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Item is a audio interview recorded by Bridget Moran with Justa Monk.

Audiocassette Summary

00’ 10” Moran is asking Justa about how he is feeling because he had a major heart attack. He talks about recovering from his attack in a week.

02’ 15” Moran asks Justa about what he thinks about the Gustafson Lake situation. He says he predicted it because the government has not been serious enough in negotiations for land claims. He does not believe in militant reactions and wants peaceful negotiations.

04’ 54” Moran asks Justa about what helped him get out of the ‘trench’ he was in after murdering his brother. He was able to carry on partly because he was forgiven by his family and the elders. He says the elders were the people who convinced him to plan for his future. He took their advice seriously, hence why he took on leadership roles.

07’ 15” Justa talks about taking a group of students to meet Gino (?), a hockey player. He says he wants to make things better for the young people because of alcohol and drugs, so believed the trip helped the students he took on the trip.

13’ 34” End of tape.

File consists of a Teacher's Guide for Justa.

File consists of 68 photographs and newspaper clippings. The newspaper clippings include "Bravo" (Time Colonist, Dec. 1, 1996) and "Bridget looks back into the eye of storm" (The Citizen, Feb. 21, 1983). The photographs consist of:

• [Entrance to] The Sanatorium - Fort Qu'Appelle, July 6, 1979
• [Trades Shop at] The Sanatorium - Fort Qu'Appelle, July 6, 1979
• Bridget Moran standing beside a log house [Mary John's house?]
• Mary John, portrait - profile
• Bridget Moran and Mary John with their arms on each others shoulders
• Mary John wearing a blanket (blue with red caribou on back)
• Mary John, unidentified woman (Mary John's daughter?) and Bridget Moran in Mary's home
• Justa Monk, and Bridget Moran side by side in a bookstore
• Bridget Moran and Mary John in embrace [photo courtesy of The Citizen newspaper]
• Dinner party featuring Bridget and seven unidentified woman sitting around a table
• Bridget Moran standing beside a car
• Bridget Moran standing in front of Metlakatla Fire Department sign
• Bridget Moran standing in front of Metlakatla Lake (?)
• Unidentified woman standing in front of Metlakatla Fire Department sign
• Unidentified woman standing in front of Alaska distance signage
• Bridget Moran standing outside of St. Paul's Anglican Church Learning Centre
• View of two buildings in midground and large mountain range in background
• View of boats tied at a dock on a lack with a mountain range in the background
• Bridget Moran working on her computer
• Bridget Moran on a small boat, a slight wake can be seen in the water in the background
• View of village in background, lake in foreground
• View of lake and mountains in background
• Dog beside Bulkley River waterfall and traditional fishing territory in Moricetown Canyon
• Bridget Moran sitting on bench beside Bulkley River waterfall and "Montier Booth" in Moricetown Canyon
• Nisga'a Government Administrative Building
• Bridget Moran and unidentified man standing outside Nisga'a Government Administrative Building
• Bridget and two friends having lunch in Newton
• Two women standing in a mall
• Three women posing together for photo
• Landscape perspective featuring cross country skiing trails and farm land
• Village on a bay
• Bridget Moran standing beside a decorative fruit platter featuring a carved elephant
• River and power lines
• Coloured map of Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Park
• Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Park (?)
• Bridget Moran at beginning of suspension bridge featuring a sign reading "Use of bridge at your own risk" Gitwinksihlkw Band Council
• Sign: "Moricetown Canyon Rules"
• Moricetown Canyon featuring Bulkley River waterfall and fishing territory
• Moricetown Canyon featuring Bulkley River waterfall and fishing territory
• Moricetown Canyon featuring Bulkley River waterfall and fishing territory
• Bridget Moran and unidentified man standing in front of new building
• Unidentified [new] building
• Bridget Moran coming out of Long House entrance
• Farmland landscape
• Justa Monk autographing Justa: a First Nations Leader at a book signing at Mosquito Books, Prince George
• Justa Monk and Bridget Moran autographing Justa: a First Nations Leader at a book signing at Mosquito Books, Prince George
• Justa Monk and Bridget Moran autographing Justa: a First Nations Leader at a book signing, Elders in background
• Justa Monk and Bridget Moran at a Justa: a First Nations Leader book signing at Mosquito Books, Prince George
• Justa Monk and Bridget Moran autographing Justa: a First Nations Leader at a book signing at Mosquito Books, Prince George, Paul Ramsay in background
• Bridget Moran at Mosquito Books, Prince George
• Justa Monk and Bridget Moran at a book signing at Mosquito Books, Prince George
• Justa Monk and Bridget Moran autographing Justa: a First Nations Leader at a book signing, Elder in background
• Justa Monk and Bridget Moran autographing Justa: a First Nations Leader at a book signing, Elder in background
• Bridget Moran and a group of three unidentified women
• Bridget Moran with a First Nations button blanket featuring thunderbird and killer whale designs
• Bridget Moran with a First Nations button blanket featuring killer whale design
• Bridget Moran outdoor portrait
• Bridget Moran indoor portrait
• Bridget Moran balcony portrait
• Justa Monk and Premier Mike Harcourt
• Bridget Moran in UNBC regalia for receipt of Honourary Law Degree (1995)
• Mary John and Bridget Moran at a book signing for Stoney Creek Woman
• Bridget Moran autographing Judgement at Stoney Creek at a book signing
• Bridget Moran with a First Nations button blanket featuring thunderbird, wolf and killer whale designs
• Mary John receiving the Order of Canada (1997) for outstanding service to her community
• Bridget Moran with Mike Harcourt, both wearing cowboy hats (colour laser copy)
• Mary John and Bridget Moran at a book signing for Stoney Creek Woman
• Mary John and Bridget Moran at a book signing for Stoney Creek Woman
• 27 colour negatives featuring a trip to Metlakatla and Moricetown
• Envelope containing 15 duplicate photographs
• 25 colour negatives featuring Justa book signing event at Mosquito Books.

