Thursday, June 17, 2004 Programme

Gerald Amos (Haisla First Nation)
Conference Chairman's welcome and opening remarks

Drums of the Squamish Nation

Politics and Historical Dimensions

Arrival of the Gitxsan canoe in the territory of the Squamish Nation

Splitting the Sky, Mohawk Benevolent Society,
Secwepemc Territory, and
Hanna Kawas, Canada Palestine Association, Vancouver, BC.
Recovery of occupied land - the common cause

Roy Carlson , Department of Anthropology,
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
Salmon and Society: Archaeological Evidence for the
Pre-Contact Role of Salmon in B.C. Coastal Societies

Health break: Water and red alder bark tea of the Haisla people

Ken Mallowy (Sto:Lo First Nation) and Simon Lucas (Hesquiaht Tribe, Nuu-Chah-Nulth First Nation), BC Aboriginal Fisheries Commission, West Vancouver, BC
Changes in the traditional access to fishery resources and
its impact on the First nations people

Dana Lepofsky, Ken Lertzman and Doug Hallett, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC and
Rolf Matthewes, Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC.
Cultural responses to climate change in the Gulf of Georgia,
2400-1200 Before Present

Lunch break: Stal'atl'imc wind-dried and jarred salmon, and Chawathil ya:lu vegetable and Nuxalk pu7yaas tea

Traditional Food Supply

Gerald Amos, Haisla First Nation
Resurrection of the Grease Trail

Sharon Chow, Sierra Club BC
A Place called Home: Conservation of Natural Resources
for the Betterment of First Nations People

Victor Benson, Gitxsan First Nation
Pollution of food supply by mining and mineral processing activities on traditional territories

Kate Miller, Cowichan Tribes

"Reclaiming the traditional land for the development of supply of wild and domesticated plant foods for the people"

Health break: Water and soapberry drink of the Chawathil people

Workshops

Al Wong (FNNHC):
Improving the effectiveness of Community Health
Representatives (CHRs)

Cecile Lardon, University of Alaska, Fairbanks :
Research in indigenous communities - How to build respectful and collaborative partnerships for generating knowledge

Lois Provost-Turchetti (University of Toronto):
Blood, Memory and Ecology: Where mythtelling as
truthtelling nourishes body, and spirit, heart and soul

Cindy Hlus, Cowichan Nations:
Physical activities and community health

Conference Banquet

Traditional food of the South and North Coast people (including clams, oysters, geoduck, herring roe, sea cucumber, seaweed and alder-wood barbeque salmon)

Note: Shellfish was not served at the banquet because of red tide in the Strait of Georgia.