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- Title: hwuhwilmuhw ’u’la’ulh ’u tthu float | Duncan Parade Float
- Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Description: Float for the Duncan Parade in June, 1955. A truck decorated in blankets and banners featuring an eagle statue and many people, including children, in traditional outfits on the float.
hwuhwilmuhw knowledge
- Speaker/Story Teller: Sti’tuma’t | Ruby Peter (Kwa’mutsun Elder)
- Date of recording:
- Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:
hwuhwilmuhw ’u’la’ulh ’u tthu float | Duncan Parade Float
- sxaatth’ustun ’i ’utl’ Duncan.
This picture is in Duncan. - ya.a.ath ’uw’ ’eey’ tthu parade ’i ’utl’ Duncan ’u tthu tum’kw’e’lus ni’ ’u tthu July, July lst.
There was always a parade in Duncan in the summer, around July lst. - ’i’ ’eey’ tthu parade sis ’uw’ q’a’thut tthu hwulmuhw.
They would have a parade and the native people joined them. - ’i’ ’e’ut sxuxil’ tthu ’ula’ulh ’u tthu thi tluk tthu hwuhwilmuhw.
And the caption says that there native people on a truck. - sxuxil’stum’ kwus ’uw’ hwun’a’ ’ul’ tetsul tthu hwunitum’ ni’ ’utl’ Cowichan Bay.
And the sign says the year the white people arrived at Cowichan Bay. - ni’ ’u kwthu ’apun ’i’ kw’ te’tsus lhq’utssulhshe’ sil’anum kwus wulh hwu’i ’utl’ Cowichan Bay.
1850 is when they first arrived Cowichan Bay. - suw’ ’ula’ulh tthu hwuhwilmuhw yu q’lhan’tus na’nuts’a’ ’e’ut ha’kwush tthu shhw’iyumous.
The one on the front end is wearing a mask. - ’i’ tthu stl’i’tl’qulh ni’ ’u tthu slhe’ultuhw ha’kwushus tthu stl’qeen yasa’qw, st’i’am’ tthu kwutsmin
And the child that on the roof is wearing a feather bonnet and wearing deer hoof rattlers (on his ankles). - tl’uw’ yu ni’ tthu yu speputh tthu swuqw’a’lh ’u tthu s’a’qsuns tthu snuhwulh, tthu tluk,
There was also a mountain goat wool blanket that is spread on the hood of the truck. - lhq’utsselu ’i ’u tu’i ’ile’uq.
There are five people at the back of the truck. - st’e ’uw’ ’iis yu ’i t’it’ulum’.
And it looks like they were singing. - na’nuts’a’ tthu… tsxthum.
One of them had a drum. - ’i’ na’nuts’a’ tthu kwune’t tthu sq’umul’.
Another one had a paddle. - ’i’ nilh kwus ’uw’ hwun’a’ tetsul tthu hwunitum’, tetsul ’utl’ Cowichan Bay.
And this is showing when the white people first came at Cowichan Bay. - ’i’ ’e’ut yu ’i ’u tthu q’lhan tthu sxt’ekw’, suw’ thunderbird ’i’ tthu qwunus.
And at the front of the truck there was a totem pole of thunderbird and whale. - ’i’ nilh kwus hwun’a’ tetsul tthu quw’utsun’ ’i’ ’uw’ wulh hi.i.ith ’i’ tthu mustimuhw ’i ’u tun’a quw’utsun’.
And this represents when the first people got to Cowichan which was long ago. - ’i’ ni’ wulh hay ’ul’ ’uw’ yuw’en’ nilh ’uw’ shhwunum’s tthu s’eluhws kwusulh wulh lhul’lhul’q tun’a tumuhw.
It was told by the elders and they talked about the time when the floods came. - nilh shte’s kws hiths kws ’is tun’a hwulmuhw mustimuhw.
That’s how far back the people of Cowichan people. - ’i’ st’e ’uw’ ’iis yu le’lum’stun’uq kwus ’uw’ ’aantus tthu hwunitum’ kws m’is tetsul, kwus m’i hwun’a’ tetsul.
And here it is showing they let the white people come into our territory, showing their first arrival. - ’e’ut ’i st’e ’u tu’i sxuxil’
And this is what is written there. - ni’ hay. hay ch q’a’.
The end. Thank you.
Key information
- Time period or Date: 1955
- Theme(s): Community Celebrations, Clothing and Ceremonial Dress, Sharing Indigenous Perspectives
- Location: Corner of Kenneth and Government or Jubilee at Duncan
- Source info (type – name): Museum — Cowichan Valley Museum & Archives
- Photographer credit: Alfred Flett
- Individuals identified: Johnny George (standing on right)
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