Online archive first step in returning artifacts to northern BC First Nations – Vancouver Is Awesome

Artifacts being repatriated to the Dane-zaa or Beaver people, with online archive created by Simon Fraser University and the Tse’k’wa Heritage Society.

Fifty years of archaeological knowledge is being repatriated to the Dane-zaa or Beaver people in northern B.C., with a new digital archive created in partnership with Simon Fraser University and the Tse’k’wa Heritage Society.

The Charlie Lake Cave, north of Fort St. John, is a national historic site that has been an Indigenous gathering place for more than 12,000 years, a sacred and spiritual place for the stakeholder First Nations of Doig River, Prophet River and West Moberly, with their ancestors first using the site to hold ceremonies.

Excavations were undertaken in 1974, 1983, 1990, and 1991, led by SFU’s Knut Fladmark and Jon Driver, unearthing a wealth of archeological and cultural knowledge.

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