a red couch visible in background.
Handwritten notation attached to photo backing reads: “Spt. Minister Office”.
Buildings and power lines cross midground, mountains stand in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Kispiox with Hugh Faulkner”.
Photograph depicts men standing beside Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole at a raising event in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts men on stage with a woman, possibly Ada Yovanovich or Blanche MacDonald, wearing button blankets at an event in Skidegate.
Photograph depicts a man playing a guitar on stage at a Glen Vowell potluck.
Photograph depicts a man playing a guitar on stage at a Glen Vowell potluck.
Photograph depicts a man with a guitar and a woman with a drum on stage at a Glen Vowell potluck.
Photograph depicts an unknown man standing on stage at a Glen Vowell Potluck after the key presentation.
Photograph depicts a man in a crowd looking at the top portion of Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole at a raising event in New Aiyansh.
Photograph depicts an unknown man gesturing toward the food at a Glen Vowell potluck.
Photograph taken during Michaëlle Jean’s visit to Government House, Victoria, B.C.; see also items 2009.6.1.616 - 2009.6.1.625.