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- Title: Joe Elliot ni’ q’eptus kwthu syuw’en’ | Joe Elliot Collects History
- Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Description: Band historian, Joe Elliot, holding a large book and pointing out a letter from James Douglas.
(Published 09 October 1963).
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- Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
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- Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:
Joe Elliot ni’ q’eptus kwthu syuw’en’ | Joe Elliot Collects History
- ni’ yuhw tthu s’eluhw tst Joe Elliot nilh ni’ hwu yu le’lum’utus tthu pipu tun’ni’ ’u tthu Douglas Treaty ’u kw’un’a wulh hith.
This must be our elder Joe Elliot who is taking note of a document from the Douglas Treaty from long ago. - ni’ q’eptus tthu syuw’en’[s] tthu s’ul’eluhw tst kw’ ni’ syuth ’u kw’un’a wulh hith.
He’s collecting our elders’ history and the legends of long ago.
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- Time period or Date: 1963
- Theme(s): People, ,
- Location: TBD
- Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
- Photographer credit: Leader Staff Photo
- Individuals identified: Joe Elliot
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This was a story published in: the the Cowichan Leader, 09 October 1963.
Joe Eliott, Cowichan Band historian, puts his finger on a pertinent paragraph in a letter written by Gov. James Douglas to the colonial secretary in 1859 “…. in districts where the white population is small, and the land unproductive, the Indians may be left almost wholly to their own resources, and, as a joint means of earning their livelihood to pursue, unmolested, their favorite calling of fishermen and hunters.” Mr. Elliott believes this statement indicates that our native Indians may hunt and fish any time over unoccupied land, regardless of the white man’s regulations.
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