File consists of:

• Photocopy of 1969 M.A. thesis "And Then We Prayed Again: Carrier Women, Colonialism and Mission Schools" by Jo-Anne Fiske, used as background material for Stoney Creek Woman
• Interviews telling Carrier histories [RESTRICTED]

File consists of a letter re: 1998 Order of British Columbia Recipients from Dagmar Beiman, Coordinator Honours and Awards Secretariat to Bridget Moran (May 11, 1998), a letter from Daniel Birkenbach to Bridget Moran re: a paper he wrote (Aug. 2, 1996), and a copy of paper written by Daniel Birkenbach: "Canada - Life and Development of the Canadian Indians (past and present)."

File consists of:

• Liberating Our Children, Liberating Our Nations. Report of the Aboriginal Committee, Community Panel, Family and Children's Services Legislation Review in British Columbia, October 1992. Includes handwritten note from Dianne de Chamelan (?) to Bridget Moran and the following photocopies pages from this publication: 5-23 and 123-125.
• Addressed envelope from R. [Roseanne?] Moran to Bridget Moran containing copy of "Address from the Bar of the House" - Joe Gosnell speaking to the Nisga'a Treaty
• "The Rights of the Metis in British Columbia" (revised March 1998) published by Native Programs, Legal Services Society.
• Copy of article: "Native Indians seek resolution over issue of adopted children" by Rick Ouston for the Vancouver Sun, reprinted in Today's News (July 9, 1997)
• Newspaper clipping from The Province (Feb. 4, 1998) Pamphlet: T8TA [Treaty 8 Tribal Association] Education Department
• "Treaty 8 Tribal Association Member Community Profiles Including: 1. A Brief history of First Nation Communities in Northeastern B.C." Prepared by Kathlean Fitpatrick Research Services fro T8TA, Treaty and Aboriginal Rights Research Program, Sept. 1997.
• Fax from Lucette Kirbach to LSS Board of Directors (incl. Bridget Moran) re: Delgam Uukw (June 25, 1998)
• "A guide to Aboriginal organizations and services in British Columbia"
• "A Review of legal services to Aboriginal people in British Columbia" by Marion R. Buller (Feb. 7, 1994)
• Northeast Distribution [contact] List
• Catalogue: Books about First Nations and Aboriginal Peoples from Canadian Publishers
• "Fishing - Aboriginal Rights in British Columbia" (revised 1998) published by Native Programs, Legal Services Society.
• Photocopy of article "Why Canada has a moral obligation to abused Indians" by Grand Chief Edward John (The Vancouver Sun, April 3, 1996).

File consists of article by The Free Press: "New Judgement on old book" by Frank Peebles, Oct. 4, 1998 and a reprint order form for customers of Arsenal Pulp Press.

