First Nations and Race Rocks

FIRST NATIONS and

THE RACE ROCKS AREA

The 13 MOONS of the Wsanec

Marine resources, formed a fundamental component of traditional life ways, and today still remain important to First Nations people.

The peoples of the Salish Sea recognized the close relationship between the land and the sea. They have witnessed first hand the impacts of development on the marine resources of the Strait of Georgia and Strait of Juan de Fuca. These impacts have directly and drastically altered their traditional life ways.


Interviews at RaceRocks in QuickTime Video with First Nations Elders on the Marine Resources used by the First Nations people of the Salish Sea.	The configuration of the rocks in several stone cairns at Race Rocks are suggestive of First Nations use of this area for Burial Mounds in the period AD 500.	At Race Rocks we have an old dugout canoe which provides the focus on the way of life experienced by the First Nations people who lived in the Coastal Areas of the Pacific North West.

"Recommendations on Race Rocks reserve to be in minister's hands by month's end" . by Rachel Goldsworthy in the Goldstream News Gazette, March 15, 2000	Coast Salish Council representative on the Race Rocks Advisory Board, Tom Sampson meets the federal and provincial ministers at the official designation of the MPA before singing an opening prayer. He addressed the gathering in the Lecture Theatre at Lester Pearson College, speaking about the importance of the new MPA to the First Nations people of the Salish Sea.	REPORT OF THE FIRST NATIONS CULTURAL HERITAGE IMPACT, ASSESSMENT AND CONSULTATION COMPONENT; BAMBERTON TOWN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ( see the section on marine resources)
	The First Nations of the North West Coast-- Coast Salish; Connections to the Environment, Involvement in Conservation. With a Case Study of ,First Nations involvement in the development of a Marine Protected Area off Vancouver Island .
(RACE ROCKS) Marine Protected Area designated on Sept 14,2000	THE FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE AND RACE ROCKS- from the Race Rocks Ecological Overview Workshop, April,1999.	Link to a site for the KLALLUM language, and a story by the late Thomas Charles of Beecher Bay (see note below)
		The word written in the Klallum language means "fast flowing water", the area around Race Rocks. The late Thomas Charles of Beecher Bay First Nations provided this name for us in March of 1999. It was transcribed from the word written out in Klallum by his wife Mrs.Tom Charles . This is a copy of the words she wrote out for us.
The Beecher Bay Burning Ceremony which gave the approval for the MPA process.

Sitemap

Location and Maps

Educational Resources Index

Contact

webmaster:
Garry Fletcher