Adamslakeband.org Website Review

Adams Lake Indian Band 6453 Hillcrest RoadChase, British ColumbiaV0E 1M0 Call: 1250-679-8841 The Secwepemc people have lived in this territory for thousands of years.  Archaeological evidence in fact shows at least nine thousand (9,000) years of occupancy along the lakes and river areas. The remains of pit houses not far from our current reserves leaves us with Our Elders tell us we have lived here since time immemorial.  We lived based on an economy of resource extraction, including fishing, hunting, trapping and berry gathering; our ancestors prospered, grew and grew from these lands for thousands of years.  The waterways and networks of trails enabled vast travel that was tied to the seasonal cycles.  Similarly, we developed intricate social and political The oral traditions continue to be pas*ed down from generation to generation through stories, crafts and ways of life. Waves of traders, missionaries, colonial administrators had a significant impact on our traditions and ways of life by influencing and indeed, outlawing many of our ways. Extensive extraction, at first focusing on beaver pelts and wildlife, then on forestry and eventually on minerals, has In spite of the over extraction, we have persisted and cared for our resources. By mid-19th century, the small pox epidemic and the missionizing of our people, including the taking of many of our children to residential schools, decimated our population. Once the gold rush had begun, an influx of people invaded our territory by the time it ended, fa*mers had their eyes on our fertile lands. We were not fa*mers in the sense that the Europeans understood fa*ms and their ways conflicted with our land uses. Forest Fire Training Courses Jan – Feb 2019 Pre-Register ONLY ASETS Chase office Drs Chief Ron Marianne Ignace booksigning Q A January 31 2019 at TRU Kamloops Call Expression Interest Hiring Committee Chief Finance Officer Nov 2018 Memo Education Dept – If out of office please leave a message Oct 31 2018