File consists of Misc. typewritten notes under the following titles: the name "Nulki Lake," indian medicine, alcohol on reserve, housing on reserve, T.B. on reserve, indian agent, the Watchmen, the Church, alcohol, and families on Stoney Creek; typewritten notes under the following titles: early life, ancestors, Mary's childhood (racism), Mary's childhood (menstruation), Mary's childhood (the 1918 Flu), Mary's childhood (on the trapline), Mary's childhood (the trapline), Mary's childhood (her first coat), Mary's childhood (Christmas), and Mary's childhood (camping out and going to a Potlach); typewritten notes under the following titles: Mary's school days, childbirth, school life of Mary's kids, Mary's marriage, Lazarre's mother, marriage - housing, marriage - children, marriage - shopping in town, marriage - finances, marriage - work, work - depression, Indian Agent, marriage - hard work, camping, Lazarre's cabin at Wedgewood, doing hides, social life, whites, survival, Lazarre's family, Indian Agent and department of Indian Affairs, politics on reserve, citizen of the year, Catholic school, hides, potlach, siblings, net fishing, and changes; Lejac School: Thesis "And Then We Prayed" (pages 1 - 9) and questions for Mary.

File consists of Yinka Dene [Language Institute]: Letter to Brian Lam, Arsenal Pulp Press from Bridget Moran re: inclusion of excerpts from Stoney Creek Woman into a publication by the Yinka Dene Language Institute entitled "Mary Goes to Lejac" (Feb. 7, 1998), Activity Report to Yinka Dene Board of Directors, and Yinka Dene Language Institute's Board of Director's Meeting Board Kit (Feb. 6, 1998).

Series consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, newsletters, advertisements, contracts, notebooks, audiocassettes of oral interviews and readings, transcripts, book launch announcements, front cover mock-ups, edited drafts, manuscripts, fact sheets, poems, catalogues, bookmarks, skits, conference events programme, poster, grant applications and related correspondence, a wooden placard, handwritten notes, book reviews, inquest reports, background material, VHS recordings of classroom talks given by Bridget Moran, Mary John and Justa Monk re: her publications, and ephemera. This series contains material from all five of her publications:

1. (1988) Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
2. (1990) Judgment at Stoney Creek. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press
3. (1992) A Little Rebellion. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
4. (1994) Justa: A First Nations Leader. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
5. (1996) Prince George Remembered. Prince George, British Columbia: Moran Publishing.
   This series also consists of, but is not limited to, a number of unpublished manuscripts and drafts and/or writing contest submissions also written by Bridget Moran, such as:
   • "Mary and Me" (ca. 1998)
   • "Where Winds Come Sweet" (ca. 1981)
   • "The Horizontal Land" (ca. 1992)
   • "The Summer of '81"
   • "The Relief Cheque" (ca. 1998)
   • "The Case of the Box of Matches" (ca. 1987)
   • "Unholy Deadlock" (ca. 1990)
   • "The Numbers Game"
   • "Reflections on Theme" (ca. 1967)
   • "Come Hell or High Water" (ca. 1976)
   • "Man Alive"
   • "The Deadbeat Mystique"
   • "Hell on Wheels"
   • "Backstairs at the Palace"
   • "James MacCallum" (ca. 1984)
   • "Hushaby, Baby" (ca. 1981)
   • "The Decline and Fall of Mr. Sullivan"
   • "Case History of a Gadfly"
   • "Welfare and the Good Life"
   • "Childhood Memories" (ca. 1976)
   • "The Three Musketeers" (ca. 1974-75)
   • "A Child's Christmas in Saskatchewan" (ca. 1979)
   • "Diary of Success Homecoming"
   • "My Old Flame" (ca. 1992)
   • "O Ye Dry Bones" (ca. 1996)
   • "Supper, Little Children" (ca. 1983).

File consists of one draft and one original copy of a full page advertisement featuring four books written by Bridget Moran: Stoney Creek Woman, Judgement at Stoney Creek, A Little Rebellion, and Justa: A First Nations Leader.

This fonds illustrates Bridget Moran’s careers as a writer, a social worker and a social activist primarily within the Prince George region of British Columbia. This fonds also contains records pertaining to her personal relationships with family and friends and her receipt of various honours and awards.

Types of records reflective of her career as a writer include: published articles and unpublished manuscripts, drafts and front cover mock-ups, correspondence with editors from Arsenal Pulp Press, grant applications, notebooks, background material, writer’s workshop invitations and overviews, photographs, oral history interviews and transcripts, and VHS recordings of classroom talks given by Bridget Moran, Mary John and Justa Monk re: her publications.

Types of records reflective of her career as a social worker and social activist include: annual reports, work journals, correspondence and published newspaper articles re: social policy, photographs, and general background material. Correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings highlight her personal relationships, while her receipt of honours and awards is demonstrated through copies of letters of recommendation, newspaper clippings, photographs, VHS recordings of award ceremonies, event itineraries, congratulatory correspondence, and invitations.

The Bridget Moran fonds has been divided into the following four series:

1. Published and Unpublished Materials
2. Career Related Materials
3. Personal Papers and Correspondence
4. Honours and Awards.